Designing disciplemaking materials to suit a proposed ministry context. Students have knowledge of a particular cultural context in which to design materials that would most effectively assist in developing devoted followers of Christ. Each student is expected to prepare and present a disciplemaking handbook to be used within a specific context of ministry.
When a missional leader seeks to make disciples, a specific plan that reaches a particular ministry target must be utilized. In many situations there is no existing disciplemaking plan that may be accessed, which would present the necessity of producing a plan. This course gives students the opportunity to plan, design, produce, and present disciplemaking materials that fit the needs presented in their ministry context.
The course offers a practical approach for missional leaders to design a specific handbook for making disciples among people within a particular demographic.
The Bible is the foundational materials-development manual for all discipleship. By examining the instances in both Old and New Testaments, students are biblically informed in the necessary elements for designing disciple-making materials in a global context.
The outcome of missional discipleship is to see missional disciples empowered and released into the harvest fields. This course explores the missional impact of materials developed in a global context.
Material development should be culturally informed and contextually appropriate. This course examines how to study culture and its impact on material development.
A missional disciple knows that they must be a cross-cultural missionary (contextual) people and adopt a missionary stance in relation to their community. Students gain practical insight as to what is required to determine the intercultural impact of the materials they develop.
This course provides, through assignments and reflections, the development and measurement of missional discipleship materials. Students gain measured practice and feedback on the materials they create.
A missional disciple helps people discover and develop their spiritual gifts and relies on gifted people for ministry instead of talented people. This course exposes students to the need for Spirit-guided material development.
