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Learners have formed a Kingdom-oriented vision, mission, and values through prayer, study of scripture, dialogue with other people, and discernment of their ministry context. They have developed the skills needed to help people in their ministry context to collaboratively embrace and strategically apply a Kingdom-oriented vision that leads to multiplication of disciples.
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Learners shape their life and ministry based on a theology of the incarnation and a vision of God’s mission to the world. They conscientiously and persistently navigate cultural similarities and differences in order to interpret behaviours in other cultural contexts, appropriately adjust their own behaviour in life and ministry, and form meaningful relationships that create opportunities for communicating the gospel across cultural boundaries.
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Learners have broadened and deepened their theological understanding of the character and purpose of the church. Through their studies and service in their local church context, they have formulated a practical understanding of how the church operates and is governed, and they have developed the administrative knowledge and skills needed to strategically and responsibly lead a ministry and/or church.
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Learners have developed a theoretical and practical theology of holiness based on focused studies of wisdom, morality, and God’s character and actions in the Old and New Testaments. They pursue holiness with consistent appeals to God for wisdom and reliance on the presence and work of the Holy Spirit. God’s holiness and desire for his people to be holy shapes the learners’ character and they disciple other believers to pursue and grow in holiness.
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Learners cultivate personal lives and ministries characterized by hope, care, healing, and wholeness that grow from participation in God’s restoration of people and creation through the life, death, resurrection, and promised return of Jesus Christ.
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Learners consistently engage in a personal and corporate life of prayer as a posture of dependence upon God that is formed by biblical patterns and purposes of prayer. Their desire for and practice of prayer is passed on to others and prayer is a significant part of their discipling of and caring for others.
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Learners express their faith in terms of a specific context so that there is significant and appealing resonance with that context’s insiders while maintaining integrity with the Gospel message in a way that does not ignore but challenges and/or transforms narratives of the age.
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Learners have a clear understanding of God’s self-revelation as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and how God reveals his character and purposes. The learners have a broad and deep commitment to discipleship, which has enabled them to disciple and teach others through guiding them to increased awareness of and response to the self-revelation of God.
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Learners consistently engage scripture and theology to communicate the significance of God’s grace to people in any given context. Their reliance on the gracious will of the Father, gracious presence of the Son, and gracious work of the Spirit causes them to receive and extend grace and hospitality in their contexts as they form relationships that address personal, social, and relational sin.
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Learners’ personal lives and ministry work is shaped by a commitment to worship God, with the ability to lead others to worship God in and beyond church gatherings. Their desire for communal and individual worship of God permeates who they are and how they lead, causing others to similarly worship God communally and individually.
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Based on a theology of family, adoption, and friendship informed by the insights of psychology, sociology, and anthropology, learners have cultivated healthy personal and professional relationships. This has enabled them to personally form relationships that foster mutual commitment to and growth in discipleship, and create environments that receive people into the family of God, especially people who are in need of friendship and family.
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With a clear sense of the history of Mennonite Brethren churches, and the MB’s theological distinctives, learners can shape their ministry contexts informed by various movements, thinkers, and events in Christianity’s past and present. They can adapt the theologies and practices of particular movements, thinkers, and/or events in Christian tradition to cultivate and multiply communities who creatively worship and are formed by God.
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Learners’ scripturally rooted theologies of the past, present, and future of God’s creation, and God’s providential care for it, has heightened their sense of responsibility to be caring and fruitful stewards of God’s earth. Wherever they live and do ministry, their theological commitment to care for creation has resulted in an orientation of responsible stewardship.
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Learners have a theological framework for understanding and using technology and media. They assess their context and intended audience’s experiences, knowledge, values, and goals when they plan to communicate in off and online settings. They integrate education principles and practices with their understandings of how technology and media shape the way information is communicated and interpreted to engage their intended audiences in theological, ethical, and formative ways as a part of this assessment and planning.
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Learners pursue God’s mission of bringing restoration and wholeness to all nations. They excel at the personal and relational practice of pastoral care, showing skills informed and guided by the biblical revelation of God’s sacrificial love for his people. They reflect an authentic understanding of the appropriate expression of redemptive love and seek to practice this among people regardless of their social, economic, cultural, or ministry context.
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The learner exhibits curiosity and humility in the pursuit of biblical truth, skill with exegetical tools, and familiarity in learning the biblical languages. Learners can connect historical, cultural, and linguistic information concerning scripture to the theological questions and life challenges facing people today, so as to more effectively communicate the relevance of scriptural teachings. Knowing that learning biblical languages is important for exegesis, they have developed and initiated a language-learning plan.
