Moody Bible Institute

Date: Mar 18 2012
Major: Education (This Major's Salary over time)
MBI is evangelical. If you're not evangelical you will not be accepted nor will you want to attend. They have pretty strict rules (cannot drink, dance, go to a pub, etc.). Some tried to fight this, but in my view if you don't want to live by them go somewhere else. I didn't mind the rules when I attended, but I wouldn't want to live by them now.

Moody is different than other schools in that alot of extra things are required: weekly Christian ministry, chapel, a signed statement of belief, living rules are much stricter than other schools, etc.) They they do not take for granted you are doing these things, they actually check.

I found Moody to be Christian overload at time and I felt I had to confine myself to a certain strict belief system in classes. The theological debates and discussions in class concern mostly "in-house" debates (calvinism vs arminianism, premillennialism vs amillennialism, etc.). There is a lack of diversity in belief among professors so you will learn well mainly dispensationalism and calvinism.

If you are not absolutely convinced you are called to full time ministry I would not go to Mooody (they won't accept you anyways unless they are convinced you are). I'm not sure that Moody is always the right decision if one believes they are called.

I learned alot at Moody, made many good friends, and do not regret going. However, I have changed alot since I graduated 4 years ago.