What to expect:

Christian history is a story of innovation shaped in community. From Paul’s dynamic engagement with diverse cultures to the early church’s collaborative formulation of creeds, faithful disruptors have always worked together to ensure that Jesus remains intelligible in new contexts. But innovation was never a solitary endeavor—it was a shared pursuit of aligning the church more fully with God’s mission.

Today, we stand at another crossroads. The structures, strategies, and assumptions that have long shaped Western missions are increasingly out of step with a rapidly changing world. We cannot navigate this moment alone. Like those who came before us, we must come together—not simply to seek new methods, but to discern what faithfulness looks like in our time.

This masterclass is an invitation into a conversation. Rooted in historical insights, theological reflection, and the challenges of today, we will learn from one another as we explore how the church can once again become a community of innovative disruption—disrupting cultural captivity, institutional inertia, and missiological drift to rediscover our shared participation in God’s mission. Join the conversation. Let’s learn, reflect, and innovate—together.

  • Theological and missiological foundations for Christology and their implications for mission and church.

  • Missiological theology: understanding and engaging with diverse cultural, social, and religious contexts.

  • Adaptive ecclesial identity and mission: reimagining church practices and structures for relevance and impact.

  • Innovative solutions for addressing contemporary challenges and opportunities in Christian witness.

  • Embodiment of Jesus Christ in His five-fold ministry as apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd, and teacher.

An Agenda for Missions

Innovative Disruption equips participants with a mission-focused agenda to embody Christ through creative and adaptive approaches that connect theology, culture, and practical action for transformative engagement in a rapidly changing world.

    1. Welcome to this Ephesiology Master Class

    2. How to use the course player

    3. Forum Overview

    4. Before we begin...

    5. Introducing Innovative Disruption

    1. What to expect in this session

    2. Our Boundaries

    3. Critical Reflections on the North American Church

    4. The Rise of Christianities

    5. Is there a Christian worldview?

    6. Decentralized Churches - Alan Hirsch

    7. Innovative Solutions

    1. Reorient to Jesus

    2. Something to Consider

    3. Jesus and the Storm

    4. Reorient to Jesus, Part 2

    5. Discussion

    6. Innovative Solutions

    1. What to expect in this session

    2. Download the Slide Deck

    3. Christology - Missiology - Ecclesiology

    4. Discussion

    5. Innovation Solutions

    1. What to expect in this session

    2. Download the Slide Deck

    3. Missiological Theology, Part 1

    4. Missiological Theology, Part 2

    5. Missiological Theology, Part 3

    6. Discussion

    7. Innovative Solutions

    1. What to expect in this session

    2. Download the Slide Deck

    3. Ecclesiology Introduction

    4. More Ecclesiology

    5. Discussion

    6. Innovative Solutions

About this course

  • Free
  • 48 lessons
  • Free chapter downloads
  • Asynchronous discussions

Meet your facilitators

Join Andrew and Michael in a facilitated conversation about innovative disruption

Professor of Missiological Theology Michael T. Cooper

Dr. Cooper earned a PhD in Intercultural Studies with a focus on religious movements and a minor in theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He currently serves as a missiologist for a missions agency where he focuses on missiological research and equipping missionaries for effective cultural engagement. He has thirty years of missions experience, including ten years as a pioneer church planter in Romania after the fall of communism and has equipped church planters and leaders in Africa, Europe, North America, South America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. He is a guest faculty at Torch Trinity Graduate University, adjunct faculty at Mission India Theological Seminary, Asia Graduate School of Theology Nepal, and Ebenezer Bible College in Katmandu, and affiliate faculty at Kairos University. He has written and contributed to more than 30 books and academic articles and has presented conference lectures at the London School of Economics, University of Bordeaux, Loyola University, Baylor University, and many others. His recent book, Ephesiology: A Study of the Ephesian Movement is a best seller at William Carey Publishing.

Andrew Johnson

Andrew is a proud husband, father and pastor in the Bayou City, Houston, TX. Previously, he’s ministered in Chicago, Flagstaff and Tempe in a variety of church contexts. Andrew as a BA in Christian Ministry from Trinity International University. After graduating Phoenix Seminary, he, his wife, and three kids moved to Houston join the growing ministry at Neartown Church, a church geared towards starting and supporting other strong local churches through church planting. He is currently a Doctor of Ministry student at Kairos University. When not at work, he’s an avid disc golfing, ultimate playing, Spider-Man following/collecting fellow. Go Pacers.

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