Increasing numbers of lay people are considering or already involved in career paths that lead them into areas of intentional cultural engagement including public policy, education, sociology, law, business, urban studies, church mission, and working with advocacy groups. Ephesiology’s Faith and Culture Certificate is a course of study that provides the foundations and flexibility to meet these lay people’s needs. The certificate equips students to trace the contours of contemporary culture, interpret its movements and messages, and engage its challenges from a biblically informed worldview.
Articulate culturally sensitive biblical and theological frameworks for addressing issues in contemporary culture.
Utilize analytical tools to define, study, interpret and engage contemporary culture.
Understand how issues pertaining to culture, faith, and ethics impact worldview.
Identify the challenges posed by contemporary culture to Christian belief and practice.
Apply skills of analysis and interpretation for relevant engagement of culture.
Appreciate the value of engaging culture from a biblically informed worldview.
Be culturally self-aware.
Ephesiology Master Classes is full of cutting-edge resources to meet the training needs of today’s missional worker. Combining academic rigor with practical insights and real time application, the Master Classes uses online technology in the virtual classroom to give relevant, biblical content for the missiological challenges of our ever changing, ever needy world.
Gary Fujino, Professor of Diaspora, Missional University
Ephesiology Master Classes give you the access to high level input from experts in their field. It is presented in an accessible format and an engaging style, equipping everyday leaders and every leader to be able to grow in particular areas, as well as generally in the character and competency of leadership and to become more Christ-like.
Rich Robinson, Director of CREO Ventures
Ephesiology Master Classes fills a gap that no group or no idea is filling. I love the idea of an academically rigorous and immensely practical digital equipping of leaders toward kingdom ministry. That’s a powerful combination.
Jeff Christopherson, Author, Co-Founder, and Missiologist, Send Institute
Here are all the learning experience to get you on the road to effectively engage your culture with your faith.
A survey of the modern religious movements throughout the world, including the major world religions. The student will be involved in directed research of the religions in selected areas of the world.
Learn how to engage the culture around us by showing how a biblically informed worldview gives answer to five big questions.
This learning experience explores theological, missiological, and ecclesiological bases for effective evangelism.
Missiological Theology introduces the student to pivotal Christian doctrines as a missiological framework within which to engage the working intellectual assumptions of contemporary culture. In addition to investigating several models for Christian
In this course, students will explore the shifting landscape of youth ministry as well as re-imagine ways to engage youth in the life of the church.
The Church in Times of Crisis focuses on how the early century church responded to plagues, famine, and persecution and what lessons the contemporary church can learn.
