5 Courses
Term 2 2022-2023
This course will introduce the student to basic principles of church leadership, church management, and parliamentary law. Through reading, observation, and reflection, the student will be prepared spiritually and practically to provide leadership in a local church.
This course will enable the student to gain a clearer understanding of the New Testament as a whole, as well as its parts. Students will gain factual knowledge that can be passed along so that all can better know the Jesus of the New Testament and share His good news with others. The student will gain knowledge about the structure, content, historical, cultural, geographical, and literary characteristics of the New Testament as a whole and each of the individual books. The student will also explore his or her own use of Scripture as a tool for personal and corporate discipleship.
A Theology of the Church includes an overview of the various biblical images of the church, which in turn necessitates an understanding of historical and theological developments and adaptations of these biblical images. The course includes exercises where the student will critically reflect upon life in the church as he or she currently experiences it in light of these biblical, historical and theological values. The goal is for the student, as a ministry leader, to become a facilitator of a biblically informed, culturally relevant, spiritually growing, reproducing, missional congregation.
Term 2 2022-2023
A major objective of this degree is to provide a special emphasis on integrating scripture and biblical theology with pastoral leadership, worship, evangelism and discipleship, a deeper understanding of the church, and spiritual formation. Class work in each of the specific MA courses will include the opportunity to design assignments around some ministry need or theme each student will choose.
In order to further facilitate the program objectives, the final course in the MAPT program is a Capstone Project in which students will revise, compile and/or create a set of ministry resources oriented around a particular need or theme they had earlier identified at the beginning of (or during) the program. This project will involve the processing, assimilation, and compilation of principles, insights and methodologies gleaned from the integration of class work and ministry involvement in the core curriculum of the degree. The completion of this project will be your final “class.”