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only for students with more than 36 hours of study completed. A maximum of
four hours is permitted.
IT 790 Senior Seminar
4 hours
The Senior Seminar is meant to be an interdisciplinary experience in which
students conduct research in either a field of their special interest or a general
topic selected by faculty leading the seminar. Students will be encouraged to
critically reflect upon a topic from a biblical, historical or theological
perspective. Students will share the results of their research in a paper
presentation in a seminar format. (M.A.P.T., M.A.R. Core)
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT COURSES
MM 512 Issues in Biblical Leadership
4 hours
Through a case study approach, this course will examine the biblical view on
how leaders accomplish the five categories of management: planning
(determining vision and direction), organizing (organizational behavior), staffing
(selection and training), directing (leadership in supervision) and controlling
(evaluation and re-direction).
MM 630 Church Administration
4 hours
This course is a basic study of leadership as it relates to the organization and
administration along with the basic principles of stewardship and financial
planning for the congregation.
MM 631 Leadership
4 hours
This course equips students to develop a philosophy of leadership, based
upon a biblical, theological, and individual heritage of the student. This will
include both character and competency issues that the leader must know,
develop and apply within their context of ministry. Leadership is both about
being and doing, finding the balance, and knowing that leadership
development is a lifelong spiritual journey. (M.Div. Core)
MM 639 Spiritual Dynamics of Church Leadership
See course description under PM 639.
MM 650 Black Church Administration
See course description under BC 650.
4 hours
4 hours
MM 712 Technology in Ministry
4 hours
Modern technology offers tools that can assist the minister and the church. This
course will offer hands-on experience to enhance the work of research, study,
preaching, teaching, counseling, evangelism, ministerial record-keeping and
church administration.
MM 724 Communication and Conflict in the Church
4 hours
This course will provide an overall view of communication and the process of
conflict resolution in the administration of the local congregation including
committees, boards and staff.
MM 729 Developing Leadership in Volunteer Organizations 4 hours
This course will focus on identifying spiritual gifts and skills among the laity,
equipping them for the tasks to which they have been called and facilitating
their involvement in ministry.
MM 763 Transformational Ministry and the Christian Leader 4 hours
This course will focus upon three questions that the Christian leader must
address in ministry: What does it mean to follow Christ What does it mean to
be formed in Christ-likeness What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit of
Christ These questions will be addressed as each relates to the Christian leader
and to the task of leading people toward Christian maturity. The course seeks to
motivate the Christian leader toward personal transformation as a servant of
God and toward being an agent of transformation in the lives of God’s people.
MM 790 Colloquium
MISSIONS AND EVANGELISM COURSES
4 hours
MS 501 Missional Church
4 hours
This course equips students to function in the local church with a missionary
mindset, presents the missional church as a primary paradigm, and lays a
biblical and theological foundation for its conceptualization (missio Dei). The
course promotes the ideal of the “apostolic” church. It also exposes students
to the worldwide context and encourages them to think and act like global
Christians. It explores issues related to world evangelization,
contextualization, missionary anthropology, world religions, the global
church, and history of missions. (M.Div. Core)
MS 611 History of Missions
4 hours
A survey of the expansion of Christianity from a global perspective. The course
emphasizes the Great Commission, the example of the New Testament Church,
critical factors and themes in each historical era, the genesis of Protestant
missions, influential missionaries, and the modern missionary movement
including the major missionary conferences of the 20th century.
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