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CIU Home > Seminary > Degrees > Ma-min

MA - in Leadership for Evangelism & Mobilization

Purpose

The MA in Leadership for Evangelism and Mobilization provides you with specialized knowledge and skills needed to extend the ministry of the church through evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. It prepares you for ministry on a church staff, on a church planting team, or with a parachurch organization.

Program 1 . . . . . . 60 hours Bible and Theology (24 semester hours) BIB 5112 Genesis to Song of Solomon: God's Plan of Creation and Redemption BIB 5113 Prophets: God's Message of Redemption and Judgment BIB 5132 Gospels: God's Means of Providing Redemption BIB 5133 Acts to Revelation: God's People Proclaiming Redemption Globally BIB 5410 Hermeneutics: Interpreting and Applying the Bible THE 6310 Systematic Theology 1 THE 6320 Systematic Theology 2 THE 6341 Theological Methods and Issues Worldview and Spiritual Formation (9 semester hours) ICS 5031 The Mission of God ICS 6024 Understanding Cultures and Worldviews MIN 5300 Foundations of Spiritual Formation Concentration (21 semester hours) GLS 6540 Strategies for Evangelism and Church Planting ICS 6075 Team Principles and Dynamics MIN 5310 Biblical Foundations of Leadership MIN 6412 Transformational Leadership MIN 6430 Prayer and Discipleship One of the following: EDM 6344 Transformational Bible Teaching; or, HOM 6300 Foundations of Biblical Preaching INT 6211, 6214 Pastoral Internship 1 & 4 Free Electives (6 semester hours) 2 courses from any alpha-designator

Program 2 . . . . . . 48 hours Bible and Theology (6 semester hours) BIB 6320 Old Testament Theology BIB 6330 New Testament Theology Worldview and Spiritual Formation (6 semester hours) ICS 6024 Understanding Cultures and Worldviews EDM 6170 Community and Church-based Spiritual Formation Concentration (21 semester hours) GLS 6540 Strategies for Evangelism and Church Planting ICS 6075 Team Principles and Dynamics MIN 5310 Biblical Foundations of Leadership MIN 6412 Transformational Leadership MIN 6430 Prayer and Discipleship One of the following: EDM 6344 Transformational Bible Teaching; or, HOM 6300 Foundations of Biblical Preaching INT 6211, 6214 Pastoral Internship 1 & 4 Free Electives (15 semester hours) 5 courses from any alpha-designator

Resident Faculty

Rick Higgins (D.Min., Columbia Biblical Seminary) Rick Higgins is the associate dean for ministry skills development and field education at Columbia Biblical Seminary & School of Missions. Before assuming that position in 1996, he served Columbia International University as dean of married students f... more