SEMINARY FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP
Your degree through our Seminary for Proactive Christian Discipleship is achieved in combo with one of Immersion University’s other degrees – either in Entrepreneurial Journalism or in Entrepreneurial Language Instruction. You can achieve by simply adding one trimester to your IU program, graduating with two diplomas rather than one. These other diplomas require at least 4 trimesters to complete (with additional work-study internships optional), so to add this second diploma, 5 trimesters will be required, including some extra assignments required throughout the curriculum.
If you envision your discipleship to lead you overseas in a formal or informal mission for Jesus Christ, the best companion degree for you is probably in Entrepreneurial Language Instruction. We can prepare you to teach for an established school, university or language institute full or part time, or to set up your own Immersion Language Institute franchise. In either case, you will earn a livelihood while meeting people anxious to learn not just about foreign languages (usually English) but also foreign cultures (including Christianity). You can then proactively pursue your Christian discipleship as guided by the Holy Spirit. Directing your own language institute will clearly give you the most freedom to intermix your work and your discipleship.
If you prefer to practice your Christian discipleship in America or in another developed nation, there are still many opportunities to do so as a language teacher in a virtual or physical classroom. However, you may also choose to pursue your seminary degree in combination with a mastery degree in Entrepreneurial Journalism. With that degree you will learn how to enhance your ability to proclaim your message through multimedia books and blogs, online sermons, etc., while earning a living as an entrepreneurial journalist.
The work-study plans we have established for either of these programs can lead to both financial and personal success fairly quickly in combination with your proactive Christian discipleship.
GOAL #1: LIVING DISCIPLESHIP
The primary goal of the Seminary of Proactive Christian Discipleship is to learn to be effective disciples, not to become necessarily great Christian scholars, although our scholarship will grow naturally with our discipleship. We will want to know more and more about our Savior and how we can serve him by serving others. The scholarship helps us to achieve these goals. However, if nothing else, we should see clearly from the disciples whom Jesus called to follow him that he was not looking for such scholars as to the scribes and Pharisees. He was looking for humble, honest people willing to put him before anything else in their lives. Peter, Andrew, James and John were all fishermen before they were called to be apostles to lead the Christian church after Jesus’ death. The Holy Spirit could teach them what to teach (Luke 12:11-12). They didn’t need to learn it from books, although the almost certainly began studying more after they were called to serve. We want to help inspire and teach such disciples as these.
Your application for this program will be to write your first sermon, referencing the following seven chapters from the New Testament: Luke 12; 1 Corinthians chapters 2, 12-15; and James 2, following your own inspiration in so doing. As with this entry assignment, we will not teach the doctrines of any specific denomination but urge you to seek God’s inspiration and guidance in your own search for meaningful discipleship. We believe that God answers sincere prayers but that in some cases his inspiration may require the kind of commitment and effort that Jesus himself exhibited by fasting before beginning his mission and by praying sometimes all night, if necessary, to achieve the communion he sought with his Father. We see his disciples following Christ’s example in both Peter’s and Cornelius’ fasting and prayers described in Acts 10, and similarly, the prayers of the Apostle John that led to his reunion with the risen Christ, as described in Revelations 1:9-20.
Your first textbook will be The Story of Jesus: The harmonized gospel of Jesus Christ, blending the accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (Christian Discipleship Book 1). In blending and harmonizing the four Gospels, it provides a single storyline from before Jesus’ birth until his ascension, from start to finish, leading to a better, more complete understanding of his life and mission. That will be followed by Success Strategies for Proactive Christian Discipleship, written specifically for this course of study. Another common resource will be https://biblehub.com/. We do not control this website nor endorse everything on the website, but it is one of many excellent resources on the internet to assist you with your learning and assignments.
Besides assigned readings and online discussions, your primary assignments — beyond your separate study in journalism or language instruction — will be preparing a weekly multimedia sermon/blog that can be uploaded to our http://IEI-TV.net website. This website will be further developed by our Entrepreneurial Journalism students as part of an international online TV (multimedia) network. Thus, people from around the world will have access to your weekly sermons that will be available as text and video. We will also provide instruction on how to prepare these sermon/blogs and how to enhance your written and oral presentations. Read more details about IEI TV under the Entrepreneurial Journalism section of this website and visit the IEI website itself.
As you create your weekly sermons, you will keep in mind a longer-term goal of combining at least 50 of the sermons into a single book (aka thesis) to be published on https://www.smashwords.com/, made available in print or digital format, and sold through Smashwords, Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, UI, and IEI-TV websites. You will also create a portfolio site to share with organizations with which you might seek employment or partnering opportunities.