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VOCATIONAL MINISTRY TRAINING AT LIBERTY
UNIVERSITY IN LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
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A Project
Presented to
the Faculty of
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
Doctor of Educational Ministry
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by
Jonathan Allen Geukgeuzian
May 2015
APPROVAL SHEET
VOCATIONAL MINISTRY TRAINING AT LIBERTY
UNIVERSITY IN LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
Jonathan Allen Geukgeuzian
Read and Approved by:
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Troy W. Temple (Faculty Supervisor)
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John David Trentham
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To my loving and Christ-honoring wife, Felicia, you have been one of the greatest
blessings I have received from Christ and an extraordinary encourager.
To our daughters, Mackenzi and Jordyn, you have been patient and kind, instruments
used by the Lord to refine me into who Christ wants me to be. I thank God for you both
and your encouragement to me.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
LIST OF TABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
LIST OF FIGURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Chapter
1. VOCATIONAL MINISTRY TRAINING AT LIBERTY
UNIVERSITY IN LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ministry Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rationale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Definitions and Limitations/Delimitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Research Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2. BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
OF MINISTRY TRAINING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Ministry Training in the Old Testament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Ministry Training in the New Testament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3. THEORETICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF EXPERIENTIAL
LEARNING FOR MINISTRY TRAINING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Historical Voices on Experiential Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Other Voices in Experiential Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4. DETAILS OF THE PROJECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Research Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Survey Instrument Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
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Chapter Page
Internship Expectations: Undergraduate Student Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Internship Satisfaction and Feedback Questionnaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Church Ministry Internship Questionnaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Comparative Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
5. EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Evaluation of the Project’s Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Evaluation of the Project’s Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Analysis of the Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Strengths of the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Weaknesses of the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Project Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Theological Reflection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Personal Reflection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Appendix
1. CHURCH MINISTRY INTERNSHIP QUESTIONNAIRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
2. INTERNSHIP EXPECTATIONS: UNDERGRADUATE
STUDENT SURVEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
3. INTERNSHIP SATISFACTION AND FEEDBACK
QUESTIONNAIRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4. CHURCH MINISTRY INTERNSHIP QUESTIONNAIRE: RESULTS . . . 102
5. INTERNSHIP EXPECTATIONS: UNDERGRADUATE
STUDENT SURVEY: RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
6. INTERNSHIP SATISFACTION AND FEEDBACK
QUESTIONNAIRE: RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
7. MINISTRY EXPERTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
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Table Page
1. Relations between the basic learning styles and five levels of behavior . . . 43
2. Participating churches: Attendance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
3. Participating churches: Pastors/staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
4. Participating churches: Interns/year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Church Ministry Internship Questionnaire
A1. Question 1: I consent to participate in the study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
A2. Question 2: Please provide the name of the church and its location . . . . . 102
A3. Question 3: Please provide the name of your senior/lead pastor . . . . . . . . 103
A4. Question 4: What is the church’s average weekly worship attendance? . . . 103
A5. Question 5: Does your church presently have interns serving in
Children’s Ministries, Youth Ministries, or Adult Ministries? . . . . . . . . . . 103
A6. Question 6: What type of intern program does your
church presently have? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
A7. Question 7: Approximately how many interns
serve at your church in one calendar year? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
A8. Question 8: Approximately how many full-time pastoral
staff does your church currently employ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
A9. Question 9: Approximately how many full-time NON-PASTORAL
staff does your church employ in Children’s Ministry, Youth
Ministry, and Adult Ministry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
A10. Question 10: Please rank in order of importance the things necessary
for an intern to learn or experience during their time at the church . . . . . . 105
A11. Question 11: Approximately how many times a month is
there intentional coaching/mentoring of interns by either a
full-time pastoral staff or full-time ministry staff? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
A12. Question 12a: Please briefly describe Lay Leadership Management
(volunteers) as it pertains to your church ministry and its interns . . . . . . . 106
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A13. Question 12b: Please briefly describe Ministry Experience
as it pertains to your church ministry and its interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
A14. Question 12c: Please briefly describe Ministry Leadership
as it pertains to your church ministry and its interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
A15. Question 12d: Please briefly describe Oral Communications
as it pertains to your church ministry and its interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
A16. Please briefly describe Organizational Leadership (within church
staff) as it pertains to your church ministry and its interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
A17. Question 12f: Please briefly describe Outreach (Campus or Community)
as it pertains to your church ministry and its interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
A18. Question 12g: Please briefly describe Personal Leadership
as it pertains to your church ministry and its interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
A19. Question 12h: Please briefly describe Personal Spiritual Development
as it pertains to your church ministry and its interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
A20. Question 12i: Please briefly describe Platform Leadership as it
pertains to your church ministry and its interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
A21. Question 12j: Please briefly describe Programming (calendar,
developing, organizing, and executing ministry programs) as
it pertains to your church ministry and its interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Internship Expectations: Undergraduate Student Survey
A22. Do you consent to participate in this study? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
A23. Question 1: What is your gender? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
A24. Question 2: What is your age? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
A25. Question 3: What is your academic classification? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
A26. Question 4: What is your Church Ministry concentration? . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
A27. Question 5: At what age did you become a follower of Christ? . . . . . . . . 122
A28. Question 6: At what age did you acknowledge a calling into
vocational gospel ministry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
A29. Question 7: What denominational affiliation best
describes your home church? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
A30. Question 8: Which best describes your home
environment in regards to church life? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
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A31. Question 9: Which of these best describe your home church
environment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
A32. Question 11: Which of these best describe your home church
involvement as an attender? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
A33. Question 12: Which of these best describe your current church
involvement as an attender? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
A34. Question 13: Have you served as a lay leader or volunteer
in your home church? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
A35. Question 14: Have you served as a lay leader or volunteer in
a church other than your home church? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
A36. Question 18: Approximately how many interns serve at
your home church in one calendar year? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
A37. Question 15: What role have you served as a lay leader in either your
home church or another church? (Please select all that apply) . . . . . . . . . . 136
A38. Question 16: Does your home church presently have interns serving
in Children’s Ministries, Youth Ministries, and/or Adult Ministries . . . . . 137
A39. Question 17: What type of intern program does your home
church presently have? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
A40. Question 19: Approximately how many full-time pastoral
staff does your home church currently employ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
A41. Question 20: Approximately how many full-time non-pastoral
staff does your home church employ in Children’s Ministry,
Youth Ministry, and Adult Ministry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
A42. Question 21: Please rank in order of importance the following ten
things you feel are necessary for an intern to learn or experience
during their time as an intern at the church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
A43. Question 22: Please rank by numbering 1-5 the top five qualities
you believe a student should possess if going into vocational
ministry aside from 1 Timothy 3/Titus 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
A44. Question 23: Approximately how many times a month do you think
an Intentional coaching/mentoring of interns should be done by
either a full-time pastoral staff or full-time ministry staff? . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
A45. Question 24: What expectations do you have of a host site for an
internship and what do you hope to gain from your
internship experience? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
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A46. Question 25a: From your perspective, briefly describe what you
hope to learn in the area of Lay Leadership Management
(volunteers) when serving as an intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
A47. Question 25b: From your perspective, briefly describe what you
hope to learn in the area of Ministry Experience when serving
as an intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
A48. Question 25d: From your perspective, briefly describe what you
hope to learn in the area of Oral Communications when serving
as an intern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
A49. Question 25e: From your perspective, briefly describe what you
hope to learn in the area of Organizational Leadership (within
church staff) when serving as an intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
A50. Question 25f: From your perspective, briefly describe what you
hope to learn in the area of Outreach (Campus or Community)
when serving as an intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
A51. Question 25g: From your perspective, briefly describe what you
hope to learn in the area of Personal Leadership when serving
as an intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
A52. Question 25h: From your perspective, briefly describe what you
hope to learn in the area of Personal Spiritual Development
when serving as an intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
A53. Question 25i: From your perspective, briefly describe what you
hope to learn in the area of Platform Leadership (Speaking or
Master Teacher) when serving as an intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
A54. Question 25j: From your perspective, briefly describe what you
hope to learn in the area of Programming (calendar, developing,
organizing, and executing ministry programs) when
serving as an intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Internship Satisfaction and Feedback Questionnaire
A55. Question 1: What is your current ministry role? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
A56. Question 2: How long have you served in full-time
vocational ministry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
A57. Question 3: Please provide the name of the church and its
location in which you completed your internship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
A58. Question 4: Please provide the name of the senior/lead pastor . . . . . . . . . 195
A59. Question 5: What best describes the role of your
immediate supervisor for your internship? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
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