This course provides an opportunity for the student, who is about to graduate, to organize everything that has been taught at the seminary and gather it in one place. And this is done with the cooperation of the other students with the help of the professor and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The most important basic doctrines are reviewed to reveal any gaps, weaknesses or questions that need to be addressed. In a similar fashion, practical ministry issues in relation to God, the world, and believers are reviewed. This includes the nature of the local church, the difference between the church and the parachurch, church ordinances (breaking of bread and baptism), church worship, expository preaching, church belongingness, discipleship, counseling, correction (discipline), kinds of leadership (pastor, elders, and deacons), ordination (laying on of hands), the role of women, decision-making, recourse to the courts, marriage and divorce, child-rearing, evangelism, missions, contextualization, pornography, sexual perversion, including homosexuality and transgenderism (LGBTQ). The course also covers the meaning of the unity of the Body of Christ. This includes dealing with uncommon doctrines, distinguishing between common and uncommon doctrines, and maintaining unity by balancing freedom of conviction and love in relationship. The student puts everything he or she has gathered in one document that is presented at the end of the course.
