Mentor-professors take time to understand your calling, gifting, and focus to help you grow where the Lord is leading you.
Redemption Seminary’s Student First Approach
Browse the impressive custom library included with your tuition.
All-inclusive Access
All required books for the entire program, a digital reference library, and Logos Max are all provided to all students for no additional costs or subscriptions. Redemption is committed to equipping graduates of the MABS program with the resources required in their courses so they can continue to use resources in their ministry.
Learn at Your Own Pace
You can choose to access all of the lectures and curriculum for a course before you start mentoring sessions, so you can work through the course material at your own pace according to your schedule and preferred learning pace. You get to choose when you are ready to start meeting with a mentor that you choose for each course.
Learn how you can work at your own pace with access to everything before your first course.
Grades are based on your personal growth, completion of workbook exercises using your Logos package, and practice in applying what you learn rather than exams and papers. This is called competency-based education.
Low-Stress Learning (No Exams)
Grading is based on progress through short projects and your personal growth. Writing papers with proper footnoting or taking high-stakes exams are not the best instruments for measuring growth in understanding and wisdom. Since you meet individually with a mentor, that mentor can easily assess your progress and provide guidance without relying solely on written tests and papers. Mentors allow you to demonstrate your growth and progress according to your strengths, which helps keep learning fun and encouraging.
As part of regular assignments and small projects, you are asked to consider and demonstrate the impact of your work in your ministry. Learning in the information age isn’t so much about teaching facts as it is about learning how to apply knowledge. This skill is practiced and nurtured as a central piece of courses, not left for students to figure out after they graduate. The traditional class format can’t accomplish this, but individualized mentoring is ideally suited for it.
Non-graded Course Option
For those who aren’t interested in having their work graded, students can choose to take any course without grading (mentoring). There are significant cost savings in choosing this option, and a student’s workbook can be used in the future if they decide to have their work graded.
You Choose Your Mentors
You choose your mentor for each course. You can stick with the same person or keep mixing it up. This way, you can find the right match for your gifting and your goals. The traditional classroom setting is not designed for building a personal relationship or getting personalized guidance from an expert. This is why Redemption Seminary uses recorded lectures and focuses live interaction on personal one-to-one mentoring for students.
Weekly one-to-one mentor sessions provide regular guidance and direction for applying what you learn from lectures and readings to your life.
You can learn more about the innovations Redemption Seminary is bringing to theological education in the Frequently Asked Questions section of this website.
Your Church Can Embed an Accredited Master’s Degree
As Part of its Leadership Training Program
You can earn a master’s degree in your local church. Redemption Seminary provides two options for churches and ministries to incorporate academic degrees within their own training and adult education programs. Your church can either use a Redemption program as an external program for its leadership program or incorporate the program into its own (internal) program of small group meetings for adult education.
Redemption courses start with a self-paced preparation period where students have full access to everything in the course. Churches can create their own small groups of people working at their own pace through Redemption course materials, alongside members working on the material for credit. Students are welcome to share what they are working on with their pastor so that they can receive regular guidance from their pastor without the pastor having to create curricula.
Students taking a course for credit determine how much preparation time they want before meeting regularly with a mentor to review their work for a grade. There are seven weekly meetings for each course that map with the seven units in each course’s workbook.
If your church is interested in partnering with Redemption Seminary, please contact us to begin discussing the details.