Why this course?
While preaching and teaching are the primary spiritual responsibilities of the pastor, there is another side of pastoral leadership that must not be overlooked or underemphasized- the business and management side. Pastors are not managers in a corporate-business-world-publicly-traded-company sort-of-way. But pastors are shepherds. And shepherds manage sheep. The vast majority of pastoral roles include management. Even at the most basic level, churches require management. Who pays the bills? When does the meeting start? Who is responsible for the different functions? Who keeps the records? What is our policy? These are just a few basic managerial questions.

BSM Online is privileged to have a guest teacher with a wide managerial experience. We welcome Mr. Ronald Amigo.
Current Position:
Asst. Dept Head – Mayor’s Office, City of Roxas
Program Manager – Fred Hollows Foundation
Education:
UP Visayas – BS History
CPC (Collegio dela Purisima Concepcion) – Juris Doctor
ANU (Australian National university) – Masters in Public Policy

“Discipleship is also for children” is the next focus of the BSM Online course that starts this week. Ministry to children in local churches is not baby sitting so the parents can attend church services undisturbed. It should be another ministry to be labeled “HANDLE WITH CARE”. It should be done as intentional and systematic as how we do it with adults so that children will know Jesus as Lord and Savior and are guided to grow as His true disciples.

A distinctive and most important lesson in this BSM Online course on Discipleship is the What, Why, and How of a Discipleship Framework. A FRAMEWORK is basic structure that can serve as support, guide for something that can be built and expanded. The framework also indicates what parts are needed and how they would interrelate. A framework for discipleship therefore is a basic structure that also indicates what actions, programs, activities, and curriculum to use to achieve the goal. The framework will provide creativity in the discipling methods at the same time helps in keeping the expanding discipling efforts in the right focus. These questions will be dealt with using the Destiny City Church “Moving Experience” discipleship framework as model.

BSM Online students did not miss the benefits and all the fun of studying together. Assignments were designed to make them research, discuss and study together.

The BSM Online students starts the Homiletics course under Rev. Rey Calusay and will be demonstrating their preaching skill at the end of the course. Training men and women called of God how to communicate the gospel is a very essential component of the training in BSM. Preaching is God’s chosen method of communicating His will and Purpose for man man. Preaching is a faithful declaration of the whole counsel of God, by a man sent by God, with the purpose of persuading men to respond positively to God. It is the declaration of the grace of God to human need on the authority of the throne of God and it demands on the part of those who hear that they show obedience to the thing declared.

BSM Online kicks off the year 2022 with an analytical study of the earthly life and ministry of Christ as presented in the Gospel of John, focusing on the presentation of the deity of Jesus Christ and the importance of faith in Him. Historical events and developments in the intertestamental times as they relate to the preparation of the birth of the Messiah and later to the spread of the gospel Message, as well as the major descriptions of the New Testament world will be studied as an introduction. A short survey of the synoptic gospels is also included.

COURSE OUTLINE:

1. Introduction: The World of the New Testament & The Four Gospels
2. Structure and Purpose of John’s Gospel
3. Prologue 1:1-18
4. Period of Consideration 1:19-4:54
5. Period of Controversy 5,6
6. Period of Conflict & Crisis 7-11:53; 11:54-12:36a
7. Period of Conference 12:36b- 17:26
8. Period of Consummation 18-20
9. Epilogue 21

BSM Online course on counseling. This is another course in equipping students in their ministry as responders to people who request for help through our HELPO CARD. Its is equipping them how to help people find courage, perspective and direction. The course was taught Australian-based guest teacher Rev. Helen Bates.

Urbanization refers to a process in which an increasing proportion of an entire population lives in cities and the suburbs of cities. Urbanization has effects on the ecology and economy of the region. But sociologists observe that people’s psychology and lifestyles change in an urban environment.
We should realize that most of the people in the last days will be urban people. We should equip ourselves for effective evangelism for the urban unreached. This course is designed to equip church church leaders to face the challenges of urban ministry.

The Philippines has more than 1,608 towns and cities with a significant number of conversion of municipalities into cities. In the year 2000, 16 new cities were created and 15 more were converted in the first half of 2001, bringing the total number of cities to 115. Just this year, more cities were proposed to be created. By the year 2020, it is estimated that the country will have more or less 600 cities and urban centers.