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43 DMS - LEADERSHIP IN COMMUNITY SPIRITUAL FORMATION CONCENTRATION For core electives, also see DML-820 DMS-801 Leadership in Community Spiritual Formation Individual and corporate spiritual formation in community leads to mission in the world. In this seminar, students learn how to follow God's unique path to move into this kind of community. The seminar emphasizes leading entire communities in spiritual formation out of the leader's own formation while respecting where everyone is in their spiritual journey. Students will learn how spiritual formation can become the means to move God's people to accomplish the ministry he is calling them to do. Required for DMS Concentration. Three hours. DMS-811 Integrating Spiritual & Leadership Principles Spiritual leaders often struggle integrating leadership principles with spiritual formation. Too often, leadership and spiritual formation are seen to be at odds with one another. This tends to create Christian leaders who are not very attentive to spiritual issues or spiritual leaders who cannot effectively lead others. In this seminar, students will have an opportunity to reflect on how leadership and spiritual formation go together. Students will discuss various ways that spiritual formation informs leadership and consider practical ways leadership can assist in the spiritual development of others. This seminar also counts as a core elective for Leadership in Preaching and Pastoral Ministry (DMP course code) and Church & Parachurch Executive Leadership (DML course code). Three hours. DMS-812 How to Develop a Biblically Based Spiritual Journey With its serious attention to doctrine and action, evangelicalism appears to have under-emphasized the inner life. One of the results is that Christians have often been left without direction in developing a personal spiritual journey. This can lead in non-biblical directions. In this seminar, an integrated model of theology, spirituality and care-giving will be developed. Students will learn how this model can then be used to cultivate a biblically based spiritual journey. Three hours. DMS-813 Spiritual Mentoring: The Ministry of Evangelical Soul Care God is leading the church today to recapture the Christian ministry of soul care that offers rich resources for spiritual growth in wholeness and holiness. This seminar explores the biblical and theological basis for spiritual mentoring or soul care, and develops a sound approach to growing disciplines in relationship with Christ, in practical obedience, and in fruitfulness of life. Three hours. DMS-814 Ministry Effectiveness through Personal Growth in Christian Spirituality Neglecting the inner life in our drive to succeed has forced us to repair what has been neglected: lives, marriages and careers wounded by a lack of preventative care and cure of souls (spirituality). In this seminar, students will explore spiritual development that experiences the joy and power of the Spirit. Students will discuss relevant scripture and consider historic models of spiritual life and nurture. Other topics include: experiencing heart-intimacy with God, cultivating a contemplative lifestyle, and spiritual disciplines and spiritual direction that can lead to recovering the joy and power of the Spirit in personal life and leadership. Three hours. DMS-815 Interpersonal & Corporate Spiritual Formation Spiritual formation emphasizes the spiritual disciplines necessary to develop a relationship with God that helps us become more like him. But spiritual formation is not just a matter of a disciplined person developing spiritually without the help of others. In this seminar, students will learn how their interaction with others and their corporate worship and ministry work together to form them spiritually. They will learn how the practice of giving and receiving grace is basic to spiritual formation. Three hours.