OBJECTIVE: The New England Center for Expository Preaching (NECEP) seeks to assist conservative, evangelical Christian men who desire to become the next generation of expository preachers.
PREREQUISITES: The NECEP internship is a course designed for seminary students who are currently enrolled in an accredited / participating seminary, and are seeking to become expository preachers. Students who have completed 2/3 of the required credit hours towards their Masters of Divinity degree and have their homiletics completed will be given first priority to participate.
Each intern must arrive with a road worthy / reliable car.
INTERNSHIP REQUIREMENTS: Like a medical internship, students will be called upon to perform various 24/7. It is impossible to hold a second job during the internship, and based on previsions interns, it is recommended that no one attempt to take an on line course while participating in the internship. (There simply will not be enough time.)
SPECIFICS:
1. Each intern will prepare and deliver an original expository sermon an assigned passage each week. This sermon will be proclaimed in the church whose pastor has chosen the passage. The pastor and several members of the congregation will critique the sermon. Copies of the sermon, and the critiques will be returned to the faculty member who is overseeing the particular student. Plagiarism will not be tolerated.
2. Each intern will watch/listen to 10-15 hours of sermons per week. These sermons will be from theologians such as Mohler, Dever, MacArthur, Sproul, Anyabwile, Lutzer, Davey, Lawson, Akin, Begg, etc. etc. etc. Even a few Catholic homilies will be slipped into the mix for comparison purposes.
3. Each intern will be assigned a “host church” where they will participate fully as a “guest member.” The pastor of the host church will be available to mentor the student; however, he will not advise the student how to write the sermon.
4. Once per month there will be a one hour Q&A session. Precisely when this occurs is dependent on the theologian.
5. Each intern will have roughly 15 hours of pastoral duties to perform each week; such as visitation, elder/council/MAT meetings, denominational meetings, pastors’ fellowships, funerals, etc. etc. etc. (Anything that a pastor might do during a week is a possible assignment.)
6. Each intern will keep a journal from the moment that they get up in the morning until they time they go to bed each night. Thoughts about sermons delivered, listened to, Q&A sessions, visitation, etc. will go into the journal. The journal will be scanned and sent to the faculty member weekly.
NECEP reserves the right to send any intern home who is not participating fully.
