A Survey of Missiological Approaches and Church Planting Among Muslims
Master Level Course | Multiple Professors
The Messenger, The Message, and the Community by Dr. Roland Muller
Evangelical church planters face three challenges. First, they must be accepted by their target audience as viable messengers. Second, their message must be understandable to the worldview of their listeners. Third, the community they are forming must be a valid form of community for their audience. Roland Muller does a masterful job of bringing these three challenges together in one book addressing western, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist audiences. Roland Muller speaks as a practitioner-to-practitioners, illustrating his points with examples drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds. Discover new perspectives on how God wants to rejuvenate your ministry.
Dr. Roland Muller is a cross-cultural church planter with WEC International. Over the last thirty years his ministry has taken him into most Middle Eastern Countries and has allowed him to minister to a wide variety of people; from the palaces of wealthy oil sheiks to humble bedouin tents, from bustling cities to rural villages. He is the author of a dozen books including tools for Muslim Evangelism, Honor and Shame Unlocking the door, and The Message, the Messenger and the Community. He currently teaches cross-cultural church ministry skills in Canada and as a worldwide speaking and mentoring ministry.
Folk Islam in Africa - Dr. Tony Weedor
In this presentation, Prof. Tony Weedor explains the foundation of Islam in Africa including Folk Islam, Sufi Islam, and how pre-Islamic roots affected how Islam grew and changed in Africa. This will help the missionary better understand how to effectively evangelize Muslims with African heritage.
Anthony Weedor was born in the West African state of Liberia, a small country founded by freed slaves from America in July of 1847. He became a Christian in the early 80s through the ministries of Serving In Mission (SIM). He worked in Bomi Hills as an Evangelist and church planter. He graduated from the African Bible College with a B.A. in Biblical Studies, with an emphasis in Radio Broadcasting. In August of 88 he was appointed Director of Muslim Ministries for West Africa with SIM. In 1989, when the Liberian civil war broke out, he and his family walked for one year to La Cote d’Voire to escape. They lived in Cote d’Ivoire for three and half years in a refugee camp.
His family moved to the states in 1993 so he could study at the Denver Theological Seminary. He earned a Master of Divinity degree with emphasis in Philosophy. After graduation, his family moved to Ethiopia as missionaries with SIM. After spending more than four years ministering among pastors and teaching at the Evangelical Theological College. He then returned to Denver Seminary as an Adjunct Professor in the Philosophy department in 2006. He continued work with SIM as research director on Islam. In 2009, he began work on his Doctor of Philosophy.
Dr. Roland Muller is a cross-cultural church planter with WEC International. Over the last thirty years his ministry has taken him into most Middle Eastern Countries and has allowed him to minister to a wide variety of people; from the palaces of wealthy oil sheiks to humble bedouin tents, from bustling cities to rural villages. He is the author of a dozen books including tools for Muslim Evangelism, Honor and Shame Unlocking the door, and The Message, the Messenger and the Community. He currently teaches cross-cultural church ministry skills in Canada and as a worldwide speaking and mentoring ministry.
Insider Movements: A Critical Assessment
These lectures on Insider Movements were held at Liberty University to discuss this radical form of contextualization and its implications. Missionaries, missiologists, professors, and theologians gathered together for 3 days to present papers that assess IM from a biblical and missiological perspective. In these sessions you will hear from the 12 professors and their critiques of certain assumptions and tactics of the Insider Movement.
Course Syllabus
Required Reading: The Messenger, the Message, and the Community - Dr. Rolland Muller
Required Reading: Church Planting Movements - David Garrison
Required Reading: Discovering Church Planting: An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting
Required Reading: Chrislam: How Missionaries are Promoting an Islamized Gospel
Required Reading: Stubborn Perseverance
Required Reading: T4T - A Discipleship Re-Revolution
Required Reading: A Brief Guide to DMM Defining and Evaluating the Ideas
Review Essay: A Strange Sort of Orthodoxy: An Analysis of the T4T and CPM Approach to Missions
Required Reading: The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church by Roland Allen
Wise App Group Project
1. Introduction to Great Commission Fulfillment
2. Foundations of Missions Hermeutics
3. The Upper Room Discourse as Perdictive Missions
4. 1-2-3 Obey the Great Commission
5. The Post Pentecost Missions Pattern
6. Three Phases of Missionary Involvement
7. Three Locks and Two Keys for Successful Missions
8. Great Commission Essentials - Evangelism
9. Church Formation and Discipleship Part 1
10. Church Formation and Discipleship Part 2
11. Leadership Development through the Five-Fold Ministry
12. Strategy for a Leadership Developement Structure
17. The Acts Baptismal Pattern
Video Lecture - Five Styles of Evangelism
FREE PREVIEWRead Chapter 1 - Gaining an Acceptance
Chapter 1 Application Questions
Read Chapter 2 - The Toolbox
Chapter 2 - Application Questions
Discovery Lessons
Read Chapter 3 - The Making of an Evangelist
Chapter 3 Application Questions
Read Chapter 4 - Teacher Based Evangelism
Chapter 4 - Application Questions
Read Chapter 5 - The Art of Teaching
Chapter 5 - Application Questions
Required Reading: Church Planting Movements [Part 1&2] - Page 18-132
Video Lecture - Sharing with Muslims
Read Chapter 6 - Parables, Proverbs, & Prayer
Chapter 6 - Application Questions
Read Chapter 7 - Contextualization & Community
Chapter 7 Application Questions
Read Chapter 8 - Honor and Trust
Chapter 8 - Application Questions
Read Chapter 9 - Friendship Discipling
Chapter 9 - Application Questions
Read Chapter 10 - The Continuing Struggle
Chapter 10 - Application Question
Required Reading: Church Planting Movements [Part 3] - Page 134-183
Video Lecture - Worldviews of Fear and Guilt
Read Chapter 11 - Worldview
Chapter 11 - Application Questions
Read Chapter 12 - The Eden Effect
Chapter 12 - Application Questions
Read Chapter 13 - Guilt-Based Worldviews
Chapter 13 - Application Questions
Required Reading: Church Planting Movements [Part 3] - Page 183-208
VIdeo Lecture - Shame Based Worldviews
Read Chapter 14 - The Roman Connection
Chapter 14 - Application Questions
Read Chapter 15 - Fear-Based Worldviews
Chapter 15 - Application Questions
Chapter 16 - Shame-Based Worldviews
Chapter 16 - Application Questions
Take the World-View Assessment
Required Reading: Church Planting Movements - Page 211-241
A Pathway to a Master of Arts in Ministry with an Islamic Studies Concentration