Missiology Syllabus

Timothy Workshop

Course: Missiology

Time of Class:

8:30-8:45 – Prayer
8:45-9:50 - Workshop

Readings and Assignments

Week 1 – The Nature and Necessity of Missiology

Readings:

• Church Planting Manuel – Doing Neighborhood Research 4.1- 4.2 (Keller and Thompson)
• Planting Churches in a Postmodern Age – Redeveloping a Missional Mindset for North America (Stetzer)

Assignments: Using The Church Planting Manuel (4.2), break up into your Catalyst Groups and establish a plan and a time to do some initial group ethnographic research. Put your findings together in a “people profile.” Have this profile to be shared on Week 3.

Week 2 – The Nature and Necessity of Contextualiztion

Readings:

• Radical Reformission – going to seminary at the grocery store (Driscoll)
• The Forgotten Ways – missional incarnational impulse (Hirsh)
• Breaking the Missional Code – Contextualization: Making the Code Part of Your Strategy (Stetzer)

Assignment: People Profile continued.

Week 3 – The Challenge of Missions in North America

Readings:

• The Culturally Savvy Christian – Communicating in a Culture Like Ambassadors
• Planting Churches in a Postmodern Age – Emerging Postmodern Generations (Stetzer)

Assignments: People Profiles done.

Week 4 - Personal Missiology

Readings:

• Church Planting Manuel – Designing Linking Strategies 5.5 & 7.1 (Keller and Thompson)
• Becoming a Contagious Christian – (Chapters 7 & 8) (Hybels)

Discussion: What kind of linking strategies fits the people profile for North Fontana?