Pastoral Ministry - Nyack College

Pastoral Ministry from Nyack College is a Campus Bachelor Religious Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. Mission Statement The Nyack College Pastoral Ministry program stays true to our original trust by equipping men or women who wish to become pastors, church planters, evangelists, worship leaders or other ministry related professionals upon graduation, with or without further education. Our faculty embraces what we like to call \\\"the two handed warrior\\\" approach to education. Both spiritual formation and solid intellectual content are necessary for raising up the next generation of pastors and leaders. We strive to live by and encourage our students to pay close attention to the integrity of their heart and head as is encouraged in 1 Timothy 4:16, ?Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.? Program Goals The Pastoral Ministries program seeks to impart to its majors: 1. Knowledge of Scriptures, Biblical Theology, and Biblical Interpretation. This will be accomplished through Bible, Theology, and Interpretation courses and out-of-classroom learning venues sponsored or supported by the Pastoral Ministries Department. 2. Skill in preaching, leadership, pastoral counseling , evangelism, church planting, and the application of God?s word to contemporary environments. This will be accomplished directly through completion of courses in preaching, leadership, pastoral counseling, evangelism and church planting. In addition, students will participate in three internship courses and a senior seminar course. 3. Conviction about the necessity of personal holiness, biblically-based ministry, dependence on the Holy Spirit, and culturally relevant engagement in society. This will be accomplished directly through a Personal Spiritual Formation course, a Global Engagement course and indirectly through Pastoral Ministries elective courses and through interaction and advisement from the Pastoral Ministries faculty. Student Learning Goals By graduation, the Pastoral Ministries major?s knowledge, skills and convictions will reflect Nyack?s core values in the following way: Academically Excellent: Students will know introductory, background and thematic information about the sixty-six books of the Bible and the scholarly research methods through which this knowledge is generated. They will also know the Christian church?s historic doctrines, great thinkers and contemporary expressions, with which the students must interact. This knowledge will be assessed through various written exams and Bible interpretation papers assigned throughout the program and through a standardized exam in the senior year. Globally Engaged and Intentionally Diverse. Students will know the richness of the Christian heritage in all its global diversity. Students will also know how the Christian worldview compares and contrasts with competing worldviews in the global marketplace of ideas. This knowledge will be assessed through various written exams throughout the program and through a standardized exam during the senior year. Personally Transforming. Students will be able to communicate, whether in oral or written form, the ways in which they integrate the Bible?s teaching into their Christian worldview and into their personal daily living. This ability will be assessed through various Bible interpretation assignments, both oral and written, throughout the program that require this integration and through a professional interview in the senior year. Socially Relevant: Students will be able to connect properly the concerns of the ancient text to the concerns of the modern world, to think biblically in addressing contemporary problems, and to communicate how the gospel of Jesus Christ offers hope for positive change in the global community. These skills will prepare the students for ministerial, educational and other service professions. This ability will be assessed through various papers assigned throughout the program. View more details on Nyack College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Religious Studies courses.