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Academic Approach

Ministry training requires more than just classes

Thirdmill Seminary Academic Approach

Award-Winning Video Curriculum

Thirdmill Seminary incorporates award-winning video lessons from Third Millennium Ministries (Thirdmill). Each series is a narrative lecture with a host teacher delivered with graphics, animations, illustrations, maps, charts, and expert interviews. The 119 video lessons at Thirdmill.org, available without charge, are an entry-point to the curriculum. To receive academic credit for studying, however, you must have a bachelor’s degree, apply and be accepted by the Thirdmill Seminary Admissions Team for the master’s program or graduate certificate.

Graduate-Level Readings and Discussions

Each graduate-level course requires at least two textbooks for reading and discussion. In the online discussion forum portal, our professors post online discussion questions, and each student submits their answers to the questions and their responses in the course.

Live Tutorials with Professors

All students join live tutorials with their professor as part of the learning process. Since the content of our program is available at no cost, we don’t charge tuition. Rather, we charge affordable fees for direct supervision, assessment and grading by credentialed faculty members. These video conference sessions are a great way to get to know your professors and other fellow students from all parts of the global church. Students also have the opportunity to meet their professors in online “office hours” one-on-one.

Mentor Meetings for Practical Application

We’ve designed our innovative approach to theological education with co-vocational church leaders in mind. Most of our students work another job to support their family while they serve Christ and the local church. Our field-based-training approach includes meetings with your local mentor-coach every other week to discuss how to apply what you are learning, and to plan ministry activities that put it to work immediately.

Spiritual Formation Activities

Each of our courses include spiritual formation activities. Students utilize different forms of prayer, meditation, Scripture memory, and other spiritual disciplines like fasting, meals, journaling, and service to apply the Bible to our life together. These time-tested, ordinary means of grace cultivate a biblical imagination, our love for God, for neighbor and for ourselves to produce good fruit in our lives and ministries.

Final Papers or Ministry Projects

Remember that the goal of seminary training is not just to acquire knowledge, but to gain wisdom. And wisdom only comes as we apply what we’re learning to our own lives and as we share it with others. Each course requires a final research paper or ministry project that require reflection, analysis, synthesis and application of the knowledge you’ve acquired in the course to catalyze the process of turning it into wisdom.

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