MI-341 Mission and Ministry

Mission begins with God. Learn how a young church can stand on its own: led, supported, multiplied and taught from within, without lasting dependence on outside help.

Following The Goal of Mission and the Indigenous Church, this course asks what the goal of mission is and how a missionary helps a church grow to maturity. It looks at the problem of dependency, at leaders trained in the field, at authority and money, at churches that plant churches, and at the day the missionary leaves.

What you will study

• God the sender: the mission of God and the Great Commission
• The indigenous church: self-governing, self-supporting, self-propagating and self-theologizing
• Dependency and outside money: what helps a church and what weakens it
• Training leaders in the field, close to their ministry
• Authority, decisions and discipline in a young church
• Churches that plant churches, and what holds them back
• Local theology: weighing a custom by Scripture, as in Acts 15
• Finishing well: when a missionary's work is done

Course materials

• The Goal of Mission and the Indigenous Church, a WWES textbook
• The Bible