The Department of Missions will provide students with the understanding and competence to apply Biblical principles cross-culturally. Students will integrate that understanding with practical skills that they might plant, grow, and lead a local congregation, plus effectively train and motivate national leadership on the mission field. Validate biblical principles in cross-cultural ministry and family relationships.
Attention is given to recent developments in church-mission strategy and to future projections.
It is designed to lay a foundation for other mission courses and also to prepare the student to teach missions in a local church. This course prepares students to confront adherents of the world's religions with the truth claims of the gospel. Because of man's predisposition to reject the gospel, students will integrate their theological training and develop a strategy to overcome both the spiritual and practical obstacles. Special attention is given to a presuppositional approach, though students will be introduced to alternatives. This course focuses on a study of God's purpose and activity as revealed through Israel's responsibility to the nations in the Old Testament and the mandates entrusted to the church in the New Testament.