What if the learning leader and students really opened their minds and hearts to all that God may want to do during this course? Suppose God wanted to launch a life-changing transforming movement of faith, fervor, and devotion that we cannot now even imagine through the experiences of this course.
Therefore, the vision statement begins with a call to the learning leader and students to put themselves at the disposal of God, the Holy Spirit. Let us make ourselves His—His if He wants to set us on fire for Christ. His if the Lord chooses to bless us with His silence. His if He seems to hide beyond the clouds beyond the reach of our prayers (Lam 3:44). His even if God’s silence can become for us a time of fertile emptiness in which we examine ourselves, submit to transformation, and imagine new beginnings. Let us be open to all the possibilities of grace.
While we look for whatever bonuses and blessings God has for us beyond the printed page and our dialogues, we set these objectives for this course.
What should the students come to KNOW?
The content and knowledge aims (cognitive aims) of this course include:
What should the students inwardly EMBRACE (BE)?
The affective aims of the course include:
What should students, as a result of and in response to this course, DO?
The psychomotor objectives of the course include:
This module contributes to the development of the following abilities as defined in the U.S. Sourcebook for Ministerial Development.
CN19—Ability to identify and explain the main characteristics of the nature of God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Human Person, Sin, Salvation, the Christian Life, the Church and Sacraments, and Eschatology
CN23—Ability to identify and explain the Doctrine of Holiness from a Wesleyan perspective
CP21—Ability to envision, order and participate in contextualized theologically grounded worship and to develop and lead appropriate services for special occasions (i.e. weddings, funeral, baptism, and Lord’s Supper)
CH6—Ability to pursue holy character (Christlikeness) by practicing Christian formation and the classic spiritual disciplines as means of grace
CH7—Ability to locate, understand, and use the resources for individual and corporate spiritual formation
CH8—Ability to take responsibility for his or her own continuing spiritual development
CH9—Ability to apply understanding of his or her ongoing developmental needs across the life course of the minister to the pursuit of holy character
CH10—Ability to demonstrate a realistic self-understanding including personal strengths, gifts, weaknesses, and areas of needed growth