Are you passionate about learning how the New Testament Church grew?

And how you might catalyze those lessons in your ministry?

We are too! The study of the Ephesian movement focuses on empowering people to use their gifts (2 Tim 1:3-6), inspiring them to join in hardship (2 Tim 1:8-14), entrusting them to teach faithful people to carry on the mission (2 Tim 2:1-7), and reminding them to preach the word in season and out of season (2 Tim 3:16-4:2). These are mission critical characteristics of spiritual multiplication and lead to innovating ways that you and your team can engage contemporary culture with the story of God.

What to expect

In the Study of the Ephesian Movement, you will go on an adventure of discovering fundamental principles for building a framework of a movement. This in-depth study of the most significant church in the New Testament will equip you with the tools to understanding the people you are engaging and join with God in His work of uniting all things in Christ. You will take away the following strategic applications:

  • What it will take to effectively launch a movement in your city

  • Learn what Paul taught to ensure the movement will not stagnate

  • Become the type of leader that empowers, inspires, entrusts, and reminds others to stay on mission

What's inside the course:

    1. Welcome to this Ephesiology Master Class

    2. How to use this course

    3. Description and Objectives

    4. Get Your Copy of the Book

    5. Before we begin...

    1. Instructions

    2. Formating Guidelines

    3. Learning Tasks

    4. Rubric for Asynchronous Discussion Participation

    5. Writing a Seminary Paper

    6. Course Bibliography

    7. Resources for Academic Research

    1. What to expect in this session

    2. Current Climate of Global Christianity

    3. Why Religions Succeed

    4. Lifecycle of a Movement

    5. Movements and Institutions

    6. Types of Movements

    7. Reflection

    1. What to expect in this session

    2. Defining the Legacy Church

    3. Characteristics of the Legacy Church

    4. Diagnostic Questions for the Legacy Church

    5. Reflections

    1. What to expect in this session

    2. Key Features of the New Testament Movement

    3. Preliminary Reflections on an Anatomy of a Movement

    4. Mature Disciples

    5. New Testament Leaders

    6. Healthy Church

    7. Differentiating a NT Movement from CPM and DMM

    8. Missiology in Tension

    9. Reflection

    1. What to expect in this session

    2. The Basics: What is the Gospel

    3. Excurus: Hauerwas on Evangelical Salvation Models

    4. Paul's Gospel Message in Acts

    5. Connecting stories

    6. A Theological Framework for Movements

    7. Theology of a Movement: Introducing Ephesians

    8. Theology and Our Identity

    9. Missiological Theism

    10. Reflections

About this course

  • $200.00
  • 69 lessons
  • 12 hours of video

The benefits of this course include:

  • More than twelve hours of on-demand video

  • Articles and blogs written by your instructor

  • Accessible 24/7 from your phone, tablet, or computer

  • A roadmap to help your church get into a growth posture

  • Personal reflection questions to help you digest and apply the content

  • Discussion forums to do theology in a community with others taking the class

  • Monthly live Zoom discussions with your instructor

  • Free book offer from William Carey Publishing

  • Certificate of completion for continuing education credit

Meet Dr. Michael Cooper

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.

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