Video Transcript: Introduction to Ministry Sciences and Communications
I'm Henry Reyenga, president of Christian leaders Institute, and I want to welcome you to the ministry sciences and communications class. I feel like this class is something that is needed today, that maybe 10 years ago, it was needed, but we were we weren't that aware it was needed. But today, a ministry science approach is more and more important. So what is ministry sciences? Ministry sciences is a up and coming, new interdisciplinary study that studies ministry from a study perspective, but it also studies the other disciplines, such as psychology and sociology, but also how these other disciplines, other philosophy disciplines, connect to doing ministry. So what is ministry sciences? Well, first of all, it is the study of ministry, things such as pastoral care, such as Minister roles, like the efficient role the minister role, specific topics such as church planting, youth ministry, specific methodologies, such as coaching ministry, Chaplain ministry, so many topics are under the banner of ministry at Christian leaders Institute, we have hundreds of classes, and so much of our curriculum is about the study of ministry. So from the eyes of ministry, then we start looking at the other disciplines. One discipline is philosophy. So since philosophy is becoming more and more important today, we're going to look at philosophy from the eyes of ministry. Now one of those approaches in ministry is the role of the Word of God, the Bible. So the Bible is becomes the lens theology becomes the lens by which we interpret the other philosophies of this world as it relates to ministry. The example of that right now is queer theory. Queer theory, and we're going to talk about that, is a philosophic it's a post modern philosophic movement that basically is redefining personhood. Well, from a ministry standpoint to minister, we have to actually look at the philosophy that's behind this, what this philosophy seeks to deconstruct, and how the Bible sees the world differently. In many ways, we have to talk not just in terms of ministry and do ministry, but we also have to talk in terms of philosophy and how ministry and philosophy Connect. A lot of times, if you don't do that, all you do is just disagree with one another, but you don't get to where the real communication needs to be, because many people are living sort of in a philosophy, in a non self aware way, ministry can be done, not self aware of the impact of philosophy. Now, some of you have said, you know, I didn't like philosophy in school. Understand that philosophy deals with the theories of reality. These theories of reality, if we are not self aware about just get lived out, and then ministry connects. And it's as if we are not connecting and communicating to the very people we are called to reach so ministry sciences will study philosophy and study it from a Christian philosophy perspective, and in this course, we're going to talk about that at Christian leaders Institute, we have a three credit course on Christian philosophy that You can really dive into it, as well as other philosophy classes. Ministry sciences also studies other disciplines, like social sciences. If we talk about life coaching or coaching ministry, we're very much informed by the discipline in the study of coaching, and how does ministry and coaching
Connect? If you look at topics like marriage, we have a class on intimacy in marriage. In this class, this class, we studied what we have learned about sexual intimacy in general, but through. The eyes of ministry with a philosophy of Christian philosophy. So to be a minister today is to study ministry, to study philosophy, to study psychology, sociology. In this class, we're going to have a section on mental health integration. There's an example of here we are studying ministry, but we're very much aware of advances that science has made in mental health. So it's that type of a class that helps you as a minister figure out how to best serve others as an efficient a minister, a coaching minister, a chaplain. So get ready, because what is this all about? It is about communicating. So we call this ministry sciences and communication. Because first of all, it's about you as a minister, as a leader, Christian leader, communicating throughout this class. We will talk about mental health integration. We will also talk about formal communication, like having the Bible studies or actually putting together a presentation, like a message, a sermon. Maybe you're doing a wedding or a funeral, and you'd like to even grow in being a stronger communicator. So this class combines, synthesizes, ministry sciences, in a way that makes you a more effective Christian leader. So get ready. I think you're going to enjoy this class. For some of you, you're going to see material you have not really seen before. Think about things you haven't thought about before. But I trust that you will grow and you'll even have fun studying ministry, sciences and communications. And.