I have met many people while on mission trips who have studied at Moody, and I know that it is considered a very high-quality, Bible-based program. The people I have met have all spoken very highly about the programs they completed.
I am a senior at Moody and I am in good standing with a good GPA. I have been in the distance learning program for 3 years. I will be ashamed to say a graduated from MBI because it is becoming more liberal every day. The doctrine of years past is being set aside for post-modernism masked as christian virtues. The school is teaching contrary to the Moody Handbook of Theology in many ways. Catholicism is now the oldest Christian denomination. It does not matter what you believe about creation as long as we agree God did it. These are just some of the apostate ideas that are being passed off as christian doctrine at Moody.
In addition, I came to Moody to learn the Bible so I might know God better and be able to better communicate Him to people in this lost and hurting world. Instead what I am learning is how to critically interact with liberal biblical scholarship, how to be Politically Correct, and Psychology. I actually learned the sexual stages of children as taught by Feud for my Education class. In my Genesis class not one of my textbooks was written by a person that professed faith in Christ. In my Romans Class after 6 weeks of an eight week class one of my classmates said he did not know what they wanted him to believe. Now, for my Capstone class I am reading a book that is praised for its ecumenicalism and my classmates are eating it up. That is right the last thing moody wants to impart to its students before they graduate is ecumenicalism.
I used to wonder why the evangelical church was dieing and how could evangelical schools produce someone like Rob Bell. Now I know. With training like this for future church leaders it is no wonder we are such a post-modern mess and MBI is thought of as conservative. If you are reading this and thinking about going to MBI, please reconsider, SBTS and TMS both have undergrad programs, I know if I could do it over again that is where I would go. You can look me up on facebook if you don't believe that I am actually a student.
Oh, one more thing. Distance learning though MBI is a bureaucratic nightmare. Especially if you are a VA student. I was told that if i did not want to get locked out of blackboard and receive letters and emails that my account was bad for every class I was enrolled in, that is was my responsibility to get in touch with every department every term and inform them that I am a VA student.
This certificate program is a great way for individuals whom may have a lower undergraduate GPA or, not as concrete of an interest in a complete degree program within the Biblical studies arena. However, if upon completion the learner discovers a deeper passion to continue their theological studies, this program certificate carries over into the degree program. Therefore the learner will not loose the credits earned.
Another good use for this certificate is for any lay learner that has no desire to become a pastor or educator of theology, yet desires to personally grow in the knowledge of theology.
