Please note: Enrollment in this course is contingent upon approval by SIBI, as outlined in the Learning Plan provided upon enrollment. Applicants must complete the acceptance process before payment. This course is residential.
Second Term
Class is Tuesday and Thursday from 9:20-12:00 (CDT/CST)
Course Description:
Church Growth is a study of the types of growth found in healthy, dynamic and growing families of God’s people. This course will continue the student’s preparation for the work of ministry, including discussions of the character, content, challenge, and opportunities for both the minister and the local church.
Each student should be inspired to possess a greater love for and commitment to local church work. Further, they should be inspired to want to give their life fully to working in the local church for His glory and not their own. And, each student should be inspired to understand that the key to reaching this goal is to (1) Preach the Word and (2) Love the people!
My prayer is that each student will have impressed on their heart of the seriousness, importance, and awesome responsibility of preaching and being a minister.
We want to invite the student into the real world of preaching and being a preacher who is equipped for real-life situations as well as the regular (sometimes mundane) responsibilities of being a minister.
We hope to instill in each student confidence and some expertise as he enters the work of a local church, giving him the ability to say, “I know what to do, and I know something about how to do it!”
- Teacher: John Knox