Mattersey Hall is the AoG's Bible College and Training Centre offering a wide range of subjects. At the heart of its mission both the College and the Graduate School are committed to preparing men and women through an education that is innovative and marked by academic excellence for productive Christian service in vocations and ministries matched to the marketplace of the 21st Century.

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Church Planting Module

Taught by specialists in this field, the church planting module of the 2 year BA course will be the catalyst for students to go into pioneering situations in this country and overseas. Through lectures, seminars and directed learning, the course will look at:

Year 1
· Biblical context - exploring the call to cultural engagement through mission
· Biblical models for mission and Biblical models for church planting
· Cultural context - the Church and cultural change
· The transition from modernity to post-modernity
· The transition from Christendom to post-Christendom
· Theology for a post-modern/post-Christendom western world
· Strategies to connect with communities
· Core competencies

Year 2
· Building a core team
· Spiritual mapping, neighbourhood and demographic research
· Exploring the impacts of post-modernity and post-Christendom upon current trends in mission and church planting
· Emerging 'Church' an analysis of various new expressions of church and its impact upon the community
· The role of the leader in effective church planting
· Developing leadership in and around you
· The role of the five-fold ministry (Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher) in creating and planting mission churches.
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