me 5000 foundations of christian missions syllabus … · · 2013-07-15learning objectives...

ME5000–FoundationsofChristianMissions|TEDSMadison|Fall2013|LeeWanak 1

ME 5000 – Foundations of Christian Missions (2 cr.) TEDS Madison Extension Fall Semester 2013 Sept. 20-21; Oct. 11-12; Nov. 15-16 Fri. 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM, Sat. 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Lee Wanak, PhD Phone: 608-807-2275 Email: [email protected]

COURSESYLLABUS

COURSEDESCRIPTIONAsurveyofthetheology,history,culture,politics,andmethodsoftheChristianmission,withspecialemphasisonrecentdevelopments,crucialissues,andfuturetrends,endingwithacarefulstudyofmissionsinthelocalchurch.MACSHistoricalandGlobalStudies/M.Div.Core.LEARNINGOBJECTIVES

Studentswillbeabletoarticulateabiblicalbasisformissions Studentswillbecomefamiliarwithbroadoutlineofthehistoryofthemissionaryoutreach

ofthechurch Developanunderstandingofthepresentstateoftheworldwidechurch Gainpracticalinsightsontheroleofthepastorandthelocalchurchinworldmission Beabletofindresourcesformissionsontheweb Studentswillunderstandtheprocessofanindividualbecomingandthenservingasa

missionary(missionarylifeandservice) Becomeacquaintedwithsomeofthekeyissuesinmissionstoday. BechallengedandequippedtobecomepersonallyinvolvedwiththeGospeltoyourown

Jerusalem,Judea,Samariaandtheendsoftheearth. Beginalifelongpersonalcommitmenttoworldwidemissionsthroughlearningabout

missions,praying,going,sending,welcoming,andmobilizing.COURSETEXTSMoreau,A.Scott,GaryR.Corwin,andGaryB.McGee.IntroducingWorldMissions:ABiblical,

Historical,andPracticalSurvey.GrandRapids:BakerAcademic,2004.PerspectivesontheWorldChristianMovement:AReader4thedition(seeReadingLog)

COURSEREQUIREMENTS1.ReadingLog‐10%.Tobeturnedinattheendofthecourse.2.CourseAttendanceandParticipation‐10%.Additionaldailyassignmentsmayalsobegiven.


3.WritingAssignments‐50%.TenShortReflectionPapers.Eachpaperistobedouble‐spacedand350to400words.FivepapersareonreadingsfromMoreauandaretodemonstratethatyouhavereadtheassignmentandhavereflectedonthereadingsbyintegratingreadingswiththeoreticalideasandpersonalexperience.ChooseonechapterfromeachofthefivePartsinMoreau(forexample,fromPart1,youcanchoosefromchapters2,3,4,or5).Identifythekeypointsinthechapterandprovideyourownthoughtsandinsightsintothetopics.Papersaredueasscheduledbelow.Theremainingfivepapertopicsarechosenfromthelistbelow.Thepurposeofthesefivepapersishelpyoubridgecourseworktoyourministrycontext.

o ExaminationofthemissiologicalimplicationsoftheLausanneCovenanto DiscussionofamovieonmissionssuchasEndofaSpearorCandleintheDarko Developmentofasermonseriesonmissionso Youviewsonanarticleinthereadingsortopicdiscussedinclasso Analysisofashorttermmissiontripo Analysisofalocalchurchpolicymanualo Acomparisonofmissionorganizationso Anoutlineofamissionstrategyo Aplantodevelopalocalchurchvisionformissionsinvolvementamongaparticularagegroup

4.FinalExamProject‐30%.Enterintocross‐culturalministryexperiencesuchasevangelism,worship,teachingorsocialconcern,connectedwithachurch,parachurchorganization.Observe,participate,askquestions,makenotes,andthinkcritically.Beinsightful.Youwillbegradedonhowyouusewhatyou’velearned.Startearly.It’simpossibletodothiskindofexamatthelastminute.Writeacouplepagesoneachofthefollowingthreeparts:

1) Discusstheissuesinvolvedinthecontext2) Addressrelevantmissiologicalprinciplesatplay3) Drawconclusionsonhowtheseprinciplesshouldshapeattitudes,strategy,and

practicesforministryinrelationtothespecificcontext.GradingScale

A 93‐100A‐ 90‐92.9B+87‐89.9B 83‐86.9B‐ 80‐82.9C+ 77‐79.9

C‐ 73‐76.9C‐ 70‐72.9D+67‐69.9D 63‐66.9D‐ 60‐62.9F 00‐59.9

COURSESCHEDULESession Topic Due

Week11 Courseintroduction,Encountering ReadingsforWeek1(see


MissionintheScriptures.PurposeofMissions.EvangelismandSocialConcern.

ReadingLog)ReflectiononMoreauCh.1‐5.Areflectionofyourchoice.

2 MissionandtheKingdom.Mission,Missions,MissionalandMissioDei.E‐ScaleandP‐Scale.WhatisMissionWork?Web‐basedresources.

3 LocalChurchIssues:Roleofthesendingchurch,Short‐termMissions,TheMissionsCommitteeandMissionsandMoney,Prayer,EducatingforMission,Welcoming,LocalUrbanMission,ModalityandSodality.

Week24 EncounteringMissioninHistory ReadingsforWeek2(see

ReadingLog)ReflectionsonMoreauCh.6‐8andMoreauCh.9‐11.Tworeflectionsofyourchoice.

5 EncounteringMissionsasaCandidate6 Theroleofthemissionagency.

Relationshipswithnationalchurches.ChurchPlantingMovements.TheC‐Spectrum.IndividualandGroupConversion.Cross‐culturalCommunication.

Week37 EncounteringMissionasaSentOne

andaSenderReadingsforWeek3(seelog)ReflectionsMoreauCh.12‐15andMoreauCh.16‐19.Tworeflectionsofyourchoice.

8 MissionsEncounteringtheContemporaryWorld

9 Culture,WorldviewandMissionStrategies:MissionStrategy,BusinessasMission,UnreachedPeoples,UrbanMission,IncarnationandContextualization.Dependency.The“God”word.Insidermovements

COURSEFORMATClasssessionsareacrucialpartofthecourse.Classroomtimewillbedividedbetweenlectureanddiscussion.Becauseofthediscussionnatureofthecourseitisimportanttocompleteassignedreadingsbeforeclass.Sincewearemeetingononlysixdaysfullattendanceisexpected.Ifyoumustmissaclassforanunexpectedemergencyyoucaninterviewapersonwhointheclassandturninyourwrittensummaryoftheclassyoumissed.Youwillreceiveapartialreductionofyourgrade.


Thereadingsareessentialastheyprovideasystematicoverviewofthecontentthatmustbemastered.Thereadingswilloftenalsoformthebasisofclassdiscussion.Thelectureswillnotexamineeachimportantarea,butrathertheywillprovidedeeperreflectiononselectedmattersofsignificance. RELATEDLITERATURE:Andrews,Dave.BuildingaBetterWorld:BuildingCommunitiesofHopeinTroubled

Times.NewYork:Crossroads,1998.Beavens,StevenB.ModelsofContextualTheology.Manila,Philippines:Logos

Publications,2002.Bolt,Peter,(et.al.).TheGospeltotheNations:PerspectivesonPaul’sMission.

DownersGrove,IL:InterVarsityPress,2000.Bosch,DavidJ.TransformingMission:ParadigmShiftsinTheologyandMission.

Maryknoll,NY:OrbisBooks,1992.Bradshaw,B.BridgingtheGap:Evangelism,DevelopmentandShalom.Monrovia,

CA:MARC,1993.Christian,Jayakumar.GodoftheEmpty‐Handed:Poverty,PowerandtheKingdom

ofGod.Monrovia,CA:MARC,1999.Corrie,John.DictionaryofMissionTheology:EvangelicalFoundations.Downers

Grove,Illinois:InterVarsityPress,2007Dyrness,WilliamA.LettheEarthRejoice:ABiblicalTheologyofHolisticMission.

Westchester,IL:Crossway,1983.Elmer,Duane.Cross‐CulturalConnections:SteppingoutandFittinginAroundthe

World.DownersGrove:InterVarsityPress,2002.Engel,JamesF.andWilliamDyrness.(2000).ChangingtheMindofMissions.

DownersGrove,IL:InterVarsityPress.Garrison,David.ChurchPlantingMovements:HowGodisredeemingaLostWorld.

Midlothian,Virginia:WIGTakeResources,2004.Glenny,EdwardW.andSmallman,WilliamH.MissionsintheNewMillennium.

GrandRapids,MI:KregelPublications,2000.Gnanakan,Ken.(1993).KingdomConcerns:ATheologyofMissionToday.

Liecester:InterVarsityPress.Guthrie,Stan.MissionsintheThirdMillennium:21KeyTrendsforthe21stCentury

RevisedandExpandedEdition.Waynesboro,GA:Paternoster,2005.Hesselgrave,DavidRommen,David.Contextualization:Meanings,Methodsand

Models.GrandRapids,Michigan:BakerBookHouse,1989.Hesselgrave,David.PlantingChurchesCross‐Culturally.GrandRapids,MI:Baker

BookHouse,2000.Hiebert,PaulandEloiseHiebertMenses.IncarnationalMinistry:PlantingChurches

inBand,Tribal,Peasant,andUrbanSocieties.GrandRapids:BakerBookHouse,1995.

Hiebert,PaulG.AnthropologicalReflectionsonMissiologicalIssues.GrandRapids:BakerBookHouse,1994.

Hiebert,PaulG.AnthropologicalInsightsforMissionaries.GrandRapids:BakerBookHouse,1985.


Jenkins,Philip.TheNextChristendom:TheComingofGlobalChristianity.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2002.

Kohls,L.RobertandKnight,JohnM.DevelopingInterculturalAwareness:ACross‐culturalTrainingHandbook.Yarmouth,Maine:InterculturalPress,1994.

Kostenberger,AndreasJ.andPeterT.O’Brien.SalvationtotheEndsoftheEarth:ABiblicalTheologyofMission.DownersGrove:InterVarsityPress,2001.

Lingenfelter,Judith.TeachingCross‐Culturally:AnIncarnationalModelforLearningandTeaching.GrandRapids:BakerBookHouse,2003

Lingenfelter,SherwoodG.andMayers,Marvin.MinisteringCross‐Culturally:AnIncarnationalModelforPersonalRelationships.Pasadena,CA:WilliamCareyLibrary,1986.

Lingenfelter,SherwoodG.TransformingCulture:AChallengeforChristianMissions.GrandRapids,Michigan:BakerBookHouse,1998.

Mandryk,Jason.OperationWorld:SeventhEdition.ColoradoSprings:BiblicaPublishing,2010.

Myers,BryantL.TheNewContextofWorldMission.Monrovia,CA:MARC,1996.Neill,Stephen.AHistoryofChristianMissions.Middlesex,England:Penguin,1964.Parshall,Phil.Muslimevangelism:ContemporaryApproachestoContextualization.

Waynesboro,Georgia:GabrielPublishing,2003.Paulson,Hank.GlobalPartnerships,NetworkingandNationals:TheThirdParadigm

inMissions.ColoradoSprings,Colorado:NewHopePublishing,2002.Piper,John.LettheNationsBeGlad!TheSupremacyofGodinMissions.Grand

Rapids:BakerBookHouse,1993.Rundle,Steve,andSteffen,Tom.GreatCommissionCompanies:TheEmergingRole

ofBusinessinMissions.DownersGrove,IL:InterVarsityPress,2003.Samuel,VinayandChrisSugden.MissionasTransformation:ATheologyofthe

WholeGospel.Irvine,CA:Regnum,1999.Steffen,TomA.(2000).BusinessasUsualintheMissionsEnterprise?Pasadena,CA:

WilliamCareyLibrary.Stetzer,Ed.PlantingNewChurchesinaPostmodernAge.NashvilleTennessee:

BroadmanandHoleman,2003.Stott,JohnR.W.ChristianMissionintheModernWorld.DownersGrove,IL:

InterVarsityPress,1975.Studerman,Robert.CallousedHands,CourageousSouls:HolisticSpiritualityof

DevelopmentandMission.Monrovia,CA:MARC,1999.Taylor,WilliamD.GlobalMissiologyforthe21stCentury.GrandRapids:Baker

BookHouse,2000.Taylor,WilliamD.KingdomPartnershipsforSynergyinMissions.Pasadena,CA:

WilliamCareyLibrary,1994.Terry,JohnMark,EbbieSmithandJusticeAnderson.Missiology:AnIntroductionto

theFoundations,History,andStrategiesofWorldMissions.Nashville:BroadmanandHolman,1998.

Tippett,Alan.IntroductiontoMissiology.Pasadena:WilliamCareyLibrary,1987.Tucker,RuthA.FromJerusalemtoIrianJaya.GrandRapids:Zondervan,1986.VanRheenen,Gailyn.Missions:BiblicalFoundations&ContemporaryStrategies.

GrandRapids:Zondervan,1996.


Winter,RalphD.andStephenC.Hawthorne,eds.PerspectivesontheWorldChristianMovement,4thed.Pasadena:WilliamCareyLibrary,2009.

Yamamori,Tetsunao.PenetratingMissions’FinalFrontier.DownersGrove,IL:InterVarsityPress,1993.

Yamamori,TetsunaoandEldred,KennethA.OnKingdomBusiness.TransformingMissionsThroughEntrepreneurialStrategies.Wheaton,Illinois:CrosswayBooks,2003

ESTIMATEDWORKLOADCourseassignmenttimeis2800minutesfor2unitsReading 1440Writing 1000FinalExamProject 360 2800


ArticlesfromthePerspectivesontheWorldChristianMovement:AReader4thedition

(SubmitreportduringWeek3)

Articles Page# #ofPages

ReadforWeek1

IntroducingWorldMissionsbyScott Moreau,Ch.1‐5 p.11 79TheLivingGodisaMissionaryGodbyJohnR.W.Stott p.3 7TheStoryofHisGlorybyStevenC.Hawthorne p.49 14LettheNationsBeGlad!byJohnPiper p.64 6TheLausanneCovenant p.764 6

Initialcompletedreadings:_______________ 112

ReadforWeek2

IntroducingWorldMissionsbyScottMoreau,Ch.6‐11 p.91 112TheTwoStructuresofGod’sRedemptiveMissionbyRalphD.Winter p.244 10TheNewMacedonia:ARevolutionaryNewErainMissionBeginsbyRalphD.Winter

p.347 15

TheStateoftheGospelbyJasonMandryk p.361 8FinishingtheTask:TheUnreachedPeoplesChallengebyRalphD.WinterandBruceA.Koch

p.531 16

TheChallengeoftheCitiesbyRogerS.Greenway p.559 6


ReadforWeek3

IntroducingWorldMissionsbyScottMoreau,Ch.12‐19 p.203 111CultureWorldviewandContextualizationbyCharlesH.Kraft p.400 7FindingaPlaceandServingMovementsWithinSocietybyPaulG.Hiebert

p.451 9

CulturalImplicationsofanIndigenousChurchbyWilliamA.Smalley p.497 6TheWillowbankReportbyTheLausanneCommitteeforWorldEvangelization

p.506 22

OntheCuttingEdgeofMissionStrategybyC.PeterWagner p.574 9TheUrbanPoor:WhoAreWe?byVivGrigg p.610 5ChurchPlantingMovementsbyDavidGarrison p.646 3DependencybyGlennSchwartz p.657 3TheC‐SpectrumbyJohnJ.Travis p.664 2MustAllMuslimsLeave“Islam”toFollowJesus?byJohnJ.Travis p.668 5Reconsecration:ToaWartime,NotaPeacetimeLifestylebyRalphD.Winter

p.722 3

WelcomingtheWorldatYourDoorbyDouglasShawandBobNorsworthy

p.750 2

MissioDeior“MissioMe”?Short‐TermMissionsandGod’sGlobalPurposebyRogerPeterson

p.752 5

RestoringtheRoleofBusinessinMissionbySteveRundle p.757 8


me 5000 foundations of christian missions syllabus … · · 2013-07-15learning objectives...

Documents