Church in the Wild
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*Course fee includes a free hardcover copy of Painting with Ashes.*
Church in the Wild: Evangelism, Discipleship, and Church Planting for the 21st Century
Get equipped with everything you need to start your own “church in the wild”. This online masterclass course includes a full step by step guide to church planting for the 2020s, with real world lessons learned and best practices from a pioneer on the missional frontier, Dr. Michael Adam Beck.
“Churches in the Wild” are fresh expressions of church, or forms of church for our changing culture, established primarily for the benefit of people who are not yet members of any church. They come into being through principles of listening, service, incarnational mission and making disciples.
This masterclass will empower both leaders and teams, the “priesthood of all believers,” to be unleashed in new ways to join the Holy Spirit’s work of evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. During the course you will learn practical skills and competencies everyday churches are using to become a movement that reaches new people, from one of the most experienced practitioners in the world.
Post-Christendom has brought new challenges. Forms of church that seek only to attract people to existing buildings and church campus no longer connecting with many people. As Dr. Beck teaches, now we need a new “blended ecology” that includes both existing and new forms or “fresh expressions” of church to thrive on a new missional frontier.
This masterclass is led by Rev. Dr. Michael Adam Beck, author of Painting with Ashes. Michael is a rare breed of practitioner and scholar. He is actively involved in cultivating fresh expressions of church from his local congregation in Ocala, Florida, while also teaching as a seminary professor and Director of Fresh Expressions for the United Methodist Church.
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Session 1: The Wild: Assessing the New Landscape
In the opening session, examine cultural shifts, the phenomenon of decline, and “faith unbundled.”
Session 2: New People, New Places, New Ways
This session offers an introductory explanation of Fresh Expressions, the history of the movement, and communities that are “safe, accessible, and real.”
Session 3: The Blended Ecology
This session will invite us to reimagine our contexts as communal ecosystems and provide the “why” for a blended ecology.
Session 4: Imagination is Our Superpower
In session four of the Church in the Wild video course, learn an explanation of “imaginative gridlock” play, creativity, and imaginative prayer as a way to access God’s creativity.
Session 5: Cultivating Churches in the Wild
This session explores a framework for “how” to cultivate missional communities from the local church setting.
Session 6: Shepherd Malpractice
This session explores renegotiating the social contract, rethinking local church leadership, and restructuring church for a blended ecology.
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Description
*Course fee includes a free hardcover copy of Painting with Ashes.*
Church in the Wild: Evangelism, Discipleship, and Church Planting for the 21st Century
Get equipped with everything you need to start your own “church in the wild”. This online masterclass course includes a full step by step guide to church planting for the 2020s, with real world lessons learned and best practices from a pioneer on the missional frontier, Dr. Michael Adam Beck.
“Churches in the Wild” are fresh expressions of church, or forms of church for our changing culture, established primarily for the benefit of people who are not yet members of any church. They come into being through principles of listening, service, incarnational mission and making disciples.
This masterclass will empower both leaders and teams, the “priesthood of all believers,” to be unleashed in new ways to join the Holy Spirit’s work of evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. During the course you will learn practical skills and competencies everyday churches are using to become a movement that reaches new people, from one of the most experienced practitioners in the world.
Post-Christendom has brought new challenges. Forms of church that seek only to attract people to existing buildings and church campus no longer connecting with many people. As Dr. Beck teaches, now we need a new “blended ecology” that includes both existing and new forms or “fresh expressions” of church to thrive on a new missional frontier.
This masterclass is led by Rev. Dr. Michael Adam Beck, author of Painting with Ashes. Michael is a rare breed of practitioner and scholar. He is actively involved in cultivating fresh expressions of church from his local congregation in Ocala, Florida, while also teaching as a seminary professor and Director of Fresh Expressions for the United Methodist Church.