Alumnus and Faculty Spotlight: The Substratum of My Teaching

After I had pastored for eight years, I felt the need to further my theological education and ministry training. So, I enrolled in the MCS program in 2010 at 36 years old. At that time, we were meeting at the Olford Center for Expository Preaching. The classes were small enough to experience fellowship and large enough to learn from a wide range individuals from various walks of life and ministry.

The program helped deepen my biblical knowledge, strengthen my engagement in spiritual disciplines, crystalize my leadership philosophy and approach, enhance my ministry skills, and excel in my ability to study and teach the Bible.

The program helped deepen my biblical knowledge, strengthen my engagement in spiritual disciplines, crystalize my leadership philosophy and approach, enhance my ministry skills, and excel in my ability to study and teach the Bible. Consequently, the MCS has become the substratum of my approach to teaching on the college and graduate level. I still study the books and lessons the professors used, as well as model the approaches to teaching employed by the instructors. I still follow many of the leadership principles and practices embodied and taught in the MCS program.

I found the program to be accessible, adaptable, & accomplishable. It was accessible because I could get in quickly and drive across town to class, adaptable because I could choose/change the nights I attended, and accomplishable because there were no extraneous or superfluous course requirements. I slow walked my degree by taking one course at a time. This way I could fully engage the material, lectures, and projects for each course. I was able to enroll in the courses that met on the nights when I was not consumed with family and ministry responsibilities.

Today, the program is even better than it was fourteen years ago. Our professors are pastor-theologians. Our director is a professor, preacher, pastor, researcher, and writer. Our approach is scholarship for the purpose of discipleship. I recommend the MCS program to all pastors, preachers, church leaders, and missionaries. I also recommend to any believer who is desiring to learn to study Scripture in a more responsible way. You will not be disappointed.

Reginald D. Taylor

Professor Taylor is an alumnus and faculty of the Master of Christian Studies program. He is also the pastor of The Rock Church

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