Program Objectives

• Provide a sketch overview of Christian ministry practices, some of its perspectives, and the attitudes needed to answer a ministry call.
• Provide a basic understanding of apostolic and prophetic foundations as scripture’s organic root to affix their important legacy to contemporary Christian ministry and their adaptations to the modern world.
• Point student’s consciousness away from strictly traditional evangelicalism to impress upon them the Bible’s organic foundations and the two mantles that authored them; namely the apostles and prophets showing how their absence contributed to the biblical church’s demise.
• Reinforce new creation essentials such as sanctification and redemption, and the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of Christian converts as a result of them.
• Differentiate between religion and redemption as well as culture versus Christianity or spirituality in general.
• Initiate and illustrate the student’s learning path from standard gift expression to office execution, to occupy, or work with those ministers that occupy a ministry office.
• Underscore the important distinctions between students’ private devotional service and public office service.
• Help students understand Jesus Christ, God’s Son as both Savior and sovereign, eternal and human.
• Introduce the fundaments of five-fold leadership as distinguished from Kingdom government and where the two meet and separate.
• Review standard ministry requisites such as spiritual gifts, prophecy, priestly service and more.