CMS 4250 Biblical Formation on Location Making Disciples
The course gives students a first-hand engagement with the concrete world of the Bible. It presupposes that the Bible's own self-description defines its goal: form a disciple of Jesus' way of being in the world, and not to teach ideas. Students travel to the Holy Land where the biblical characters lived out their relationship with God. No other pedagogue is capable of the level of biblical formation than having a firsthand and embodied experience with the Bible. Because the course engages both the mind and the body, it has the greatest potential for life transformation: walking with others in ancient Israel and the Greco-Roman and Jewish world in the footsteps of Jesus and the early Jewish disciples. In addition, students will present a Senior Portfolio. Along with a self-assessment of their intellectual development, their formation as a disciple of Jesus from beginning to end, and their ministry skill set. The portfolio also includes a final program integration project born from the experience of the course.
Offered
Spring