CE-401 Foundations of Christian Education

How does the church form the people who teach and lead it? Learn how leaders grow inside ministry, and the work of the mentor, the coach and the tutor.

This course reads two WWES books. The first explains why forming leaders belongs inside ministry, drawing on Scripture, research on learning and the principles of the indigenous church, and shows how cost and technology shape who can study. The second, Walking Alongside, turns to those who form others and asks where helping stops. Some of what the course describes may touch your own life; when a matter needs more than a course can give, turn to your church or a professional where you live.

What you will study

• The crisis in theological education, and Jesus and Paul as educators
• The biblical and theological foundations of education
• How adults learn, and what the indigenous church teaches us
• Cost, technology and the learner who also works
• Forming leaders worldwide, inside their ministry
• The mentor, the coach and the tutor: what each one does
• Tutoring at a distance and in study groups
• Where helping stops: limits, power and care

Course materials

• Understanding Missional Model of Theological Education, a WWES textbook
• Walking Alongside, a WWES textbook
• The Bible