2025-26 Fellows Program Application

Before moving forward with this application please application, (1) please thoroughly read the Fellowship Prospectus, and (2) please review the required list of documents before beginning this application, as you will not be able to save your work and return to it. Completion of this application does not guarantee acceptance in the fellowship. All responses will be considered in full.

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STANDARDS FOR CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
Standards for Christian Fellowship

The Center for Pastor Theologians exists to foster theological development in Christian Community. CPT is more than a forum for theological discussion; CPT seeks to nurture a camaraderie of ministers who engage in theological development in Christian fellowship. It is, therefore, important that fellows of the CPT uphold those virtues of Christlikeness which guard the integrity of Christian community. As a fellowship of ministers, we believe it is important to uphold, as a community, standards like the following, in personal conviction and practice as well as in our teaching ministries:

·HONESTY — As CPT fellows, we commit to pursue honesty in our speech and in our writing, privately as well as publicly. This includes a commitment to avoid plagiarism and to fairly represent those with whom we disagree in theological critique.

·CHARITY — We further commit to uphold charity in speech and action toward others. Far too often, theological controversy has been conducted with bitterness and spite. It dishonors the name of Christ when claims to biblical faithfulness are used as a guise for dressing sinful attitudes towards those with whom we disagree. For the sake of Christ and the health of his Body, the Church, we commit to pursue charity in our ministries within and outside the CPT fellowships.

·IMPARTIALITY — One of the hallmarks of the New Testament Church was its fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham that all nations would be blessed through the household of faith. In an era of racial tensions, we commit to uphold in our teaching and in our practice the racial and ethnic inclusiveness of Christ’s love.

·MORAL PURITY — We also commit to promote, in our ministries and in our own lives, the standards of sexual purity appointed in Scripture. We will uphold sexual purity both positively, in the encouragement of holy singleness and holy matrimony, and negatively, in abstaining from and opposing sexual misconduct (such as, sexual relations outside of marriage, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, same-gender sexual practice, and pornography).

·GRACE — The Gospel of Jesus Christ teaches us heaven’s unswerving demand for holiness as well as God’s abundant grace to restore and renew those who are repentant. While we commit to hold one another accountable to the high calling of holiness, we also commit to do so with the patience and mercy of Christ, as God grants us his help.

These are some of the areas of biblical virtue that we believe are vital to the spirit and practice of Christian fellowship as a theological community. Just as the CPT allows for a diversity of theological views within the firm boundaries of evangelical faith, so the CPT respects a diversity of views on many questions of practical godliness while holding to firm boundaries of biblical morality represented in the above statements. We pray for God’s grace to make us a testimony of his love in our fellowship around his Word.

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All CPT fellows are required to sign the above statement. If you were to be offered a spot in a fellowship, can you in good conscience affirm your agreement?

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CONFIRMATION & SIGNATURE
I acknowledge the annual fee expectation as outlined in the Fellowship Prospectus.

If accepted, I am willing and able to pay a monthly or annual feeIf accepted, I would request partial scholarship funding of the monthly or annual fee
I affirm that all of my statements above and in the attached documents are correct to the best of my knowledge. If accepted I agree to fulfill the responsibilities as outlined for the fellowship in the prospectus.

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