Degree Requirements

The M.A.C.M. is a versatile professional degree that may be completed in residency or online. Because the degree requirements are so flexible, students are qualified for a vast array of ministry positions. Almost all graduates enter and remain in ministry, working as church planters, ministers in established churches, teachers, campus ministers and in other forms of Christian service.

The degree requirements for the Master of Arts in Christian Ministry are: 

1. Orientation:

        BIBM 602 GST Orientation

2. Tools, 9 hours:         

        BGRK 611, 612 Elementary New Testament Greek I, II          

        BIBL 627 Biblical Exegesis

3. Bible core, 9 hours:         

        BIBL 610 Advanced Introduction to the Old Testament          

        BIBL 620 Advanced Introduction to the New Testament          

        Text Selection, 3 hours

4. History and Theology, 9 hours:        

        BIBD 660 Introduction to Systematic Theology          

        BIBH 651 History of Christianity I         

        BIBH 664 Advanced Restoration History

5. Ministry, 12 hours:

        BIBD 603 Foundations of the Theology of Ministry      

        BIBM 629 Field Education or its equivalent (with the approval of the MACM advisor

        BIBM 648 Christian Spiritual Formation

        Ministry Electives, 3 hours

6. Electives, 9 hours

7. English Bible exam

8. E-portfolio review