ACU College of Biblical Studies
The College of Biblical Studies provides students with the instruction and experience needed to prepare them for ministry and service in God's Kingdom.
Kester and Rachel Smith will be hosting an informal gathering for CBS (GST and DBMM) students, faculty, and staff tonight from 7-9. Drinks and snacks will be provided. If you're part of the CBS community, we hope to see you.
Also, it's not too late to RSVP to [email protected], if you get the chance. If you don't, just come join us anyway.
12/09/2017
Alexander Campbell This 18th century Irishman became one of the founders of the Disciples of Christ and the Church of Christ.
08/09/2017
Our DBMM juniors and seniors as well as faculty and staff are invited to attend as well. Hope to see you there!
Today is the feast day of Augustine of Hippo
Welcome back students, faculty, and staff! Blessings on all of you as a new school year begins.
23/08/2017
The Fall semester has almost begun and CBS is hosting an ice cream social for our juniors, seniors and graduate students, as well as all CBS faculty and staff. We will meet at Jacob's Dream from 7-8pm on Thursday, August 31st. Families are welcome.
Please RSVP with Kester Smith at [email protected], if you plan to attend. Thank you.
22/08/2017
Former ACU Graduate School of Theology student and DBMM instructor Amy McLaughlin-Sheasby writes about preaching in the present tense.
Leaving the Museum: Daring to Preach in Present Tense Once when I was in college, sitting in one of my Bible classes at Lipscomb University, I wandered into a peculiarly vivid daydream. Now, before I tell you about my daydream, I should probably issue an apology to any of my college professors who ever lost me to my daydreaming. The fault was certainly
17/08/2017
The ACU Graduate School of Theology and NCYM are partnering together on an exciting new opportunity.
NCYM & ACU Partner to offer Spiritual Formation Grad Class ACU’s Graduate School of Theology will offer BIBM 648 Spiritual Formation at NCYM Professor: Dr. Houston Heflin Course Description Christian Spiritual Formation is the process of being confor…
17/08/2017
An important word from alumnus Sean Palmer.
Why Christians Are Incapable of Racial Healing - Missio Alliance “Do they know you can talk about other things?” was the question my friend and partner in podcasting, John Alan Turner, asked. It stung me. I’d mentioned to John that I was headed for another speaking trip where I’d be talking about racial justice and reconciliation. For most of my ministry I tried…
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"...every preacher should be 'heard' more by his deeds than by his words. Moreover, the footprint of his good living should be that path that others follow rather than the sound of his voice showing them where to go...For it is certainly necessary that those who offer the words of holy preaching must first be vigilant in the zeal of good works...Only then should they tell others how to live their lives. Let them first correct their own sins through tears and then denounce what is punishable in others. But before they offer any words of exhortation, they should proclaim by their actions everything that they wish to say."
St. Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule
"...the one who is compelled by [their] position to speak of the highest things is also compelled, by necessity, to show the highest things by [their] example."
St. Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule
"Somehow we American pastors, without really noticing what was happening, got our vocations redefined in the terms of American careerism. We quit thinking of the parish as a location for pastoral spirituality and started thinking of it as an opportunity for advancement...
The moment we did that, we started thinking wrongly, for the vocation of pastor has to do with living out the implications of the word of God in community, not sailing off into the exotic seas of religion in search of fame and fortune."
Eugene Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant
"No one presumes to teach an art that [they have] not first mastered through study. How foolish it is therefore for the inexperienced to assume pastoral authority when the care of souls is the art of arts. For who does not realize that the afflictions of the mind are more hidden than the internal wounds of the body? And yet, how often do they who are completely ignorant of spiritual precepts profess themselves to be physicians of the heart, while anyone who is ignorant of the power of medicine is too embarrassed to be seen as a physician of the body."
St. Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule