Master of Arts in Christian Formation

The ministry arts of teaching, spiritual guidance, youth ministry, and worship are the concentrations within this program. AMBS provides a context, a process, and tools to study and to engage in the church's ministries of personal and communal formation and transformation.

We affirm God's call to collaborate with the Spirit in the work of sponsoring growth in the life of discipleship. The underlying assumption is that formation and transformation are ultimately God's gifts to us. Further, we claim that the confession that Christ is being formed in us points to the essential content of those processes (2 Cor. 4:5-11).

The program is not designed to prepare pastoral leaders, although people already engaged in pastoral ministry will certainly benefit from it. It is expected that students who complete the program will be enabled to participate in several dimensions and settings of teaching, spiritual guidance, ministry with youth, and ministry through worship as special forms of the work of the church.

The Master of Arts in Christian Formation has four concentrations:

• Christian Spirituality
• Teaching Ministry
• Worship
• Youth Ministry

For more information, see the AMBS Catalog, pages 77 to 82.