11 - Ministry in the Marketplace (COM930)
Instructor: Dr. Ed Delph
(3 Credits)
Class Description
For a long time now there has been an urgent need for a biblically correct-spiritually accurate course for equipping students and learners how to synthesize their future vocation with their Christian ministry. Ministry in the Marketplace is that course. This three-credit hour course is a modern-day primer that equips and prepares Christian students for their work of the ministry in their vocation and in culture.
In this course, students are empowered to be comfortable being salt and light in their future vocation. Students will understand their career is their ministry, and their ministry is their career. Students receive insight and clarity about how God builds communities and how to create opportunities in their community. Students are equipped to apply Ministry in the Marketplace values and strategies to find a need and meet it in their community. Students are empowered to engage and influence current culture and worldview toward a more Christian worldview in the marketplace creatively and positively.
Ministry in the Marketplace is a relevant, contemporary, inspiring, practical, and engaging course experience. The outcome of this course is that students and learners will never, ever see their vocation and their community the same way again. And they know what to do about it.
Course Objectives
- To enlighten students about how to synthesize their vocation with their Christian ministry.
- To activate students to be Christ-Centered ‘Difference Makers’ in their future or present vocation.
- To challenge students to be the presence of Christ in their vocation.
- To envision students who embrace the possibility of undeniable positive change in the current culture.
- To activate students to be ‘Solutionairies,’ solving societal problems and meeting needs in their area of influence.
- To motivate students to cultivate strategic alliances and mutual collaborations in and with government, education, media, church, and business for uplifting a community.
- To expose students to the what’s, why’s, who’s, and how’s of engaging the community in a Christ-like manner.
- To equip students to create positive outcomes, not just output, for a successful and significant vocational and community experience.