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.
Students examine biblical examples of contextualized discipleship from both Old and New Testaments in order to draw out biblical principles that informs them how to create discipleship materials. The New Testament is replete with examples of how the apostles understood context and addressed different situations with a unique approach. Students examine these examples from Scripture.
There are well-established principles that foster the development of biblically holistic discipleship. Students explore these principles and understand the "how-to's" and the why in developing discipleship materials from case studies and application assignments.
The Apostle Paul needed to disciple the Corinthian believers differently from the Ephesian believers because their context was different. The purpose of this course is to help students understand how to exegete their context, and learn what type of material to develop and what approach best fits their context.
Each culture is shaped by the dominant worldview and therefore requires that the disciple maker understands how to speak to that worldview in ways that communicate truth about who Jesus is and what it means to obey all that He has commanded. This course introduces dominant worldviews and provides guidelines to the development of discipleship material relevant to those worldviews.
Students are guided into the developmental process of materials creation through coaching and peer discussion. Students have the opportunity to receive feedback on how to improve their materials as it relates to their particular context.
Students learn the value of seeing transformation take place in others by learning how to bring life-giving and transformational materials to those whom the Lord has given them to disciple. Students learn how to develop materials that help them become fruitful believers while seeing others become fruitful followers of Christ.
