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Offering Bible Majors

The Opportunity To

Enhance Classroom

^Knowledge And Gain

Practical Experience

In Ministerial Duties

B5S55 - *v£vv

ible knowledge is necessary, but in order to be a

Bible teacher or a pastor, practical experience is

often the best teacher. Bible and pastoral studies

majors testify that the confidence gained and lessons

learned from experience weighs as heavily as the

knowledge gained from classes.

The Bible faculty encourage and aid the students in

their ministry as well. The many years of experience

that Dr. Norman Spotts, Dr. Ed Oliver, and Mr. Bob

Carver have not only helped students learn in class

but given them solid examples to follow. Bible

students agree that the relationship the students

have with their professors is an important part of

learning practical experience. The classroom is

important also because the background knowledge

learned in class helps improve the study of the Bible

which is necessary for preparing effective messages

and devotionals.

Bible majors The students may know their Bibles well; however,

and pastoral it is impossible to have an effective ministry without

some practical experience. The confidence that

studies majors comes through preaching one’s first message is

invaluable. Bible Education major Dan Kuhbander has
find that it is built his confidence by being a devotion leader in the

impossible to residence hall and leading his church’s youth group.

“ Without this experience, I would never be prepared

have effective to teach,’’ he remarked.

ministries with­ The final test of a pastoral studies major is an

internship during his senior year. The student intern
out some actual works with the pastor of a local church learning what

experience. involves leading a congregation. In his internship,

Larry Lawton has needed to apply the principles

learned in class to the ministry. He said he now

realizes the many decisions that must be made and

how they are made from a pastoral viewpoint. This

kind of training is sure to prepare him to serve God.

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