Bachelor of Ministry
The degree of Bachelor of Ministry has multiple elements. Service, Leadership, Organizing, and Activating are major components of this educational path. A student should select courses from the different elements to arrive at 130 semester hours required as graduation credits. The student’s specific description after graduation will depend on the composition of the course selections. Therefore, every student will get help in choosing courses that take the student intends to go, unless the student already knows details of his or her direction or the students have heard from God and must follow God’s strict direction in choosing the specific courses. The general pool of courses serves for Bachelor of Ministry and Bachelor of Theology students, hence, a student’s specific description after graduation is a reflection of the specific courses taken.
Bachelor of Biblical Studies
A bachelor's degree in Theology will involve 130 semester hours that can also be broken down into quarters. A budding theologian is a person who is particular about God’s plan for everything. Such God’s plan is contained in the Holy Bible. The theologian wants to hear the voice of God in every sentence in the Holy Bible. A holder of the degree Bachelor of Theology is at the foundation level of working with the voice of God. The student will be educated to comprehend the Holy Bible, use the content to affect the lives of those around him or her, and manifests an increasing desire to dig deeper. Hebrew-American studies constitute our flagship offering. A holder of the Bachelor of Theology degree already imbibed cohesion, critical thinking, and order in handling spiritual the antecedents pertaining to ministry. The general pool of courses serves for Bachelor of Ministry and Bachelor of Theology students; hence, a student’s specific description after graduation is a reflection of the specific courses taken.
Bachelor Degree in General Course Pool
Anointing of God, by God, and from God
This course covers the manifestations of God’s power in the performance of virtues among human beings, based on the Christ factor. Students will be able to express confidence in manifestations that appears to be God-centered versus human demonstrations.
Lydia’s House Church Paradigm
This course covers the complete ramifications of the church at Lydia’s house (Acts 16:40) along with the ripple effects for Lydia’s era and up to the 21st. Students will use Lydia’s model to sequence modern-day house churches as well as determine the consistency of such churches in the 21st century.
From Adam to Noah
This course covers the genealogy from Adam to Noah with a view to identifying trending tenets in the first world. Students will be able to pick out persons and events of interest in the Adam-to-Noah frame to serve as a sequencing tool for comprehending the post-flood world. The performance level in this course will be gauged with the second-lowest quarter of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
The Joseph Prison Experience
This course covers the travails of Joseph in the Egyptian prison, the physical and spiritual import of the experience, and the nuances of Joseph’s victory. Students will be able to apply lessons learned to their everyday lives as well as convey the lessons to other people.
Behind the Sermon Preaching
This course covers the backstage of pulpit, whats, hows, and whys of sermon preparation as well as extrapolations from various preaching simulations. Students will become aware of pre-preaching expectations, on-stage moments, and post-preaching outcomes for preachers and listeners.
Biblical Investigative Inquiry
This course covers intense research activity in which students follow the same process and methodology to delve into areas they are curious about. Each student must complete an article publishable by appropriate media (adjudged appropriate by Emmanuel University Writing Center).
Egypt Captivity to Promised Land
This course covers the period from the Pharaoh who does not know Joseph to the entry of Israelites into the geographic location labeled ‘Promised Land’. After taking this course, students should be able to convey not only the story of the exodus but the ramifications of diverse aspects of the journey. The performance level in this course will be gauged with the top half of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Gender Issues in God’s Service
This course covers the place of women in ministry, Christ’s position on women in ministry, and the positions humans take on the issue of women in ministry. Students will explore and assimilate similarities and dissimilarities.
Collaborative Ministry Dynamics
This course covers intra-organizational team dynamics, inter-organizational collaboration, leadership, and followership in collaborative ministering. Students will identify their individual strengths in the context of collaborative ministry roles.
The Letter and the Spirit
This course covers the written and unwritten essence of God. 2nd Corinthians 3:6. Students will learn the place of the letter and the place of the Spirit in growing and developing Godliness.
Land of Modern Captivity
This course covers the geography of proverbially shackled human sojourn under the influence of jurisprudence, subtle social infusion, or systemic operationalization. Students will become aware of the nuances of societal operations that hold sojourners captive in specific geographic locations in the 21st Century.
Grounding and Firm Foundations
This course covers the concept of grounding in physics to explain laying a firm foundation for human and material entities, which is an offshoot of spirituality. Students will learn the analogous similarity between physical electricity and spiritual electricity as foundations.
Human Versus God’s Celebrations
This course covers (a) the feasts God commanded and ordained, and (b) the feasts human beings imposed on themselves. Students will streamline these feasts and logically justify or nullify some or all of them. The performance level in this course will be gauged with the bottom half of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Christian Leadership Principles
This course covers leadership styles and how the styles influence ministry activities with a particular analysis of Christ’s style. Myers Briggs MBTI Personality Test will be used in this course. Students will test themselves with the styles to determine what their potential leadership styles could be.
Growing or Dying Church
This course covers the symptoms of growth and stagnation of a church. A study of the living and dying of a church will be two-pronged: (a) physio-structural, and (b) psycho-spiritual. Students will become conscious of the antecedents that manifest in their churches and be able to tell if the church is living, dying, going to live, or going to die.
The Spirituality of God’s Relationship
This course covers the personal connectedness with the Almighty God. The spiritual expectations on self-disclosed followership of God and the actual relationship modalities. Students should be able to convey the tenets to others after taking the course.
The Blood, The Water, The Word
This course covers the connection between the Blood, the Water, and the Word in which instances the Blood refers to the Calvary incident; the water refers to the Calvary incident, and the Word refers also to the Calvary incident. Students will be able to understand the appearance of any of the three words in other secular or spiritual text and comprehend beyond the regular usage and abusage of the three words.
Theological Paradigms
This course covers will cover the different domains human beings have created upon which the knowledge of God has been propagated. Students will be able to determine the difference between religious (human) and spiritual (God’s) paradigms.
The James 5:14 Mentality
This course covers the power of this Bible verse and the possible reason the content could constitute the primary influence of a religious grouping. Students should be able to conduct an analysis of the pros and cons of this verse and the potential effect on propagators and condemners of the content.
From Noah to Egypt Captivity
This course covers a continuum of generations spanning the spiritual, physical, psychological, geographical, biological, social, cultural (a) story, comprehension, and spiritual ramifications of Noah’s Ark to (b) the life and times of Israelites while they were enslaved in Egypt. Performance level in this course will be gauged with the two middle halves of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Contractual Access to God
This course covers elements of the right to access God. Human beings claiming to have the right to interact with God would need proof of their agreement with God. That contractual obligation must be clear if it exists. Students will become aware of the extent to which human beings have access to God.
Biblical Ethics and Morality
This course covers the theories of ethics and morality and relies on biblical truths to convey the standards expected of ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Students will not only become conscious of ethical and moral standards, be able to detect violations around them, and entrench biblical ethics and morality in the ministry or any organization in which they find themselves.
Knowing God
This course covers the names of God and how humanity may make connections with those names. Students will be sure of what they worship and be bold in expressing their faith under all circumstances.
West African Hebrews
This course covers the life, times, and timelines of Hebrew settlers on the West African Atlantic Coast. Students will develop a new curiosity that will lead to further explorations.
Music Principles and Practice
This course covers the fundamentals of music theory with advanced knowledge levels practice of the E, G, B, D, F as well as F.A.C.E. staff notation models. After taking this course, students will be able to read and write simple song scripts in staff notation.
Igbo Language
This course covers alphabets, words, names, and rudimentary numerals. Students will learn how to use these items to construct phrases and sentences as well as read and write texts in that language. Ambitious students will be able to pass the standard written and oral Igbo language administered by Alta Language Testing Board and by Emmanuel University Writing Center.
Anti-Semitism
This course covers (a) the theory of the migration of Shem’s bloodline (b) the travails of Shem’s offspring, (c) the specific acts of violence and violation perpetrated on Shem’s bloodline, and (d) the pro-Shem activism and push-back on the hate actions against Shemites. The performance level in this course will be gauged with the first quarter of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Christian Stewardship
This course covers the principles of accountability from the multiple perspectives of (a) keeping accounting records, and (b) using funds to execute God’s purposes, (c) holding the ministry (corporate) responsible for extending God’s arms to benefit humanity, and (d) holding individual ministry officials and servants accounting for every part of ministry funds they manage, and (e) ensuring ministry funds arising from general receipts from audiences do not inure to one individual. Students will enforce accountability among ministries, church leaders, and other managers of corporate religious organizations.
Christian Counseling
This course covers the principles of counseling as enunciated in the Holy Bible, following specific admonishments of God, instructions of Christ, and human counseling endeavors. Students following this route can become Counselors.
Christian Sociology
This course covers the human society in the first Christian era, how the society developed and functioned as well as how the Christian people structured their society. Students will be able to identify the difference between the first Christian society and the 21st-century Christian society.
Healing of the Nations
This course covers (a) God’s prescriptions for human health, especially using God’s creations to achieve good health, and (b) matching God’s prescriptions with healthcare man’s processes to achieve good health. Students will have the requisite understanding of the roles of the school textbook healthcare process and God’s prescriptions for the healing of the nations.
Knowing Jesus Christ
This course covers the gamut of Christ-consciousness, Christ-nomination, and Christology. Students will become knowledgeable in the person and personality of Christ, especially based on the Book of Isaiah, the Synoptic Gospels, and Revelation.
Schooling Versus Educating
This course covers the principles of education and the art and science of ‘schooling’, exposing ‘schooling’ as a verb (telling and doing). Students will know the difference between an educated and schooled person.
Judaic Principles
This course covers specific antecedents of Judaism in the worship of Yahweh. Students will be able to tell the difference between those who shun AD worship of God and BC worship of God as well as the arguments each group relies on.
Evangelization: Christianization/Islamization
This course covers the modes and moods, and acts of Christian and Muslim fanatics who pursue an enlargement of their religious worship paradigm. Students will become conscious of the signals of toxicity or safety in the midst of any fanatical propagator. This course covers a multi-faceted comprehension of evangelism from the perspectives of Christians and Muslims with a view to revealing evangelization approaches. Students will become aware of the symptoms of religious propaganda in the two domains. The performance level in this course will be gauged with the second quarter of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
The Body: The Temple
This course covers the body-spiritual and body-physical ramifications of the Biblical mandate God placed on humanity regarding preserving the body. Elements of the course will include health and wellbeing, God’s prescriptions for human health, God’s creations and their health implications, and man’s destructive activities against the body, especially the heart. Students will become conversant with the connection between spiritual and biological aspects of the body. The performance level in this course will be gauged with the second quarter of Bloom’s Taxonomy.