Chapter 4

CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM (CEP)

         This chapter will deal with the Continuing Education Program (CEP) of the Bible Worker and Minister. It will enhance and develop their ability to serve in the field. And will also improve their skill in the presentation, giving bible studies, using technology and different gadgets to ensure that the members are served for God’s glory.

I.   What is Continuing Education Program?

The Ministerial Department has to ensure that the Bible Worker and Minister in the Association must have a continual progress not only in life but specifically in Education as well. Continuing Education Program is an all-encompassing set of subjects of learning activities to improve one’s personal attainment. It is also considered as specific learning on the areas where they need to improve and develop.

II. What its Purpose?

The main purpose of having a Continuing Education Program in the Ministerial Department is to ensure that the Bible Workers and Ministers are equipped as to the demand of the present challenge in the field. Its wide range of circumstances and situational conditions demand a well informed and trained armies in the field of labor. {9T 116.1}

III. What are the Objectives:

At the end of every course, seminar, training or workshop the Bible Worker and Minister will be able to:

1.      Gain knowledge in the respective areas of learning that could be beneficial in the field of his labor.

2.      Internalize the spiritual aspect of the seminar, training and workshop.

3.      Demonstrate his skills and abilities in any aspect that needs to be improved.

4.      Grasp the lessons discuss in the seminars, trainings and workshops.

5.      Establish his understanding on various aspect of learning that was provided by the Ministerial Department.

6.      Apply his knowledge learned from the education provided by the Association.

IV. Different Approaches to achieve the given objectives:

1.      Correspondence Course

2.      On-line Instruction –Distant Learning

3.      Digital Interactive Learning

4.      Seminars

5.      Workshop

A. Possible Subjects/Course

1.      Continuing Education for Computer Learning (actual hands on-training)

2.      Continuing Education for the Presentations Skills Learning

3.      Continuing Education for English Proficiency

4.      Continuing Education for Presentation Skill

5.      Continuing Education for Ministers

B. Additional Courses that are essential:

1.  Christian English

Remedial drill in the fundamentals of grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation, and oral and written composition. Constant emphasis is upon language study from the higher point of view, that it "be always with grace, seasoned with salt," "the outward expression of an inward grace." {MCTC p. 14}

2.  Prophetic Eschatology

An intensive study of end-conditions and end-events as revealed in correlative and convergent lines of prophetic testimony, parable, ceremony, and number. Predominant emphasis is upon their pragmatic integration in the believer's credenda. {MCTC p. 11}

3.  Revealed History

A survey of history from the divine point of view. Causes underlying the rise and fall of empires and nations from creation to the present are incisively traced. Types and cycles are especially noticed. Main attention is fixed on the agencies of the all-merciful Providence silently, patiently working out the counsels of His own will behind, above, and through all the vast play and counterplay of human interests and power and passions. Final focus is upon the climactic scene in the drama -- the restoration of the Kingdom of God in the light of the great lessons brought to view. {MCTC p. 13}

4.  Religious Philosophy

A strictly non-speculative inquiry into the divine scheme of things, into the Absolute and Its unities. Approach is made objectively in the light of revealed knowledge. The aim is progressive elevation and enlargement of the soul's horizons, and its consequent activation on the divine plane of living, as the only truly good and more abundant life -- that which is measured by the life of God. Accordingly, its primary foci of exploration are the immensity and diversity of the love of God. {MCTC p. 11}

5.  Revealed Psychophysics

A Scriptural study of the great psychophysical laws governing the physical, mental, and moral balance of true Christian growth. This threefold development and integration of the personality is carefully viewed in its consummate embodiment in the man, Jesus. The ideal of the Christ poise and power is assiduously inculcated and pursued. Animated application is keynoted. {MCTC p. 12}

6.  Revealed Sociology

  An examination of the true social structure (the Edenic man, in his Edenic home in the Edenic school, in the Edenic state -- the kingdom of the first dominion), the causes of its fall, and the conditions of its restoration. Most intensive study is devoted to the third phase of the course -- to the social reforms involved in the regeneration, and in the transformation into the Kingdom of God, of the individual, the family, the school, and the church among those elements of society which elect to identify themselves with the divine purpose. {MCTC p. 12}

7.  Sacred Poetry and Song

An excavation into the poetic veins of revealed truth. The course includes a brief non-technical study of the form and the kinds of poetry in the Bible, while chief concern is with the spiritual esthetic of the sacred poems and songs. {MCTC p. 13}

8.  Spirit of Prophecy

A perspective study of the prophetic gift, its vital place and purpose in the church, past, present, and future. Special attention is directed to its climactic manifestation, work, and fruits. {MCTC p. 11}

9.  Vocational

The manual phase of the student's training. It is gained through daily pursuit of one or more of the institution's various employments. Both in theory and in practice, right methods and procedures are constantly inculcated for right results. Efficiency is stressed as the result of energetic application and concentration, carefulness, thoroughness, speed, and proficiency. The irrepressible desire for some greater good, the indomitable will to success, the strenuous exertion, the untiring perseverance are cultivated as the elements of character which make a man successful and honored among men, and which will win for him the highest of all promotions and commendations, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Matt. 25:21. Work is thus dignified and restored to its original primacy in the redemptive processes.

   Therefore the basic and most potent factor of discipline and growth in the student's training experience (as well as the means of his livelihood), it is accordingly exploited as the most productive source and means of symmetrical character development. {MCTC p. 10}