Mobile Ed: MI301 Community Analysis: Exegeting Culture for Missions (5 hour course - audio)
Overview
Learn to diagnose needs in a local community and to discover some of the felt needs in a neighborhood. Begin to think biblically and missionally about ways that a church or group of churches could be involved in responding to the needs in that community. Understand what the Scripture says about applying it to your life in a manner that is relevant to your church and community.
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Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker
Unit 1: Understanding Your Community’s Culture
- Exegeting the Culture
- Beginning Community Analysis
- Ten Tips for Good Exegesis
- What Is Community Analysis?
- The Formula for Change
- Why Perform Community Analysis?
- Steps for Prayer Walking
- An Effective Church at Work
Unit 2: Preparing to Engage Your Community
- Who Performs Community Analysis?
- Becoming an Insider
- Preparing to Find a Community Insider
- Where Does Community Analysis Take Place?
- Beginning Analysis in a Specific Location
- An Example of Community Analysis
- When to Get Involved
- Discerning Your Preparedness: Part A
- Discerning Your Preparedness: Part B
- Getting Started with Community Analysis
- A Biblical Blueprint for Community Analysis
Unit 3: Precepts for Engaging in Ministry
- Practicing the Ministry
- Case Studies
- Network Well: Find the Stakeholders
- Listening to the Stories
- Survey Data
- The Life History Interview: Family and Living Situations
- The Life History Interview: Life Cycle and Friendships
- The Life History Interview: Beliefs and Motivation
Unit 4: How to Survey Your Community
- Basic Survey Practices
- Pilot Testing Your Survey
- Felt Needs and Attitudes toward Church
- Neighborhood Beliefs and Worldviews
- Sample Survey: College Campuses
- Ethnography Ministry Examples
Conclusion
- Concluding Thoughts
Product Details
- Title: MI301 Community Analysis: Exegeting Culture for Missions (audio)
- Instructor: John Fuder
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2016
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: audio
- Length: 5 hours
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Dr. John Fuder is the director of Justice and Compassion Ministries of re:source global, and the director of city engagement for Park Community Church in Chicago.
Dr. Fuder served in urban ministry for 15 years in California, and was the professor of urban studies at Moody Theological Seminary in Chicago for 17 years. He now trains and coaches the broader body of Christ to engage more deeply in contextualizing the gospel in their local communities.
Dr. Fuder holds a BRE from Prairie Bible College, an MA in religion from Pepperdine University, and a PhD from Biola University. He’s authored many publications, includingTraining Students for Urban Ministry, A Heart for the City: Effective Ministries to the Urban Community, and A Heart for the Community: New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry. Dr. Fuder and his wife, Nellie, have three children and a granddaughter, and live on Chicago’s north side.