Next Level Movement Thinking

A specialized degree aimed to help you reflect critically about movements and engage rigorously in theological and missiological dialogue in an advanced learning cohort of catalytic thinkers. This is a practical and professional initiative centered on the dynamic intersection of culture, theology, and movement. The initiative provides unique opportunities for collaborative thinking and application of a movemental scenius in your context. It will deepen your faith, challenge your paradigms, and help you develop personal, ministry, and intellectual habits so you flourish in God’s movement.

The Movement Leaders Collective's DMin initiative is especially interested in thought leaders who demonstrate dynamic and innovative thinking in the following areas:

  • Trinitarian Christocentrism

  • Movement Dynamics

  • Missiological Theology

  • APEST Leadership

  • Adaptive Ecclesiology

  • Theology and Praxis in Community

Open Day

Recorded on February 20, 2023

An open day for the Movement Leaders Collective's Doctor of Ministry initiative. Learn more about an affordable, accessible, and accredited seminary education designed especially for innovative movement thinkers.
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Who we are looking for:

Participants in the MLC Doctor of Ministry degree are not simply students enrolled in a self-paced program. They join an active learning community of like-minded experts and other explorers who have inculcated mDNA into their systems. If this is you, we would love to welcome you into a creative and innovative community.

Our typical student is a movement leader who . . .

  • Lives as if Jesus is actually Lord.

  • Makes disciples who make more disciples.

  • Is animated by a missional-incarnational impulse.

  • Naturally inspires an APEST culture in their work.

  • Creates organic systems appropriate for growth.

  • Joins with others in a risky adventure on God's mission.

Your Next Level Pathway

Deepen not simply your knowledge base about movements, but also your proficiency in its application to your context through doctoral-level research.

    1. The Doctor of Ministry with the Movement Leaders Collective

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    2. About the Movement Leaders Collective

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    3. Welcome to the DMin from Kairos University

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    4. Instructions for the Application

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    5. How to use this LMS player

    6. If You Entered the DMin Program Without an MDiv Degree...Read This!!!

    7. Revisit the DMin Outcome Descriptions

    8. Doctor of Ministry Handbook

    1. Academic Integrity

    2. Writing Academic Book Reviews

    3. Writing a Seminary Paper

    4. Resources for Academic Research

    5. Writing & Style Guides

    1. Instructions for the MDiv Equivalency Learning Experiences

    2. The Study of the Ephesian Movement

    3. Foundations for a Missiology of Movements

    4. Practices of the Ancient Church

    5. Missiological Theology

    6. Movemental Ecclesiology

    1. Live Two-Day mDNA Refresh

    2. The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating Apostolic Movements

    3. Jesus is Lord

    4. Discipleship and Disciple-Making

    5. Missional-Incarnational Impulse

    6. APEST Environment

    7. Organic Systems

    8. Liminality/Communitas

    1. Expected Learning Outcome

    2. Starting Well

    1. Expected Learning Outcome

    2. Effective Project Design

    3. Reading Reflection Report - Sensing

    4. Reading Reflection Report - Cameron & Duce

    5. Proposal Questionnaire

    6. What is a Doctor of Ministry project?

    7. Project Proposal Template

    8. Submit your project proposal document here

    9. Directed Learning Experience Proposal Form #1

    10. Directed Learning Experience Proposal Form #2

About this course

  • $300.00 / month
  • Learn in Community
  • Contextual Application

The Doctor of Ministry is . . .

A transformational journey of movemental scenius focused on imaginatively missional approaches to Gospel, Church, and Engagement

  • Affordable

    Only $300 per month.

  • Accessible

    From anywhere in the world.

  • Relevant

    Customized learning for your goals.

  • Faithful

    Rooted in Jesus Christ.

Our Educational Philosophy

This is your education and our focus is on you, not simply as a student, but as a fellow learner on a journey to develop an expertise in innovative movement dynamics, vocational skills that will lead generative movements, and character motivated by your identity in Christ.

  • Character Development

    ✔️Deepen your faith as you follow Jesus.

    ✔️Participate in a journey of discipleship and formation that invites you to embody the way of Jesus as co-laborer on God’s mission.

    ✔️Learn to integrate your faith and your vocation so that what you do is shaped by who you are as a follower of Jesus.

  • Vocational Excellence

    ✔️Develop skills across a wide array of disciplines (e.g. Bible, theology, missiology, leadership, spirituality, and more).

    ✔️Learn to communicate effectively in your culture and in the world around you.

    ✔️Be equipped for a life-time of service of church planting and training church planters.

  • Proficiency Learning

    ✔️Develop patterns of thinking that reflect biblical, theological, historical, contextual, and vocational realities.

    ✔️Demonstrate your learning through a portfolio of learning that provides evidence of who you are, what you can do, and where you thrive.

    ✔️Learn in the context of real-life situations rather than fabricated classroom experiences.

Tuition and Fees

Our unique subscription plan gives you financial options for your seminary education!

$25 gets you started with the application. Then, $300 per month keeps you enrolled in the degree.
The DMin degree is a total of 36 credit hours and can be completed in an estimated 1,500 hours. The more diligently you progress through the program the less you pay in tuition. We do this to incentivize your hard work and help you steward the financial resources God has given you. If life gets in the way, simply cancel your subscription and re-subscribe when your calendar permits.
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The Genius is the Room

Catalyzing Jesus Movements to Shift the Tracks of History

The Movement Leaders Collective provides a catalyst for movement leadership and a community for movement leaders across gender, geography, race, and ethnicity. The mission of MLC is to identify, train, and empower 100 Jesus-movements and 1,000 Christlike leaders using the mDNA framework to become dynamic, innovative, and generative movements able to shift the tracks of history.
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In partnership with Kairos University

Affordable. Accessible. Relevant. Faithful.

Kairos University is a global system of theological education that provides opportunities for students to build entirely customized educational journeys that are affordable, accessible, relevant, and faithful. The University has a campus in Sioux Falls, South Dakota with offices throughout the United States and Canada, partnerships with organizations around the world, and students from nearly every continent.

The university is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools and The Higher Learning Commission. Learn more by clicking the button below.
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