STUDENT LIFE
Learn more about life as an MBC student, our campus, and our area.
Welcome to MBC
MBC offers an exciting community with endless opportunities to get involved. Billings is an exceptional setting. Our students enjoy easy access to outdoor recreation like backpacking, snowboarding and skiing, biking, hunting and fishing. The many businesses in Billings provide employment opportunities. And ministry opportunities abound with local churches, college ministries, and other organizations.
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Student Activities
Student activities are part of your relational fabric at MBC!
There are informal activities like: game nights, shared meals, hiking, bonfires, attending concerts, floating the river, and many more.
There are school-sponsored activities like: visiting Yellowstone National Park, Thanksgiving Meal, Serving at the Montana Rescue Mission, Christmas Banquet, Local Farm Outing, and more.
Discipleship
"What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also."
2 Timothy 2:2
Our Discipleship Goals
Our understanding of discipleship leads MBC to work toward the following goals for our students as we intentionally direct them through our relationship with them.
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Each student will experience personal growth and maturity in Christ.
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Each graduate will be committed to engage in discipleship within the local church and surrounding world.
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Each graduate will be equipped to effectively disciple others, who will then disciple others.
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Each graduate will be committed to a life of disciple-making.
Our Heart for Discipleship
Montana Bible College believes that discipleship is at the very core - it's built right into our mission to "equip disciple-makers for the glory of God and the advancement of His Church."
We believe that the calling by Jesus to be disciple-makers is a matter of obedience for all His followers and is, therefore, a necessary component of Christian theological education.
Our Process of Discipleship Training
To train students to be actively and perpetually engaged in discipleship, MBC has created a specific disciple-making curriculum as well as intentional discipleship opportunities to be a part of every student's experience.
We not only desire and encourage our students to be disciple-makers, we want them to graduate with the necessary skills to be effective in the endeavor. We are convinced that effective Biblical discipleship is all about relationships and happens within the context of relationships.
Our processes are designed to teach proper relational alignment in 3 key directions:
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UP: Discipleship requires healthy intentional relationship between Christ and His follower.
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IN: Discipleship requires healthy intentional relationships amongst fellow Christ-followers.
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OUT: Discipleship requires healthy intentional relationships between Christ-followers and the world.
MBC seeks to teach relational alignment in these 3 key directions through classroom instruction, encouragement of personal spiritual growth, small student discipleship groups, and ministry opportunities in our community.
Local to Global
The heart of Jesus is global. His commission to make disciples is global. The mission of every church, whether in small-town America or the big city, is global. And though the truth of the gospel looks the same the world over, wise shepherds and missionaries must bring this gospel and establish and shepherd the Church in very diverse settings. Because of our setting in Montana, we are uniquely fitted to specialize in town and country ministry. But because our calling is global we train all our students to have a global heart, and we train some specifically for cross-cultural ministry, whether to an American Indian tribe in Montana or a people group across the world. Since the majority of places and churches in the world are small, we believe our specialization brings an added strength to our cross-cultural training.
Billings sits on Interstate 90, and you can fly out of Billings to anywhere in the world. And students from all over the world are coming to Montana State University Billings. Combine our calling with our setting, and MBC students and graduates truly have a gateway to the world!
Churches in Billings
The following is by no means an exhaustive list of churches in Billings; however, it gives a good start to help you connect with churches where other MBC students have found a home.
MBC does not endorse any particular church. We encourage our students to be faithful students of God's Word and to connect with churches that preach and teach the Bible, hold fast to time-tested orthodox doctrine, lead their people to apply Biblical truth in life, and seek to reach the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Rocky Mountain Community Church
Presbyterian Church in America
Size: 100 - 500
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Montana Southern Baptist Convention
Size: Over 500
Christ's Covenant Reformed Church
Communion of Reformed Evangelicals
Size: Small
Holy Spirit Anglican Church
Anglican Church of North America
Size: Small
Connections Church
Western Conference of the Evangelical Church
