The GCDS curriculum is comprised of seven ministry training tracks, each with seven levels of learning, for a total of forty-nine learning modules available to each student. The seven ministry tracks are Preaching, Teaching, Healing, Story, The Arts & Imagination, Christ Formation and Contextual Semiotics The seven levels of learning within each track are Novice, Apprentice, Specialist, Docent, Maven, Master and Mentor. While the courses within each ministry track do not have to be taken in a specific order, all seven levels of learning are required to complete the track.
All the Global Church Divinity School courses are sequenced for progression In level of difficulty, from Novice to Mentor. Each course is designed with cutting edge methodology to move you through higher levels of knowledge and application for powerful results. GCDS does not compete with Bible Schools, Institutes or Seminaries. GCDS does not offer ordination of men and women for ministry. The Global Church Classroom provides a state-of-the-art environment for individualized courses, community cohorts and face-to-face learning taught by key Christian leaders from around the globe.
The Board of Governor's Award will be presented to those students who have demonstrated a knowledge of all seven levels of learning for all seven ministry tracks. This world class award will be given face-to-face in the Omega Ceremony, with fellow students.
The Board of Governor's Award will be presented to those students who have demonstrated a knowledge of all seven levels of learning for all seven ministry tracks. This world class award will be given face-to-face in the Omega Ceremony, with fellow students.
Once the student has completed all courses for Novice and Apprentice, he/she will receive The Dean's Award. If a pastor has chosen for his/her church to be a divinity school, he/she will host an awards ceremony to pass out this prestigious award to them.
The GCDS approaching the learning process from a pragmatic viewpoint. Rather than teaching everything that there is to know on a particular topic, each global teacher has presented the very essence of the topic’s most important concepts. He/she has provided wisdom, knowledge and application from life experiences and from personal study intended to provide dynamic outcomes for pastors everywhere.
Over a ten-year period, the Global Church Network® hosted strategic summits in every world region, with more than 10,000 leaders attending from hundreds of Christian denominations and organizations. From these key global leadership meetings, the seeds for the Global Church Divinity School were planted. Today, the Global Church Divinity School brings “the circumference of Christianity” to each student. This “360 Degree Teaching” is the most comprehensive training available in the Body of Christ today.
Each of the GCDS teachers have contributed their best teaching in their specialized field of ministry. There’s never been a Global Church Classroom where 54 of the 100 teachers have earned at least one PHD from a highly recognized seminary or university. These teachers include:
The Global Church Library consists of the finest authors from throughout every world region. Doctrinal balance is maintained through a diversified screening committee that reviews resources on a consistent basis before new resources are posted in the Global Church Library. Teachers and authors include:
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