When you earn your Bachelor in Biblical Studies with emphasis on the Five-Fold Ministry from ARIZE Institute of the Five-Fold Ministry and Bible College, you’ll receive training to interpret and communicate scriptural truths effectively, wherever God calls you. You’ll use research methodologies to learn how to study the Bible and integrate historical, geographical, and cultural insights into your process of biblical interpretation.  In your last year of the program, you will be involved intensively - in the field with an approved program of study with your chosen mentor. Field education is central to this program. Through contextual learning in churches and organizations students practice the skills of ministry, discern God’s call on their life and vocation, and reflect theologically with an experienced supervisor. You’ll graduate equipped to interpret and apply the Scriptures and serve effectively in ministry or the marketplace.

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The last semester of the 4th year of this degree focuses on and generates progression in the student's Field Contextual Education Study. It is Bible-based and consists of the training and development of the five offices described in Ephesians 4:11-12.  The Field Study consists of five auxiliaries:

1) The Call of the Apostles; 

2) The Call of The Prophets;

3) The Call of The Evangelists;

4) The Call of The Pastors, and

5) The Call of The Teachers. 

Agreed upon by the Academic Field Education Advisors/Deans collaboration between the selected supervisor and the student will teach, train, report progress, and spiritually enhance the student's spiritual journey, anointing, and progression in their calling to be an apostle, prophet, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, maturing them for in Christ for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.

"Theological education must have the practical experiences of field education to truly be a well-rounded and well-informed education. One approach to ministry that works in one setting may not be fruitful in the next. Our Triune God reveals that God is dynamic, fluid, and diverse. The same can be said for ministry and how we should approach ministry as an entire unit."

The Five-Fold Ministry which is the church government (how the church of Christ is operated using five individuals instead of one or two is based upon the ministry of men and women who have been divinely called and anointed with one of five ministry gifts listed in Eph 4:11.  These gifts are given by Jesus Christ according to Ephesians 4:11 for the perfecting of the saints.

The church is expected to adapt towards those who possess such giftings and follow the concepts given to the leaders by the Holy Spirit, which is the third partner of the Triune Godheads.  

For the church to experience New Testament results, it must recapture the New Testament pattern. The Five-Fold ministry is a demand for the church to be the Lord’s church in this age. Education is essential, but today, we need more than education or ambition within the Church’s government. The Church is absent of at least four (4) representatives of the Five-Fold Ministry and because of such, this gives the rise to ARIZE Institute of the Five-Fold Ministry and Bible College. To seek and fill those inadequacies. For the effective working of the church, He gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ (Ephesians 4:11,12). All these ministries have specific roles in the edification of the church.

Jesus is the first apostle sent by God and He had all these five ministries in Himself. He chose the twelve disciples and they were anointed with the mantle of Five-Fold ministry. But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift (Ephesians 4:7).

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