COU509 Spiritual Formation & Identity
This course will help students understand the various biblical truths, spiritual disciplines, and processes that provide a foundation for personal spiritual formation. Students will be challenged to personally pursue godliness through regularly practicing and participating in the various disciplines and processes associated with spiritual formation. The class will help students understand how spiritual formation helps the Christian develop a biblical concept of self and identity. Theological concepts like union with Christ will help students grasp the significance of Jesus’s identity in the spiritual formation of a Christians’ identity.
Credits: 3
Student learning outcomes
- Know and articulate the various biblical truths, spiritual disciplines, and processes that lead to spiritual formation.
- Create a plan for improving personal spiritual formation through practicing spiritual disciplines.
- Understand how the Christians union with Christ and spiritual formation transforms a Christians identity and concept of self.
- Experience the blessings of confidence and security that comes from being in union with Christ.