online christianministries program
This online Christian Ministries program at North Greenville University leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree in Christian Ministries (BACM). One of the key features of the Christian Ministries program is its emphasis on knowledge and action. It is essential that Christians, who are all ministers of the Gospel of Jesus in varied capacities, both know the key tenets of the faith as well as communicate them in a winsome way to the world at-large. In order to tailor a student’s education to his or her specific goals, the BACM offers three concentrations: Biblical Studies, Ministry, and Theology. These concentrations allow students to focus on their various aims in education, while simultaneously encouraging academic rigor in their respective fields.
The BACM offered by NGU Online at North Greenville University seeks to impart the same high-caliber education offered by NGU’s traditional campus program of study in Christian Studies. It has intentionally used much of the course allotments to ensure that NGU’s culture and values are inculcated during a student’s tenure in NGU Online. In an effort to ensure this high quality, Christ-centered education, the BACM requires that students complete 48 hours in a core curriculum of study that teaches them what Scripture is, how it fits together in the one story of God, historical developments in crucial doctrines in the Church, and practical guidance in areas of ministry (world missions, evangelism, biblical spirituality, and ministry practica). Considering that NGU Online seeks to serve adult professionals, the BACM has been structured to provide future career guidance to its participants within the already existing program structures. The primary way this career guidance is achieved is by offering concentrations (or foci). Concentrations allow students in the BACM to focus on a particular area of interest that will serve their future goals of ministry.
Biblical Studies For students who want to focus their studies on the biblical languages of Greek and Hebrew, this concentration is ideal for those wishing to go on to graduate studies at a seminary or divinity school. BACM electives will be used to hone a student’s skills in biblical exegesis in the original languages. Three courses of biblical Greek and three courses of biblical Hebrew, syntax, and grammar prepare students to take exegesis courses that utilize the original languages to correctly interpret passages.
Ministry For students who desire to go into vocational ministry, this concentration offers students a wide
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array of practical studies in pastoral and ministry- related subjects. Upon successful completion of this concentration, students will have been introduced to concepts and pastoral implications for biblical counseling, children’s ministry, executive roles, pastoral roles, and world missions. Students may continue their education through graduate work—though there is no language requirement in this concentration.
Theology For students who want to focus on various doctrinal concerns and application, this concentration allows students to use their BACM electives in the areas of apologetics and worldview, biblical theology, ethics, history, and systematic theology. Upon successful completion of this concentration, students will have been introduced to various schools of theological interpretation, as well as how to utilize the discipline of biblical theology in hermeneutics to inform apologetics, ethics, and systematic theology. This concentration will also help prepare students for further graduate studies—though there is no language requirement in this concentration.
The Student Learning Objectives of the BACM are to enable students to:
1. Articulate a foundational knowledge of the Christian faith;
2. Analyze and integrate primary and secondary sources of biblical, ethical, historical, and theological thought;
3. Apply Christian theology to everyday life;
4. Master proper academic standards in writing and critical thinking skills;
5. Demonstrate competencies for variegated spheres of ministry— biblical studies, children’s ministry, church planting, international missions, non-vocational ministry, pastoral ministry, and youth ministry;
6. Apply content and skills to his or her career and develop a professional identity;
7. Articulate and defend how they may become difference-makers in his or her chosen vocation and realm of service or ministry.
The faculty in Christian Ministries are proven in both the academy as well as in practice. The courses are taught by well-respected and experienced individuals in their respective fields who are integrally involved in their local churches. This ensures that the education given in BACM is first practiced in the real world— thereby, allowing the academy to inform practice and
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