D.Min. Ministry Leadership Concentration

The Ministry Leadership concentration is built for pastors, faith-based nonprofit leaders, and other ministry leaders who are faithfully leading and serving in a variety of contexts. It will grow your leadership skills, deepen your spiritual formation, and prepare you for your next season of ministry. Through this concentration you will explore contemporary issues affecting the church, learn new ways to communicate the gospel, strengthen your resilience in ministry, and develop practices that move your ministry forward. 

Students will be equipped and formed with new knowledge, skills, and relationships that will impact their ministries for years to come. Students in this cohort will have the opportunity to learn from leading scholar-practitioners including Dr. John Dickson, Dr. Amy Peeler, Dr. Mark Yarhouse, and others. For the specific course requirements view the curriculum page.

Courses include:

Healthy Spiritual Leadership - This course is designed to provide the busy pastor and Christian leader an opportunity to reflect on their work-life balance by examining their ministry and leadership activities. The student will reflect on their mission, calling, as well as their capacity. The context of this self-focus will be their behavior to be their authentic self, pay attention to their soul, and desire to build a sustainable ministry on spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and relational dimensions.

Gender, Sexuality, and Spirituality - Spirituality, and its manifestation in the spiritual formation of individuals and communities, is most basically about relatedness to Christ and growth toward Christlikeness. Human sexuality has become one of the most, if not the most, divisive construct in the Evangelical Church. The terms sex, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, sexual identity, gender identity, LGBTQ+, and many more often evoke polarizing postures among Christians as we seek to understand their meaning and the implications of their meaning for people’s lives, our theologies, and our ministry practices. Culture wars intensify these postures within the church and between the church and society.

Advanced Preaching and Teaching - This course is an advanced study in the process of moving from the exegeted text to the message with a focus on creating expository sermons that effectively bridge to contemporary audiences. Building on foundational skills, this course will help students grow in their ability to organize exegetically sound sermons, to communicate clearly, and to engage diverse audiences.