This course explores the roles and expectations of a pastor, covering key ministry tasks such as leadership development, baptisms, weddings, funerals, child dedications, the Lord’s Supper, and church discipline. It emphasizes compassion, hope, and spiritual direction in pastoral care. The course also examines the nature and importance of fellowship in the Church, principles for leading and engaging in small groups, and biblical teachings on the Church, communion, and baptism.
Consideration of how to preach and teach and how to develop sermons and teachings. Special attention will be given to the use of hermeneutics in message preparation. Special emphasis will be put on the motivations and methods of church discipline.
In this study the weapons and armor of the Christian soldier will be considered with respect to engaging in spiritual warfare. Special attention is given to the reality of the spirit world and the Christian's response to it. Special emphasis will be out on the theology surrounding the identity and activity of angels and demons (angelology and demonology).
A systematic study of the doctrine of God (theology proper) and the doctrine of man (anthropology). Special attention will be given to a study of "the world" (expanding on the study of man by extending it into the fallen realm in which he lives.) The Gospels and Jesus' teachings will serve as the specific source of the study.