Pastoral Theology Courses (PTH)
Pastoral Theology courses are designed to equip the student with a philosophy of ministry as well as practical skills in the major task areas of pastoral ministry.
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PTH 504 - Discipleship Ministry (3 hr.) The basis for the church’s mission will be explored and its interface with Disciple Making Ministry. The course will trace principles and methods of developing people starting with Jesus to the early church and finally to contemporary applications. |
| 507 - Small Group Ministry (2 hrs) |
| 508 - Small Group Ministry (3 hrs) |
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PTH 510 - Spiritual Formation and Personal Development (1 hr.) Designed to provide spiritual formation and community through personal and group exploration of classic spiritual disciplines, specifically for those within the counselling program. Prerequisites: MC Students Only |
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PTH 511 - Spiritual Formation and Personal Development (1 hr.) Designed to provide spiritual formation and community through personal and group exploration of classic spiritual disciplines, specifically for those within the counselling program. Prerequisites: MC Students |
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PTH 520 - Communicating the Bible (3 hrs.) This seminar will provide students with the opportunity to study the preparation and delivery of biblical sermons. It will explore the nature of biblical relevance and the uniqueness of the biblical message in our noisy world of competing ideologies. It will also provide a framework for extracting ideas from the biblical text with the view of communicating them effectively to today's audience. |
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PTH 531 - The Leadership Summit (3 hrs.) The course is designed to maximize the Willow Creek Leadership Summit experience by taking the student through a number of supplementary learning exercises. This course will assist the student to grow in effectiveness as a leader through the following exercises: attending the conference, reading relevant material, undertaking reflective writing, and dialoguing and planning with other church leaders. |
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PTH 532 - Coaching Natural Church Development (3 hrs.) This course will help the student to gain the knowledge and confidence necessary to lead a church through the Natural Church Development (NCD) cycle. The course incorporates the official NCD training offered by The Leadership Center/Willow Creek Canada. |
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PTH 533 - Missional Church Leadership (3 hrs.) A study of the way in which the needs of the family are met within the church or other 'family' work contexts. The student will study a biblical, philosophical, theoretical, developmental, strategic, administrative and research approach in understanding and addressing these needs. |
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PTH 560 - Theology and Pastoral Dimensions of Worship (2 hrs.) The student will study and discuss worship in its various dimensions including biblical foundations, theology of worship, history of worship, contemporary worship and the relationship of worship to music and other areas of personal life and local church ministry. |
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PTH 591 - Church Planting Foundations (3 hrs.) This course takes the planter, existing pastor, or mother church pastor on a journey through the NT establishing the foundational elements that qualify a plant to be a "church" plant and not just a new sociological or cultural entity. It locates and articulates biblical understandings of such things as the local church's mission and design, the role of the Holy Spirit and faith, the evangelism and equipping imperatives assigned to the church, functional body life, and correlates these to the realities in an emerging fledgling church. |
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PTH 600- Pastoral Formation (3 hrs.) This course deals with the theology and methodology of pastoral formation. It is designed to help shape the student into an effective biblical pastor - a pastoral team member and leader who can be used of God to help produce spiritual formation and leadership development. It seeks to further the pastoral formation process by immersing the student in biblical principles of pastoral ministry and applying those principles to the calling of pastorship within contemporary culture. |
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PTH 603 - Homiletics (3 hrs.) The student will study the preparation and delivery of expository sermons with in-class preaching and evaluation. Videotape feedback will form a major component of evaluation. |
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PTH 605 - Pastoral Counselling (3 hrs.) An introduction to basic counselling skills and theory for pastoral counsellors. Emphasis placed on crisis theory and intervention. |
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PTH 606 - Theology of Work (3 hrs.) Participants will develop a biblical theology of work that incorporates a person’s various kinds of work into the Christian’s vocation and enables a follower of Jesus to worship and minister within the occupational and other work contexts. Work stories in Scripture, as well as consideration of the Creation and Redemption mandates will form the foundation for spirituality in a person’s diverse workplaces. Case studies will assist students to discern the implications and applications of these principles within their occupational settings and an individualized plan for Kingdom influence in that setting will be an intended outcome. |
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PTH 611 - Spiritual Formation for Leaders (3 hrs.) Overviews the history of Western Christian spirituality and current faith development research. Aims to enrich personal development through the practice of select traditional spiritual disciplines. Emphasis is placed on how to impart these understandings and abilities to other people. |
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PTH 613 - Evangelism and Faith Formation (3 hrs.) This course enables the student to develop skill in helping people come to a relationship with Jesus Christ and to develop personal and corporate means of making disciples out of those who respond in faith. We will discover how to make evangelism a way of life and how to connect new believers into the life of the church so that they can progress in the development of their faith. The class will emphasize sharing the Gospel in the Canadian context with consideration given to the plurality of faiths and contexts in our mosaic culture. Beginning with the adventure of the earliest Christians to the latest 21st Century models of evangelism we will examine how the unchanging story impacts lost people in ever changing contexts. |
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PTH 615 - Marriage and Family Counselling (3 hrs.) Provides an overview of the major models of marriage and family counselling and assessment tools. This course will combine cognitive behavioural and family systems theory in a Christian framework. |
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PTH 616 - Marriage Enrichment (3 hrs.) This graduate course in Marriage Enrichment is designed to train students in the theory and skills necessary to conduct a marital enrichment program in Church or community settings. The course will combine significant experiential learning, lectures, readings and discussion. Students will learn a specific model of research based marriage enrichment (Christian PREP: The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program), will receive training in the Prepare-Enrich Inventories, and learn how to implement a Marriage Mentoring program. The course is offered for 2 or 3 sem. hrs credit and cross listed as either a Pastoral Theology course (PTh 616) or Counselling course (Clg 616). |
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PTH 621 - Transitional Pastoral Ministry (3 hrs.) The purpose of this course is to equip and enable present or prospective transitional pastors to facilitate meaningful and positive change in local churches during the senior pastoral transition process. |
| PTH 626 - Advanced Pastoral Counselling (3 hrs.) |
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PTH 630 - Growing Healthy Churches for the 21st Century (3 hrs.) This course aims to explore the theology and methodology of growing healthy churches for the 21st Century. It will examine various church growth principles currently advocated by the church growth movement that are intended to produce relevant, strategic, and successful church. It will prepare the student to evaluate the many strategies with the goal in mind of helping the student recognize those principles that lead to growing healthy churches that effectively worship God, build up the saints, and reach the lost. It will also provide the tools necessary to help the student to discern between those methods that are the direction of the Holy Spirit to prepare the church for the 21st Century and those that are merely the church’s accommodation to culture. |
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PTH 631 - Dialoging with the Emergent Church (3 hrs.) This course will deal with the challenges and opportunities that the movement usually known as the Emerging Church presents to the Evangelical Church in Canada. The assigned readings and lectures will explore and analyse the core issues that define the Emerging Church Movement. We will also identify that cluster of distinctives that define Pentecostalism as one facet of evangelicalism and the means whereby this movement interfaces with the Emergent Church. The course will seek to understand the challenges the Pentecostal church faces in light of models and theologies of ministry found in the Emerging Church. It will also explore the opportunities that Pentecostals have in revitalizing the existing church in response to critiques posited by the Emerging Church Movement. |
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PTH 660 - Spiritual Resources in Counselling (3 hrs.) Explores the role of spiritual disciplines and resources for emotional healing. Topics will include prayer, worship, and the use of the Bible in counselling. The role of the church in providing support and accountability will be examined. |
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PTH 762 - Preaching Laboratory (3 hrs.) This class will help the student improve his or her skill in preaching the Bible through provision of multiple mentored opportunities. The student should view this class as a laboratory experience designed to assist his or her development through a variety of exercises and processes. Prerequisite: PTH 603 |
| PTH 766 - Preaching and the Emerging Church (3 hrs.) |
