MA in Pastoral Ministry

PATH 539 Church Growth & the Equipping Pastor (CRN: 1520 )

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Professor: Tim Madding
Date: Sep 17-21, 2023
Location: Oklahoma Conference, Oklahoma City, OK

Course Description:

This course is an examination of church growth principles with a special emphasis on the role of the pastor as an equipper.  The student will be exposed to the harvest potential of unchurched people, as well as receiving exposes to a biblical theology of reaching the lost. The course will further expose the student to friendship evangelism, helping plateaued and declining churches become revitalized, church planting, the role of the laity and the usage of spiritual gifts.