ICAS-Accredited Degree Program
Master of Arts in Kingdom Leadership
M.A. credential
Grow in the character and wisdom to encourage others, guide a team, and serve your church or community with Christian purpose.
Master of Arts in Kingdom Leadership: Your Grant Price
Applications are free. Eligible applicants receive their admission and Grant decision before any one-time program fee is requested.
Published tuition
$14,900.00
$599.00 Registry & Assessment Fee
$99
Master's Degree
2026 Life in Christ Grant is active
Ministry Experience, Evaluated Against Academic Standards.
Documented prior learning may be considered when it aligns with program outcomes; every credit decision follows academic review.
Program Overview
About this program
The M.A. in Kingdom Leadership works on strategy, teams, governance and leading change. Ministry leadership borrows heavily from management literature without examining what that literature assumes about people. This ICAS-accredited Kingdom of Life University program covers the biblical material, servant leadership examined rather than asserted, organisational theology, strategy, teams, governance, change, and the safeguards around power that must exist before the crisis rather than after it.
Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
Recognition of demonstrated learning in theology and ministry
Experienced ministry practitioners demonstrate competencies developed through years of service, theological study, and continuing learning. The assessment connects that learning with the published outcomes of the Master of Arts in Kingdom Leadership through biblical understanding, theological reflection, research, and ministry judgment.
70
Audited questions in this pathway bank
30
Questions drawn for each sitting
60 minutes
Time available for the knowledge component
24 hours
Interval before reassessment
Theological knowledge and degree outcomes
- Published bank title
- Kingdom Leadership - Master Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
- Credential
- Master of Arts (M.A.) in Kingdom Leadership
- Question construction
- 14 pathway subject-bank sources contribute 5 questions each, producing the complete 70-question bank.
How completion is reported
- The knowledge component contributes 40% and assessed ministry experience contributes 60% to one weighted result.
- The reported result is no lower than 80%, matching the 80% degree pass mark.
- Reassessment draws a fresh question set and is included in program access, with no additional fee or limit on sittings.
- The integrated assessment covers the published degree plan; separate course assessments, a capstone paper, and a dissertation defense are not required.
Program Objectives
What you will achieve
Integrate advanced theological study, spiritual maturity, and ministry wisdom for Christian leadership
Ground leadership practice in theology rather than in borrowed management language
Build teams and structures that serve a stated purpose
Lead change at a pace the community can absorb
Hold power accountably and build safeguards in advance
Learning Outcomes
Skills and competencies you will develop
Synthesize advanced biblical and theological evidence for clear teaching, leadership, and ministry judgment
Produce a strategic plan that states what the organisation will stop doing
Design a team structure with clear roles and decision rights
Plan a change process with stated resistance points and checkpoints
Draft accountability safeguards covering power, money, and conduct
Career Opportunities
Where this degree can take you
Church executive leader
Ministry director
Christian nonprofit leader
Leadership development facilitator
Major Subject Areas
The fourteen subjects you study, and the ones the ministry assessment draws on
Foundational and Major-Core Subjects
Four foundations every pathway shares, then four that belong to this field.
Advanced Biblical Interpretation
Reading the leadership narratives without turning them into management parables, which is the commonest abuse of Scripture in this field.
Advanced Old Testament Theology
The Old Testament's leaders — judges, kings, prophets — presented with their failures intact, and what the narrator declines to excuse.
Advanced New Testament Theology
The New Testament on authority, service and church order, including the passages that make ambition uncomfortable.
Advanced Christian Doctrine
The doctrine of power: its origin, its corruption, and the accountability that a serious doctrine of sin requires of institutions.
Advanced Biblical Foundations of Leadership
Leadership in the biblical material, covering the range of figures and offices and the difficulty of reading them as management models.
Advanced Servant Leadership
Servant leadership examined rather than asserted, covering its sources, the evidence for it, and the ways the language has been used to avoid accountability.
Advanced Organizational Theology
Organisational theology, covering what an institution is theologically and why structure is a moral rather than merely practical matter.
Advanced Strategic Ministry Leadership
Strategy in ministry settings, covering purpose, priorities, resourcing, and the discipline of deciding what not to do.
Specialization Subjects
Six more that take the field into the places it actually gets used.
Advanced Team Formation
Building teams, covering recruitment, role clarity, trust, conflict, and the conditions under which teams actually outperform individuals.
Advanced Governance and Stewardship
Governance and stewardship, covering boards, accountability structures, conflict of interest, and the protection that good governance provides.
Advanced Leading Change
Leading change, covering sequencing, resistance, coalition, communication, and the pace at which a community can actually absorb change.
Advanced Leadership Ethics
Leadership ethics, covering power, its abuse, transparency, and the safeguards that have to exist before they are needed.
Advanced Spiritual Formation and Christian Vocation
The leader's character, formed or deformed by the work, and the practices that make the difference.
Advanced Integrative Theology and Ministry
A leadership project with a strategic or structural intervention, implemented and evaluated for durable change.
Admission Requirements
What you need to apply
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited or recognized institution
- Official transcripts showing preparation appropriate to graduate theological study
- Statement of theological, academic, and ministry goals
- Current resume or curriculum vitae
- Two ministry, professional, or academic recommendations
Degree Completion Requirements
Requirements for the Master of Arts
Graduation Requirements
- Complete at least 36 graduate semester credits in the approved degree plan
- Pass the Competency-Based Ministry Assessment for the degree
- Satisfy every graduate-core, specialization, elective, and comprehensive requirement group
- Integrate theological knowledge with assessed ministry experience under the published result-weighting policy
- Recognize demonstrated learning against every published degree-plan requirement
Culminating Experience
Demonstrate graduate theological understanding and ministry judgment through Competency-Based Ministry Assessment, recognizing advanced learning developed through prior study and service.
Credit Distribution
| Requirement Area | Credits | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Graduate Core | 21 | 7 courses. Required advanced theory, methods, and professional competencies of the discipline. |
| Graduate Specialization | 9 | 3 courses. Focused graduate study in an approved concentration or practice area. |
| Graduate Elective | 3 | 1 course. Any master-level major course from any school that is not already part of this degree plan. |
| Competency-Based Ministry Assessment | 3 | 1 course. Integrated graduate theological knowledge and assessed ministry experience, recognizing demonstrated learning across the published degree plan. |
| Total Degree Credits | 36 | All requirements must be completed within the approved degree plan. |
Program Details
Program Length
Self-Paced
Self-Paced Learning
Total Credits
36 credit hours
Up to 18 Transfer Credits
Published Degree Plan
12 courses
Across 4 required curriculum groups
Format
Flexible Study
Assessment Format
Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
Selected Degree
Master
School
School of Theology and Ministry
Institutional Status
ICAS Accredited
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