Course Hours  

Lecture Hours 

35

Supervision

10

Practical Work  

40

Self-study reading and writing  

45

Total Hours  

120

Task No

Task

Assigned to

Deadline

Sent to Supervisor

Sent to Encarnacao Coordinator

1

This Initial Course Outline

Bryan, ___ of ATS, ____ of HBI

Dec 2006

y

2

Assessment tasks

Bryan

Dec 2006

y

3

Lecture titles

Bryan

Dec 2006

y

4

Weekly readings, bibliography

5

Field Supervision with report forms

6

Course manual with initial notes for each lecture

7

Course manual completed

8

Course manual with graphics

9

Conversion to web pages

10

CD of course

11

3-5 min video clips added

12

Interactive CD for distance learning

Outcome1.

Shows evidence of a committed member of Church in good standing in a leadership role.

Outcome 2.

Models discipleship worthy of being imitated, including healthy management of family.

Outcome 3.

Exercises ministry gifts in a team, and in a way that encourages an urban poor community.

Outcome 4.

Understands spirituality from a holistic perspective, using tools that measure several people’s holistic orientation and their resultant spiritual growth.

Outcome 5.

Propounds a model of pastoral care in an urban poor context (church or mission team).

Outcome 6. 

Competent in leading and relating to a small group and understanding the seasons of growth each member has reached.

Task No.

Description of the task/assignment

Criteria for evaluation

Marks

Weighting

TUL520-1/3

Produce evidence that the candidate is a committed member of Church, exercising spiritual gifts, and held in good standing in a leadership role. Three credible persons’ testimony or reports must form part of the evidence.

The evidence of others must show the modelling of discipleship worthy of being imitated, including good management of family relationships as identified by other family members, church members, ministry supervisors and/or friends.

The evidence of the candidate and the others giving testimony must also demonstrate how the candidate’s ministry gifts are effective in an urban poor community.

10

10%

TUL520-2

Develop an action plan for spiritual growth over the next year.

Including six of the following: weekly reading, study, response and practice of the classical spiritual disciplines, the appropriate use and application of communal worship, prayer and fasting, encountering and responding to spiritual conflict, exercising deliverance ministry, in-depth bible study, practising the presence of God, the exercise of spiritual gifts with an attitude of servant-hood, and practising moral integrity and ethics

100

30%

TUL520-5/6

The candidate will observe a model of small group pastoral care in an urban poor context (mission team or church) and then lead a small group in the same context. 

The candidate must show an understanding of the seasons of growth each member has reached.

The candidate is required to enunciate a  model of pastoral care in an urban poor context as they relate to one person in the small group and their pastoral needs.

10

30%

TUL520-4

Survey 5 people that are either part of your ministry team or are likely prospects and show from the survey how these people are holistic in their worldview or not. From the assessment evaluate their suitability for ministry among the poor.

Assessment against the Lifestyle and Values of Servants and other indicators of holistic spirituality

100

30%

No

Session Title

Sub-Themes

Related Readings

Preparation

Style

Section 1:  Foundations of Spirituality

1.

Why urban spirituality?

Mankind, the climax of the creation

1. Defining the need for urban spirituality.

2. Why has the church majored on rural approaches to spirituality?

3. What are the unique aspects of urban life and how do they impact our spirituality?

1. The joy of densely populated cities.

2. God’s delight in the multiplication of humanity over the earth…a God ordained vision.

3. The vision of God for mankind without sin?

4. The intimacy of God with mankind in the original creation.

5. God’s desire for intimate human and God related community.

Lecture

Video

3.

Diversity…God’s creative genius and an opportunity for God’s love to be manifest in cross cultural relationships and the humility of language learning.

1. The extravagance of God in creation.

2. Multiple expressions of the same species.

3. An eschatological vision from Revelation 22.

4. Love expressed in communication across cultures.

5. The down approach to language learning expresses humility.

6. Entering a community through language learning.

Field Trip

4.

Community, marriage, family, households, bonding and God’s vision for His people.

1. Adam and Eve – the two shall become one flesh. Genesis 2 v 20-25.

2. Moses, justice, community leadership and his pastoral care responsibilities in Exodus 18 – 20.

3. The Church as a joy-filled, loving caring community of spiritually nurturing families. 1 Tim 3.

4. Deacons and elders prove their spiritual development in the context of family leadership. 1Timothy 3.

5. Evangelists, teachers, pastors, prophets, and apostles as community-formation roles.

5.

Types of Christian Spirituality – finding the balance in the city

1. Moralism, Rationalism, Quietism, Pietism.

2. The mind to know God, the heart to sense God; the transcendence and immanence of God.

3. The Apophatic – the mystery of God; the Kataphatic – the revealed God.

4. Modern Movements and their forms of spirituality.

a) Holiness - compassion

b) Charismatic – Holy Spirit and the gifts

c) Contemplative – devotion to God

d) Evangelical – virtue, and rational

e) Pentecostal – Spirit empowered

f) Social justice – activist

5. The pendulum swings in church history. The rational to the supernatural.

Ken Boa, 2001, "Conformed His Image"  Zondervan.

Reference "A circle of Sensibility" from the History of Christian Spirituality @1980 by Urban Holmes 111.

Personal spirituality style analysis

6.

Historical traditions of spirituality

1. New Testament Spirituality, Early Church fathers, Early Christian Worship, The Didache, The Montanists, The Martyrs, Gnosticism, Asceticism, Hellenistic Influences, Mysticism, Desert Spirituality, Monastic Spirituality, Augustine, Dionysius and Patrick of Ireland, Orthodox spirituality.

2. Reformation, Anabaptist, Moravians, 3. Anglican, Spanish, French, Eastern spirituality.

Section 2: Personal Analysis

7.

Finding your spiritual path?

1. A temperament analysis

2. An analysis of your orientation; action, reflection, service, awareness, knowledge, devotion, discipline, spontaneity.

3. Spiritual preferences and how they affect adaptation to ministry among the poor.

Ken Boa, 2001, "Conformed His Image"  Zondervan.

8.

Understanding Self – Self Assessment the first step in Leadership Development.

a) What are my core values? A model of personal relationships questionnaire plotting propensities in 12 selected core values.

b) My motives – are they driven by fear or love? What beliefs motivate my ministry test.

c) Emotional and mental stability? A test to analyse my emotional and mental

health.

d) What type of personality am I? A personality profile scoring sheet.

e) Identifying personal bondages.

f) Dealing with cardinal sins

Self-assessment tests

9.

A supervised review of the self reflection tests. A Biblical comparison of the values, motives and personalities of New Testament characters.

1. What were the core values of Jesus?

2. How did ministry motives affect selected disciples and their actions?

a) Why do we do what we do?

b) Love gratitude, and rewards.

c) Identity, purpose and hope, and longing for God.

3. What are the ideal values of urban church planters and urban poor pastors?

4. Change and how it affects different personalities?

5. Key indicators in relationship, community and team building?

10.

Holistic Spirituality

An integrated life based around the image of God imprinted in our being;

a) Dichotomy and holism.

b) Husband/wife; parent/child; Companion relationships.

c) Work, possessions, finances.

d) Society, clubs organisations and Government and politics.

e) Sport, recreation and leisure.

f) Health, education and artistic development.

g) Relationships with God, self, the world, and the body of Christ.

11.

Goals in Personal Spiritual Transformation, an outworking of an integrated spirituality.

1. Goals for the transformation of our heart, soul, mind, body, social life, feelings, work life, recreational activity.

2. Goals for the transformation of our relationships at home in the family, church and the community.

3. A ministry development action plan. A planning chart to analyse my present position, my goals, and the obstacles to achieving those goals.

4. A Biblical view of obstacles to development and how God uses these trials to develop godly character.

Goal Development sheet

12.

Households as a basic unit for spiritual development

1. The importance of households in the Book of Acts.

2. The power of households to shape;

a) Spirituality

b) Psychological imagery

c) Social relationships

d) Sexuality

e) Political power

f) Leadership

g) Male/female relationships

h) Prejudice/racism.

13.

Urban Poor Spirituality: The nature and incarnation of God.

Review the Lifestyle and Values of Servants

Grigg, Viv, 1984 The Lifestyle and Values of Servants, Urban Leadership Foundation

14.

Discipleship and human development.

1. The disciple and the self – Paul and the Book of Romans.

2. Facets of the inner core of our nature developing selflessness from the beatitudes.

2. The exchanged life – the self lost in our true identity in Christ.

a) Grasping our true identity in Christ,

b) God’s plan to meet our needs.

3. The disciplined life and its impact on our human and Divine relationships.

15.

Spirituality in Urban Poor Missions Community

1. Why build teams

2. A shared spirituality

3. Reaching for God’s best in a community of believers – principles of "Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor" team relationships and lifestyles.

4. The role of service and spiritual gifts in maturing the members of a team/community.

Community and Decision-Making, Gifts and Calling in the Lifestyle and Values
Grigg, Viv 1984, Why 3rd Orders, Urban Leadership Foundation.

Section 3: Spirituality as a Response to Life's Situations

16.

Suffering and Pain – the daily reality in the slum.

1. Why is there such a thing as pain?

2. What is God trying to say to us through pain?

3. How people respond to suffering?

4. How do we cope with pain?

5. Does our pain mature us?

6. What is the role of faith in pain and suffering?

7. Advocacy and compassion, and our experiences of pain.

17.

Inconvenience, hostility, guilt and conflict.

1. Shaping positive attitudes to the challenges of slum life.

2. Loving and serving the opposition to our presence in the slum.

3. Dealing with the guilt of affluence when confronted with those who are destitute.

4. Brokering conflict resolution and dealing with the anger and pain of injustice.

18.

Culture shock, stress, loss, withdrawal and rejection.

1. Identifying the stress of culture shock.

2. A Biblical response to culture shock.

3. The time relationship to degrees of culture shock.

Countering culture shock.

4. Valuing the attributes of another culture

5. Symptoms of relationship withdrawal and anger

6. Coping with grief and loss

7. Issues surrounding privacy and communal sharing

8. Suffering rejection with joy – Christ our example

Dye, Wayne and Sally Folger Dye,

19.

Abusive relationships and their impact on spirituality.

1. Primary causes of abusive relationships.

a) Lack of accountability

b) Fear of rejection

c) Addictive substances

d) Conditioning from historical parental behaviour

e) Sickness or mental health

f) Unjust punishment

g) Sexual abuse and lust

h) Greed and injustice

2. Manipulation and power and control mechanisms in slum communities

3. Gang communities and spirituality

4. Gender conflict and spirituality

5. Feminist spirituality

6. Minority spirituality

7. Childhood/street children spirituality

20.

Failure and forgiveness, reconciliation, healing, vulnerability and restoration.

1. The pressure of the success driven society; what is success from God’s perspective.

2. Why and what causes failure/loss or collapse of a person. Organisation or society/City.

3. War, flood, earthquake, famine, religious conflict, tsunami, economic collapse.

4. Vulnerability – what’s wrong and what’s right about being vulnerable?

5. Healing reconciliation and restoration applied to the above (3) causes of loss.

6. Key concepts in a personal spirituality based on Kingdom values that responds with compassion to the above.

21.

Oppression, injustice, hurt, fear, and retaliation.

1. The Bible says "let the oppressed go free". What does that mean in you spiritual worldview?

2. Why does injustice occur and why does God let it happen. What is your response to injustice. How has injustice affected you spirituality.

3. What is self-cursing, why do we do it when faced with injustice, and how can we avoid it?

4. What is a Biblical answer to hurt, how can it be healed?

5. When are we called to suffer hurt?

6. Fear – the Bible says "perfect love casts out fear".

Why is fear a damaging personal inner motivation?

7. Retaliation. When is it okay to retaliate? W hat spiritualty allows for retaliation. Critique these attitudes.

22.

Discernment of evil systems.

1. Identifying entrenched evil in City systems

2. Reshaping City thinkers and their apathy to injustice

3. Maintaining positive relationships even with your enemies.

4. Identifying the powers behind conflict and resisting personalising it.

5. Pulling down strongholds according to the Apostle Paul’s injunction.

23.

The powers – 4 views of spiritual powers and the city

1. Understanding the a variety of views of how the powers over a city may be viewed and appreciating lessons from each viewpoint

a) The Reformed View

b) The Sociologists View

c) The Evangelical View

d) The Pentecostal View

2. Expressing and developing your view, its strengths and weaknesses?

3. Undoing the powers

4. Breaching their fortresses

5. Biblical counter-cultural activism that disarms the powers?

McAlpine, T. H. (1991). Facing the Powers: What are the Options? Monrovia: MARC.

Section 4: Spiritual Disciplines

24.

Establishing rhythms for Christian living in a slum context.

1. Directing your spiritual life so it blossoms in the midst of turmoil

2. Drawing daily on God who is the source of your strength

3. Prayer, devotion, reading, worship, intimacy, meditation, and fellowship each day in the slum.

4. Reflection, journaling and strategic thinking.

5. Walking on water, being anointed, catalysing healing and transformation.

25.

Encountering the Spirit of Christ in daily living.

1. Loving God completely

a) We want to know God more intimately.

b) We want to love God more dearly

c) We want to follow God more closely.

2. Trusting God with everything

3. Sensitivity to the movement of the Holy Spirit in and around us in everyday living.

4. Being filled with the Spirit everyday.

26.

Sanctification, cleansing, renewal, and revival.

1. The practice of the presence of God in holiness and sanctification.

2. The cleansing power of the blood of Christ; daily confession of sin and an imparted and imputed righteousness from Christ Himself.

3. Renewal and refreshment of spirit, renewal of the mind, and strength for our mortal bodies.

4. A heart for revival. Seeing past the routine to expect the unusual from God. Capturing the transformative power of revival.

27.

Fasting, prayer and spiritual breakthrough.

1. Fasting;

a) Personal renewal

b) Breakthrough in a spiritual community

c) Overcoming powers

d) An expression of longing for more of God’s presence.

2. Prayer;

a) Personal disciplines

b) Corporate prayer

c) Citywide and National prayer.

d) Advocacy in prayer

e) Supplication

f) Intercession

g) Warfare prayer

h) 60 minutes of prayer each day.

28.

Retreat, replenish, revitalise and re-envision.

1. Everybody has lifecycles and needs sabbatical rest, & refreshment.

a) Plan your refreshment cycle

b) Plan your practice of refreshment

c) Plan a revitalisation program for your life and ministry.

2. Re-envisioning

a) Your family life

b) Your small group life

c) Your church life

d) Your community involvement

e) Your ministry activities and goals.

3. Who are your mentors? Who are you accountable too? How often do you review your work, family, leisure and educational development goals?

4. Critical life experiences in family and ministry. Death, sickness, loss, hardship. Are you prepared for these? Who will take over your ministry role when you exit for recovery, retreat, or sabbatical?

Section 5: Reproducing Urban Spirituality Utilising the Four Seasons of Growth Framework

29.

Reproductive disciple-making spirituality.

1. Building a team

2. Team selection

3. Delegation and responsibility

4. Show, teach, empower, evaluate, encourage, release.

5. Intimacy of sharing life habits and patterns, hospitality, and truthfulness.

30.

Four seasons of growth – personally and corporately.

1. Understanding the four seasons of growth in our personal lives, and in the groups we relate too.

2. A personal evaluation in relation to the 4 seasons.

31.

Educating others for growth and development. What season are you experiencing?

1. Self assessment of the stage of our development

2. Mapping progress for the future.

3. Helping others assess their stage and set direction for future growth

4. Breaking stagnation, complacency, and hopelessness

32.

Interactive small group dynamics

1. The theory of small group dynamics

2. Why small groups work in nurture and leadership development

3. How to teach in a small group without putting people to sleep.

4. Give them a go, learning by trial and error.

33.

Understanding how a small group works

1. Why are small groups important for church planting in slums

2. What are the key dynamics of small groups in contrast to regular church meetings

3. How do people learn small groups and what is apprentice type learning

4. How does leadership and giftedness develop in a small group

34.

Discipleship and the small group

1. How does discipleship develop in a small group.

2. How do the 4 seasons of growth relate to discipleship in a small group

3. Why are character qualities so important in Christian leadership.

4. Paul’s emphasis on quality family relationships impacting the Church.

5. Leadership in the home is the training ground for leadership in the Church.

6. How do small groups help family leadership develop.

7. What are the key principles of discipleship?

Section 5: Slum Church Spirituality

35.

Slum Church Spirituality: Singing and indigenous instrumental music. worship, prostration, kneeling, raising hands and other body movements.

Art, sculpture, carving, poetry, song writing, prose, and writing.

1. Developing artistic responses to God and our relationship with God

2. Singing, poetry, song writing, prophecy, writing as worship to God.

1. The importance of indigenous music to urban poor movements

2. Why use the whole body in worship in the slum context?

3. The joy of bodily expression.

4. Biblical ideas for body movements from the Book of Psalms

36.

Slum Church Spirituality: Noise, proclamation, shouting, meditation and silence.

1. Sound and worship

2. Setting the mood in the context

3. Diversity and how it enriches experience and expectation in worship

Grigg, 2004, Cry of the Urban Poor, Authentic, chs 15,16

37.

Preaching, devotional reflections, testimony, drama, dance and speeches.

1. The art of preaching

2. Testimony

3. Dramatic presentations

·         Present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto the Lord.

·         Discretion in body adornment and movement

·         Acting and the art of pretense.

·         The power of the visual media

·         Capturing the moment.

4. Reflective worship

5. Dance

Trainee Name: ………………………………………………………………………………….

Trainee No:…………………………………….

Date: ……………………………………….

Details of Practical Service in a Small Group Ministry Project being offered for assessment

Describe the Practical Small Group Ministry Service responsibility:

Please report on the Trainees Small Group Ministry Service activities under the following headings:

Christ Like attitude; Give specific examples of godly attitudes that were demonstrated during the Small Group ministry practical service activity;

Punctuality and reliability and faithfulness in the small details and tasks:

Friendliness, servant qualities, cultural, gender and impaired persons sensitivity, contribution to the Small Group unity and reconciliation:

Pastoral qualities; such as caring, empathy, compassion, prayerfulness, assisting weaker members or persons, practical helps etc:

Respect, honour and shame issues, eagerness to learn new languages if appropriate, humility, incarnational considerations, advocacy:

Personal deportment, presentation, cleanliness and dress code:

Competency in the task and accountability for all equipment, finances etc:

Other general observations:

Practical Service confirmed by the spiritual supervisor/director or leader:

Name:…………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Address:………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Position Held:…………………………………………………………………………………………..

Telephone:………………………………………Fax:…………………………………………………

Email: … … …………………………………… Website: …………………………………………

Recommendation:

Would you recommend that this person continues to participate in Christian Pastoral

ministry ? YES/NO

What area of ministry do you think this person is most suited too? Please write your comments below. This form is confidential and should not be given to the trainee.

Please deliver it directly to the Course facilitator/Dean.

Trainee Name: ………………………………………………………………………………….

Trainee No:…………………………………….

Date: ……………………………………….

Competency Profiles as Basis for Course Design of the MA in Transformational Urban

Course:

TUL520

TUL520

Urban Spirituality

CompID

Competency

Skill                                Knowledge                       Value                          Character

Course Objectives:

Disciplined habits that promote an urban spirituality through weekly reading, study, response and practice of the

classical spiritual disciplines. Development of an action plan for the next years of spiritual formation.

TUL520

Urban Spirituality

Reflections on the continuity of building an intimate relationship with God in the context of the city, knowing the

appropriate use and application of prayer and fasting, encountering and responding to spiritual conflict, exercising

deliverance ministry, in-depth bible study, practising the presence of God, the exercise of spiritual gifts with an

attitude of servant-hood, and practising moral integrity and ethics.

Issues of sustaining and developing a healthy marriage partnership in the midst of the stresses of urban ministry

and poverty are examined in the light of Biblical holism.

The Care and Nurturing of Urban Poor Workers, which includes pastoral care of urban poor workers, psych testing,

theology of work and rest, cross-cultural stress and shock issues, reentry, etc. Critical application of the four

seasons of Christian growth to ones own life and the lives of a selected group of people, ascertaining which season

each person is in and how that contributes to their spiritual development and function within a ministry team or faith

community. Analysis of the expanded use of pastoral and ministry gifts, critically evaluating one’s own appropriate

pastoral roles and the capacity to respond to urban poor pastoral issues. Development of a cell group.

376

Theology of martyrdom

Able to confront opposition with

Theology of suffering and

Values suffering and

Gracious in opposition

Biblical wisdom

martyrdom

martydom

(Mat5:10)

371

Has clarity as to call to follow

Able to explain the call to the

Understands the diversity

Obedience to the Biblical

Sense of vocation

Jesus among the poor, to the

poor to others without shame,

involved in Jesus call to minister

mandates to minister

poor or as an advocate for the

and despite opposition from

among the poor, and the costs

among the poor

church leaders

369

Person of focussed vision

Consistently identifies objectives

Understands processes of

Values spirit-inspired goal-

Singleminded

through times of retreat

identifying objectives, goals,

setting

strategy, timframes, limitations,

resources

355

Able to face suffering and

Interprets themese in a theology

Values character produced

injustice with Biblical perspectives

of justice from both Old and New

by suffering

Testament passages.

353

Godly reactions to dishonour,

Works through processes of

Understands the soveriegnty and

Grace, dignity and

Forgiving (Eph 4:32)

shame, abuse, adversity and

reconciliation with enemies or

grace of God in leadership

stability under opposition

opposers

conflicts, public opposition,

adversity and crisis

352

Critically evaluates personal

Sustains private worship

Understands the balance between

spiritual growth in the light of

doing justice as spirituality and

inclinations to varied spiritual

devotional disciplines

disciplines

351

Sacrifices in marriage,

Understands the costs on family

Values sacrifices in

singleness, childlessness for the

of ministry and the ways of

marriage, singleness,

sake of the gospel

balancing provision for the family

childlessness for the sake

of the gospel

349

Identifies and released from

Processes of release from

Freedom for the flow of

Freedom of Spirit

personal spiritual bondages and

bondages and cardinal sins

the Spirit

cardinal sins

343

Establishes rhythms of Christian

Applies styles of spirituality to

Understands historic Christian

spirituality

the urban environment

spiritualities

303

Understand the relationship of

Experienced in inviting the

Understand the relationship of the

All effective ministry is

Dependent on God

the anointing of the Spirit and

presence of the Spirit into

anointing of the Spirit and

the work of God

ministry among the poor

situations in the slums.

ministry among the poor

344

Propound a Christ-Centred

Propound a Christ-Centred

Understands principles of Christ-

Values Christ-cenredness

Empathy

therapy of pastoral counselling

therapy of pastoral counselling

centred counselling

in counselling

33

Exercises an approved ministry

Exercise of a ministry

Understanding of ministry tasks

Approval of character by

in the Church

and outcomes required

church leaders

78

Applies Biblical principles to

Biblical principles of sustaining

Forgiving

interpersonal relationships

personal relationships

88

Loves children and appreciates

Affirms the least

Kindness (Gal 5:22,23)

their company

89

Respects the elderly and is

Respect for the elderly

Goodness (Gal 5:22,23)

patient with them

87

Relates healthily to opposite

Biblical teaching and awareness

Purity

gender

of gender differences, of

differing cultural gender roles

79

Knows how to manage

Group conflict resolution

Conflict Resolution processes

Rapid dealing with sinful

Peacemaker (Matt 5:8)

interpersonal conflicts

and attitudes, Biblical theology of

relational patterns in

conflict resolution, forgiveness,

reconciliaition

80

Maintains good family

Creates loving, warm affirmative

Can identified primary stresses

Priority of healthy family

Manages Family Well

family environment

their family experiences because

of ministry involvement and wth

peers determine significant

86

Knows how to relate on intimate

Has deep friendships

Values deep-level

Brotherly love

terms

communication

95

Hears and sensitive to the voice

Hears and sensitive to the voice

The variety of ways God

Spiritually Sensitive

of God

of God

communicates

210

Has development plan in areas

Has development plan in areas

knows area of primaty gifting

of primary gifting

of primary gifting

179

Knows personal limitations

Knows personal limitations

Values balance and wisdom

Balance

71

Integrates a theology of the

Practices sabbath keeping and

Theology of jubilee, work and rest

Values rest

Peace (Gal 5:22,23)

jubilee and sabbath, work and

annual holidays

rest into ministry style

61

Judged emotionally and

Has analysed psychological test

Studied Proverbs on issues of

Values balance

Balance

psychologically balanced

with mentor

balance

62

Able to resolve significant

Has resolved any significant

Theology and practice of inner

Wholeness

Mature character

personal emotional problems

emotional problems

healing

63

Open to receiving counselling for

The need and limits of counselling

Positive attitude to wise

Hunger for righteousness

emotional health

counselling

64

Has a healthy self respect

Self-respect

65

Maintains emotional equilibrium

Emotionally Stable

66

Consistent in personal

Self-knowledge of personal

Values sustained

Consistency

motivational structure, Biblical

motivation

theologies of success, failure,

depression, joy.

67

Copes with stress in a balanced

Skills to cope with stress in

Knowledge of causes of stress

manner

personal life, family life and

and reactions to stress

environment

69

Physically fit and in good health

Maintains physical fitness regime

Biblical theology of body-spirit

Values fitness

Endurance (2 Tim 2:3)

relationships

73

Continually building an intimate

Continually building an intimate

Prioritizes personal

Seeks God

relationship with God

relationship with God

relationship with God

74

Knows the power of prayer and

Prays and fasts regularlly with

Biblical framework of prayer and

Dependent on God

Dependent on God

fasting

answered prayers

fasting

267

Has experience in deliverance

Has experience in deliverance

Biblical frameworks of spiritual

Warrior Spirit

ministry

ministry

world, deliverance, anthropological

frameworks of mythology.

Understands the phnomenology

of spirits and Spirit on human

75

Applies principles of spiritual

Biblical and theological

Warrior Spirit

conflict in an urban situation

frameworks of spiritual warfare

97

Demonstrates the fruit of the

Biblical character qualities

Fruit of the Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit

98

Regularly exercises personal

Regularly exercises personal

Biblical theology of nature and

Work of Holy Spirit as

spiritual gifts

spiritual gifts

use of spiritual gifts

source of ministry

99

Demonstrates an attitude of

Biblical teaching on servanthood

Servanthood

servanthood

117

Participates willingly in household

Servanthood

Participates willingly in

duties

household duties

187

Models discipleship worthy of

Biblical teaching on modelling

Values modelling

Winsome

being imitated

188

Transmits life as well as

Values transferral of

character

225

Spends quality constructive time

Spends quality constructive time

Biblical teaching on healthy

Healthy family

Manages family well

with spouse and children

with spouse and children

marriage relationships, parent-

child, husband-wife relationships

226

Manages family well

Manages Family Well

227

Consistently provides for and

Consistently provides for family

Household budgetting, longterm

Provision of finances and

Reliability(2 Tim 2:2)

emotionally nurtures family

financial planning

growth environment for

family

229

Creates positive family

Spouse and children are affirmed

Positive environment

Creates positive family

environment

environment

228

Gives spiritual leadership in own

Gives spiritual leadership in own

Biblical foundations and

Values God-given roles

Gives spiritual leadership in

home

home

approaches to spiritual leadership

and spiritual leadership

own home

230

Home is a place of hospitality

Theology of hospitality as source

Hospitable

of leadership

245

No major unresolved conflict

No major unresolved conflict

Conflict Resolution

Peace (Gal 5:22,23)

within family

within family

246

Husband and wife can work as a

Husband and wife can work as a

Male-female differences and

Unity in marriage

Considerate (James 3:17)

team

team

complementarities

247

Family members emotionally

Family members emotionally and

Holinesss as health

and physically healthy

physically healthy

233

Uses diary or planner for

Uses diary or planner for

Holiness as excellence in

Excellence

ministry and personal time

ministry and personal time

all things

235

Balances priorities of time and

Balances priorities of time and

Skills of prioritising time

Balance

relationships

relationships

248

Responsibly finishes tasks with

Managerial theories of excellence,

Excellence

Faithfulness (Gal 5:22,23)

good results on time

holiness teaching

241

Identifies ones personal

Understands ones personal

Meekness (Matt 5:5)

limitations and has management

limitations

strategies in place to maximise

242

Understands limits to ones

Involvement in team analysis of

Authority: Lives within

expectations of self and others

limits to ones expectations of

self and others

243

Seeks out accountable

self-understanding of personal

Authority: Lives within

relationships

accountability areas

Summary for Course = TUL520 (56 competencies)