Master of Arts in Biblical Leadership

Overview

The CBTE Master of Arts in Biblical Leadership (MABL) is a two-year program in which you complete your degree in the context for which you are training to serve. Mentors, instructional seminars, and learning experiences guide you in developing the knowledge, skill, and character competencies essential for effective ministry at a lay, coordinator, director, board, and/or associate pastor level in a local church and a coordinator, director, manager, board, and/or executive level in a parachurch ministry, not-for-profit organization, and/or a marketplace and/or secular organization context.

Program Type & Languages

12 Outcomes
38 Credit Hours
2-3 Year Completion Date

> Based on the principles of competency-based theological education

> Self-paced learning completed in your ministry context

> Teaching, reading, assignments and mentoring directly related to your ministry position

> Directed by a mentor team

> Ladders into the CBTE Master of Divinity

EN | ES | FR |

The CBTE MABL is available in English, spanish and French.

The French-language CBTE MABL is offered in partnership with SEMBEQ. This is a two-year program completed over three years, with tuition prorated over three years instead of two.

Be fully equipped for ministry by training in the context in which you serve.

Program Objectives

Purpose:

Learners who receive the Master of Arts in Biblical Leadership (MABL) will be equipped to develop biblically grounded, theologically formed, and culturally engaged leaders who demonstrate competence in biblical interpretation and contextual application of biblical principles in their vocation, community, and culture.

Program Learning Objectives:

BIBLICALLY & THEOLOGICALLY FORMED: Apply and teach Scripture in light of its redemptive, historical and literal context. Evaluate how the concerns, methods, and ethics of historical and modern Christian thinkers should or shouldn’t influence our responses to modern questions, challenges, and opportunities
RESOURCEFUL AND RESILIENT LEADER: Capably and humbly lead and mentor with deepened self-awareness and demonstrated social management skills.
WISE AND ETHICAL INFLUENCER: Discern, communicate and apply Biblical principles to cultural contexts both inside and outside of the church in creative and original ways that make sense in light of the language, values and concerns of the hearers
CULTURALLY ENGAGED: Examine timely questions, challenges and opportunities in Canadian culture. Formulate and embody a personal ethic for action that demonstrates respect and builds rapport in their spheres of influence.
A SELF & ENVIRONMENTALLY AWARE ACTIVATOR: Proactively evaluate your surroundings in a self-aware, self-directed way to serve, lead, accomplish tasks, and grow in a variety of ministry contexts.

Requirements

Employment in your ministry context
Endorsement from your ministry leadership team
Approval from your network/denomination leadership
One of the following
- An undergraduate degree from an accredited institution with at least a 2.50 GPA OR
- Age 28 with at least 60 credits of undergraduate studies (min 2.50 GPA) showing, upon review by Admissions and/or the Northwest Dean’s Office, achievement of the knowledge, character, and skill competencies needed to enter and excel in a graduate-level CBTE program at Northwest OR
- Age 28 or older (or to the discretion of the Academic Dean) with life and/or ministry experience showing, upon review by Admissions and/or the Northwest Dean’s Office, achievement of the knowledge, character, and skill competencies needed to enter and excel in a graduate-level CBTE program at Northwest

Application Requirements

Inquiry

Interested applicants employed or connected with one of our partner networks must contact their network lead. Those unconnected to a partner organization are asked to contact Northwest.

Assessment

Each partner network operates their own assessment in consultation with Northwest on academic requirements.

Application

Those who successfully complete the assessment process are invited to apply to the CBTE Master of Biblical Leadership degree.

Sample Outcomes

Partners

Northwest partners with churches and missional organizations to deliver custom programming through our Context-Based Theological Education model, and ultimately endorse graduates for ministry leadership positions. If you are not connected to, or a member of, any of the following organizations, please contact Northwest.