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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on issues of importance to Christian leaders, such as biblical models of leadership, styles of leadership, principles of leadership, skills for leadership, recruiting and training of leaders, multiple staff relations, conflict resolution, goal setting, problem solving, dealing with change, and contextualization. Offered: yearly. Damon, Walston
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on personal and professional development of ministers. Lectures and assignments examine the pastor's identity and calling in terms of ethics, habits in several key areas, and transitions. Participants also consider the various tasks assigned to pastoral ministers in a typical church. The course meets concurrently with other Person & Work classes (MIN 3520 and MIN 3530). Some sessions are team-taught by professors from these four areas. Offered: alternate years. Walston
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a basic overview of what is expected of youth ministers with regard to their person and task. Topics covered include family-based youth ministry, time management, personal devotional life and ethics, finances, programming options, and contextualization of ministry to a variety of settings and multicultural needs. The course meets concurrently with other Person & Work classes (MIN 3510 and MIN 3530). Some sessions are team-taught by professors from these four areas. Offered: alternate years. Jerpbak
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on practical approaches to designing music and worship programs in the church. Management techniques from ministry and musical standpoints are explored. The course offers a basic overview of what is expected of music ministers with regard to their person and task. Methods of leading children, youth, and adults in music ministry are included. The course meets concurrently with other Person & Work classes (MIN 3510 and MIN 3520). Some sessions are team-taught by professors from these four areas. Offered: alternate years. Dunbar
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3.00 Credits
This course seeks to provide students with beginning skills in public speaking with a view toward preaching. It is based on the assumption that preaching of the Word is one of the primary means by which God reveals Himself and His salvation to contemporary human beings. Good listening and evaluation skills are stressed, along with a primary course goal of developing confidence in the oral method of communication. The course aims to improve students' understanding of the nature and history of preaching, as well as principles for preparing and delivering sermons and other talks. Students speak in class a number of times, with increasingly complex assignments culminating in the presentation of textual and topical sermons. Offered yearly. Walston, staff
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the currently advocated methods and principles used to establish new congregations and to lead existing congregations to health. Included is a study of demographics designed to reveal the needs and trends of people, as well as an examination of the theory, theology, and practice of church growth in the American context. Offered: alternate years. Damon, Staff
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the life of a new church from conception to birth. Students will learn principles and methods to encourage a healthy pregnancy and delivery. Special emphasis will be given to cross-cultural church planting. There will be lecture, discussion, and presentations. Offered: alternate years. Divino 97
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to biblical and psychological principles of counseling that help ministers attempting to give primary care to people experiencing a wide range of ordinary human problems. Special emphasis is placed on the appropriate role of pastoral ministers in such intervention. Offered: alternate years. Walston
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2.00 Credits
This course is the second part of the Homiletics series. The course builds on the basic skills and methods of sermon construction learned in the first semester. During this term there are lectures and discussion on planning a preaching program, developing a systematic filing system, and considerations for reaching various cultures through preaching. Emphasis is placed upon the preparation and delivery of expository, inductive, and narrative sermons, and involves preaching in class and in local churches. Prerequisite: MIN 3600. Offered: alternate years. Walston
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1.00 Credits
Under the supervision of Crossroads College faculty members, students choose an Old and/or New Testament text(s), conduct an exegetical study of that text(s) in its original language (Hebrew or Greek), reflect on its theological implications for today, develop an exposition based on that text, deliver that exposition in a Crossroads College chapel service (as a "senior sermon") or other appropriate format, and plan a worship service for that occasion. Offered: yearly. Walston
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