Master of
Ministry

This course studies worship as cultural and liturgical formation, engaging liturgical theology and cultural-formation scholarship at a graduate level. It addresses worship leaders who plan services capably but have never accounted theologically for how liturgy shapes desire and belief over time. Students produce a graduate worship philosophy and a five-year worship formation plan grounded in liturgical-theology scholarship, defended before faculty — equipping them to lead worship that is intentional, not just functional.

This course treats organizational stewardship as a theological discipline — structures, budgets, and systems understood as expressions of gospel stewardship, not neutral management technique. It addresses administrators who can build a budget or org chart but have no theological account of why structure serves mission. Students produce a research-grounded five-year organizational strategic plan and budget framework, defended before faculty with an explicit theological rationale for its structures — grounding practical administration in real conviction.

Building on delivery and style, this course adds rhetorical theory and a guided study of historical master preachers as primary sources for developing a personal preaching voice. It addresses preachers with sound content whose delivery and rhetorical craft have never been measured against a historical or theoretical standard. Students preach, record, and rhetorically self-evaluate a sermon, and build a five-year preaching development plan and calendar defended before faculty — leaving with a preaching voice that is both authentic and grounded in real craft.

This course studies the theology and method behind personal evangelism — weighing proclamation, dialogical, and relational models against each other rather than teaching one technique. It addresses evangelists who share their faith effectively but have never examined or defended the theological rationale behind their own approach. Students build a research-grounded five-year personal evangelism strategy naming real people and settings in their own context, and defend its methodological rationale before faculty. By the end, students evangelize with both conviction and a clear, defensible account of why their chosen method fits their ministry setting.

This course engages pastoral theology as a discipline in its own right — the historic “cure of souls” — through primary and contemporary pastoral-theology scholarship. It addresses pastors whose sense of calling and risk of burnout have never been examined against this historical discipline. Students produce a research-grounded five-year pastoral ministry plan that includes a personal self-care covenant, grounded in the cure-of-souls literature and defended before faculty — pairing pastoral longevity with real scholarly grounding.

This course engages missiological theory — paradigm shifts and contextualization debates — behind current mission strategy, rather than simply adopting current models. It addresses mission strategists who use popular models without understanding the theory behind them. Students produce a research-grounded five-year missions mobilization plan connecting their own church to an unreached people or region, defended before faculty with explicit missiological rationale — grounding mobilization in real strategic thinking.

This course requires a theology of technology and digital culture, producing a research-grounded technology strategy rather than a production plan alone. It addresses leaders adopting digital tools without a theological account of how technology shapes attention, community, and worship. Students produce a research-grounded five-year church technology plan with an explicit theological rationale, defended before faculty — treating technology as a tool to be stewarded deliberately, not adopted by default.

This course engages family-systems theory and the theological ethics of marriage at a graduate counseling level. It addresses family ministers who apply techniques without a research-grounded theology of marriage, singleness, and family systems behind them. Students produce a research-grounded five-year family ministry plan with marriage, parenting, and crisis-care components, defended before faculty — equipping leaders to serve families in crisis with both compassion and real theological grounding.