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course description
What is the Church? Why is the Church here? What is the Church supposed to be doing? And how it the Church supposed to do it? These are questions of Ecclesiology.
What does the future hold? What are the events that we should expect to happen when God brings about the end of His current plan? Why are there so many conflicting interpretations about the millennium, the tribulation, and the rapture? These are questions of Eschatology.
This course is a study of both the nature and purpose of the Church and a study of the end times. The purpose of this course is to orient people to the program of God throughout the ages, understanding how the Church fits in to His program. The vital relationship between one's view of the Church and one's view of the end times will be emphasized. We will come to the understanding that while orthodox Christianity has always believed that Christ is coming back, there are many differences concerning the details of His coming.
dourse outline
Session 1 - Nature of the Church
Session 2 - The Church and Israel: A Defense of Replacement Theology
Session 3 - The Church and Israel: A Defense of Dispensational Theology (and an introduction to "Progressive Covenantalism")
Session 4 - Purpose of the Church: What is the Church Supposed to be Doing?
Session 5 - Ministries of the Church: How is the Church Supposed to do it?
Session 6 - Ministries of the Church: Ordinances/Sacraments
Session 7 - The Gifts of the Church
Session 8 - Marks of a False Church and the Government of the Church
Session 9 - What are the Different Views of the Millennium?
Session 10 - Rapture and the Afterlife |