[dartuser]

Getting a PhD is like adding some specialized tools to your toolchest. Can you fix alot of problems with your car with a hammer, screwdriver, and a pair of pliers? Yeah ... but would you try to change a cylinder with only those tools? No.

Getting a PhD (learning the original languages, theology, and apologetics, etc.) allows you to tackle a wider range of problems.

Does it pay more? If you are consumed with the money then you wouldnt be in ministry in the first place.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Getting a PhD (learning the original languages, theology, and apologetics, etc.) allows you to tackle a wider range of problems.

I don't think an academic degree is absolutely necessary. Of course, I also have a tendency in general to disagree with the "obsession with experts" that we have these days, too.

I don't have a Ph.D, yet I have taught myself Hebrew well enough to use it in OT interpretation, and know theology well enough to discourse intelligently with those who do have such Ph.Ds. Really, it's all a matter of how serious you are about learning, not what letters you have after your name.