Our Doctor of Ministry is designed to enhance your practice of expository preaching. This professional degree for leaders in Christian ministry is intended for those in an ongoing ministry of preaching and teaching Scripture. Here are the goals you will achieve as a result of participating in this program:
Deeper understanding of the nature of expository preaching, informed by a biblical and practical study of expository preaching
Advanced competency in the preparation and delivery of expository sermons
Documented research skills, demonstrated by a fresh contribution to the practice of expository preaching through a doctoral dissertation or project
Expertise in advancing the ministry and practice of expository preaching
Professional growth in ministry dimensions such as personal spiritual formation, biblically balanced ministry, church renewal and revival, and evangelism and global missions
Greater personal spiritual maturity through increased love for God, Scripture, and persons
Unionite Article - Spring 2010
The program combines distance
learning with important sessions at the
Stephen Olford Center. But the structure
also allows busy pastors to attend to
church and family needs.
"We are required to spend only four
weeks away from our ministry positions a
year," says first-year student Phil Mitchell,
pastor of First Baptist Church Adamsville,
Tenn. "We have full-time jobs. We all
have families."
Unionite Article - Spring 2010