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Meet Rockbridge Seminary student Kyle Bueermann as he talks about moving from a traditional seminary seated experience to online seminary.
Read more about Kyle and his experience at Rockbridge.
Starting with the March 2010 Term, course forum post instructions and reading questions that reference a specific course textbook page number will also show the Kindle location number as well (assuming the course textbook is also available for the Kindle).
The Kindle location number will be provided using this format:
K-1022
A growing number of Rockbridge Seminary students now use the Amazon Kindle and order their required textbooks in a Kindle format. Their feedback helped the seminary realize the need for adding the Kindle location number to assignments where a specific page number is referenced.
Rockbridge Seminary student Nils Smith (twitter) talks about his Rockbridge experience and being able to continue to serve in his ministry at San Antonio while going to seminary.
Why do we need these new churches? Shouldn’t we invest our efforts into continuing these other churches that have plenty of room to grow or some dying congregations that need a jolt of life breathed into them? …Continue reading Nils Smith’s reflections during his Church Planting Course at Rockbridge Seminary.
Rockbridge Seminary does many things differently from traditional seminary. Cutting a new path for fully online seminary education doesn’t stop at the learning model and method.
Students write their own scholarships at Rockbridge. Literally, they write blog postings and emails telling others about their experience and Rockbridge and the people who read that writing become students. When that happens the student making the referral gets $250 in tuition credit added to their account.
We’ve got some really complicated rules about how this must happen. Are you ready to read the fine print? Here it is:
Refer a friend or ministry colleague to Rockbridge Seminary. After he or she completes the first course, you’ll receive $250 tuition credit in your account. There is NO LIMIT to the number of referrals you can make. Four referrals pays for a class!
They just have to put your name in the “Referred by a RS student” blank on their application form.
One of our students has created his own seminary scholarship in a really big way.
I was praying for a long time regarding a seminary. I did not want to leave ministry because I was learning in that context and I also had a family to support. After much searching and prayer – I came across Rockbridge Seminary. It was a huge answer to my prayer. My wife and I knew that this was the right school for me (us). I can still be in ministry; learning and supporting my family. I also did not to take time away from the family as I went to a classroom for lectures and learning. I usually did my seminary work after the family went to bed and after I spent quality time with them. There were times when I did have research and work to do during the day and did not spend with the family, but most of it was done without sacrificing time with my wife and children. In fact, my oldest son continue reading…
Rockbridge Seminary Graduate Scott Mills talks about his favorite part of seminary being how he immediately applied what he learned from his projects and mentors to his ministry.
Are you thinking about going to seminary? Rockbridge Seminary is waiving the Application fee for the month of December. Apply now to begin your first seminary course in January 2010.
While it is a big commitment time wise to go to seminary, it doesn’t have to mean moving or leaving your current ministry. Learn where you serve, while you serve by going to seminary online. Rockbridge has no residential requirements, but you’ll be more connected to your faculty and fellow students than at a residential campus.
I interacted more in this setting than at an actual classroom. Rockbridge’s learner-focused approach really struck a chord with me.
-Moni Keo, Senior Pastor and RS student
Greenleaf Church (Fullerton, CA)
Based on feedback from students, major assignments in the course Christian Worldview and Theology were upgraded to the following:
Personal Worldview Statement
The purpose of this assignment is to help you expand your Christian worldview to address the most popular arguments being used by contemporary atheist writers:
- Christianity is a divisive and oppressive force (Dawkins)
- Christianity is not a rational enterprise (Harris)
- Christianity is an illusion of an illusion (Hitchens)
- Christianity poisons everything (Hitchens)
- Christianity is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children. (Hitchens)
To complete this assignment, pick one of the points above and write a 750-1000 word “Personal Worldview Statement” that addresses it from a Christian worldview perspective.
Worldview Interviews
The purpose of this assignment is to help you gain a better understanding of the worldviews of unchurched persons.
To complete this assignment, complete a 2000-3000 word paper that analyzes five interviews with unchurched individuals based on Mark Bertrand’s four starting points of Christian thought (Rethinking Worldview, chapter 2). Here are the guidelines for your interviews and paper:
- Develop an assessment tool of up to eight questions that will help you engage an unchurched person in conversation about Bertrand’s four pillars.
- Administer your worldview assessment tool to no less than 5 individuals whom you know as unchurched.
- Organize your paper using the following sections: “My Interview Questions and Approach,” “The Interviews,” “What I Learned about Worldviews,” and “Outreach Lessons for the Church.”
Christian Worldview and Theology is a required course in Rockbridge Seminary’s Master of Divinity program and an elective for the Master of Ministry Leadership program. The course will be offered next during the October 2009 Term starting October 27.
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