What to expect

Movemental Ecclesiology focuses on the movemental nature of the church with attention to the importance of cultural exegesis and adaptive strategies for ecclesial structures and leadership. Special attention is given to the importance of missiology in catalyzing reproducing churches. You'll analyze and evaluate contemporary church planting models with a view toward a nascent articulation of a personal church planting philosophy developed in a community of learners. You will:

  • Consider the question of the biblical rationale for church planting.

  • Practice what it means to do theology in community in developing a definition of church.

  • Study the missional characteristics of New Testament church planting.

  • Examine important contextualization principles in developing culturally appropriate church structures.

  • Discuss and analyze contemporary church planting paradigms.

Course Outline

An introduction to the missional church planting principles of the New Testament and their applications in the 21st century.

    1. Welcome to this Ephesiology Master Class

    2. How to use the course player

    3. Welcome to Movemental Ecclesiology

      FREE PREVIEW

    4. Course Description and Objectives

    5. Zoom Registration

    6. Church Planting the New Testament Way!

    7. Before we begin...

    1. Instructions for Grad students

    2. Writing & Style Guides

    3. Learning Tasks

    4. Rubric for Asynchronous Discussion Participation

    5. Rubric for Book Review

    6. Writing Academic Book Reviews

    7. Required Textbooks and Articles

    8. Course Bibliography

    9. Resources for Research

    1. What to expect in this session

    2. Introducing Movemental Ecclesiology - with Alan Hirsch

    3. Is Church Planting the Most Effective Evangelistic Method?

    4. Discussion

    5. Beyond Sheep Shuffling

    6. The Biblical Mandate for Church Planting

    7. Discussion

    8. If Jesus Planted a Church ...

    9. Would Jesus Plant a Church?

    10. Discussion

    11. First Reflection Paper

    12. Excursus - Lessons from Calvin: Is it Time for Another Reformation?

    13. Characteristics of a Church Planter - Jeff Christopherson

    14. Live - Questions and Answers

    1. What to expect in this session

    2. New Testament Ecclesiology

    3. Marks of the Church

    4. Jesus' Marks for the Church

    5. Discussion

    6. Excursus - Connecting Ekklesia with Collaboration

    7. The Study of the Churches of Rome and Thessalonica

    8. Forms of the Early Church

    9. Second Reflection Paper

    1. What to expect in this session

    2. The Monkey and the Fish

    3. Adaptive and Captive Ecclesiology

    4. Cultural Influence on the Development of the Church

    5. Five Characteristics of a Church Rooted in the Community

    6. Church Indigeneity Matrix

    7. Discussion

    8. Live - Questions and Answers

    1. What to expect in this session

    2. A Missiologically Theocentric Church

    3. A Chaordic Collaborative

    4. Excursus - Relaunching Decentralized Churches

    5. Essential Elements of Church Planting Movements - David Garrison

    6. Free Book Download - Church Planting Movements

    7. Missiology in Tension

    8. The Church Planting Team - Todd Lafferty

    9. Team Essential: APEST

    10. APEST Personal Vocational Assessment

    11. The Non-Hierarchical Leadership of the New Testament Church

    12. The Dark-side of Hierarchical Leadership

    13. The Use of ποιμην in Early Christian History

    14. Movement Leadership: Embracing Chaord in the Missio Ecclesiae

    15. Excursus - Mere Evangelism

    16. Church Planting's Silver Bullet(s) - Donald Patrick Harris

    17. Free Book Download - Learn from Paul

    18. More Evangelism and Discipleship Resources

    19. Live - Questions and Answers

About this course

  • $200.00
  • 89 lessons
  • 15 hours of video contented

Meet Dr. Michael T. Cooper

Join Michael and a whole host of church planters like Alan Hirsch, Jeff Christopherson, David Garrison, Bob Engel, Sean Cronin, and many others as we are challenged to see a reformation in church planting.

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.

Are you ready to change your world?

It's not simply about what you know in your head, but what you believe in heart and do with your hands so that you are motivated and equipped to lead movements.

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