Ephesiology
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Discovering God’s Passion for Movements

The city of Ephesus was the site of the most significant church-planting movement in the early church, with 40 percent of the New Testament texts relating to it. What made that city the epicenter of the movement? And how can we replicate sustained movements in a world that feels so different?

This is not another methodology or attempt to re-contextualize evangelicalism. Rather, it is a journey from the launch of the church in Ephesus as it became a movement grounded in God’s mission and led by those who multiplied generations of disciples. Michael T. Cooper focuses on Paul and John as missiological theologians who successfully connected Jesus’s teaching with the cultural context and narrative of the people in Ephesus. Their ability to relate the God of all creation to a people who sought him in vain resulted in “the Way” transforming the religious, intellectual, economic, and social fabrics of the Ephesian society.

Ephesiology offers a comprehensive view of the redemptive movement of the Holy Spirit in this city and compels us to ask the question: how can we effectively connect Christ to our culture? Through this study of a movement, discover how the Holy Spirit still changes lives, cities, and the world.

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Date de parution 28 février 2020
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EAN13 9781645082798
Langue English
Poids de l'ouvrage 7 Mo

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I am happy to endorse Ephesiology: A Study of the Ephesian Movement , by Dr. Michael Cooper. Church planting movements continue to grow and thrive around the world. As these movements grow, Cooper s work will provide a necessary theological and missiological foundation to ensure that these dynamic movements remain healthy into the future.
D R . D UDLEY B ROWN International Training Institute Christ Community Church, Greeley, Colorado
Having worked as a missionary, an outreach pastor in the United States, and now heading an initiative for the Evangelical Free Church of America for the Unreached People Groups, I feel that the topic of this book is very timely. I am presently working alongside several CP movements in Africa and the leaders of these movements are beginning to struggle with the tension between movement and institution. The American church watches and marvels at these movements but remains asleep as to their own condition. This book has the potential to challenge and clarify the changes needed in America and offer warning and help to the global movements!
R EV . R ICK B URKE Associate Director of Global Equipping, Unreached People Initiative Reach Global, EFCA
Who better to dig into the model of Ephesus than a missionary church planter, turned missiologist, turned mission leader? Michael Cooper brings helpful breadth and depth to this work. His extensive experience and ongoing exposure to the church and the need around the world give him a unique platform. After decades of pragmatic, programmatic models, the church needs an exegetically-driven path forward.
R EV . K ERRY D OYAL District Superintendent, Evangelical Free Church of America
Ephesiology is a uniquely grounded and helpful framework that will bless any person needing direction for church planting the New Testament way. Drawing from biblical, theological, missiological, and practical experience and disciplines, Dr. Michael Cooper has created a tone that faithfully exposits the scriptural principles that guided one of the greatest churches of the New Testament era. As a seasoned church planter himself, complemented by solid academic grounding, Cooper s book is a must read for anyone who takes seriously and prayerfully the concept of church planting movements.
D R . G ARY F UJINO Professor of Diaspora Studies, Missional University Global Diaspora Network
I have personally been enlightened by Michael s insights in regards to what it takes to start a movement like the early church that spanned much of the known world with the Gospel. Though I have earned multiple theological degrees, this is the first time I have heard the insights Michael has given in this book. It has motivated me to the point that I am having him train my staff and board of elders and deacons-hoping to light the fire for evangelism in their hearts as well.
R EV . S TEVE G IBSON Lead Pastor, Wellspring Church, Hudsonville, Michigan
Despite the fact that the modern missiological use of the phrase church planting movements is quite recent (in terms of over 2,000 years of church history), the phenomenon of the rapid multiplication of house churches was clearly birthed and evolved almost two millennia ago in Ephesus and other early Apostolic church plants. I love the concept of a book that examines the multiplication and growth of the early church in Ephesus while also integrating that study with an examination of relevant passages in the Epistles, Acts, and Revelation. Michael intertwines illustrations of contemporary church planting movements with the study of the biblical theology of the church and early church multiplication movements. The Book of Ephesians clear focus on the believer s intimacy with God, the centrality of the gospel of grace, the Holy Spirit empowerment for service and requisite holistic integrity of the life and family of a follower of Jesus make it the perfect New Testament book-and early church movement-to study in order to understand the explosion of the gospel that began in Ephesus almost 2,000 years ago! I recommend this strategic book to others in order to motivate the global church to sprint towards the finish line of the Great Commission!
D R . K URT N ELSON President and CEO, East West Ministries International Author of Finishing Well: Encouraging Pastors to Persevere under Persecution
Dr. Cooper s proposal is creative, and the book will make a good contribution to existing literature on the theology of church planting movements. Among its merits is the fact that the book combines research in New Testament with current issues and realities in church planting movements worldwide, drawing upon Dr. Cooper s extensive experience in this area. I think the book will be welcomed by missiologists and church planters and it should find its place as a text in Bible colleges and seminaries.
D R . H AROLD A. N ETLAND Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Intercultural Studies, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Author of Christianity and Religious Diversity
Masterfully handling the book of Ephesians and using its content as a definitive guide, Michael T. Cooper lays a theologically strong foundation that is both corrective and directive to disciple making movements. The principles he gleans from the book of Ephesians and related texts help to ensure the ongoing multiplication and maturation of a movement. Because these are supra-cultural principles, they are applicable anywhere in the world.
M ARVIN J. N EWELL Staff Missiologist, Missio Nexus
A century ago, Roland Allen demonstrated how far nineteenth century missionary practice had departed from the example of the Apostle Paul. His work is still in print, used by many and needed to be used by more. Michael Cooper is accomplishing the same task of calling the church back to the Biblical foundation of missions and church planting. In Allen s day, missions was married to the spirit of progress and colonialism. In our day, it is married to the vagaries of contemporary culture and the gimmicks of modernity. What is needed is exactly what Dr. Cooper is proposing, namely a reexamination of the Biblical methodology of Paul. It is applicable to the church planting around the world just as Allen s work, written for the mission field, has been used by churches and para-church ministries in North America.
D R . J AMES S TAMOOLIS Missiologist and Educational Consultant Author of Eastern Orthodox Mission Theology Today
Wow-GREAT resource! Far too often we forget the basics in church planting and church multiplication movements. Ephesiology gives a solid biblical understanding to the original church planting movement, and provides a healthy DNA understanding for local congregations, denominations, and ministries to grow effectively. Dr. Cooper has made a significant contribution to the Kingdom here. I m adding this book to our recommended resource tool kit for GACX (Global Alliance for Church Multiplication) team.
N ATE V ANDER S TELT Executive Vice President, Global Alliance for Church Multiplication
What will it take? This is one of the questions that keep me awake at night, and I believe Michael too. He and I share an irresistible curiosity and zeal for a gospel-movement in our communities, country, continent, and world. With stories of such movements exploding in the hardest to reach places around the globe, the church in North America (along with other places where the church has plateaued or is in decline) would do well to learn from what has now become known as church planting movements (CPMs). I have benefited greatly from Michael s experience and insights detailed in this book, both theologically and practically. I highly recommend this book to every pastor, church planter, Christian leader, and academic who needs permission to embrace a radical paradigm that originated in first-century Ephesus and answers the question, What will it take?
M ATTHEW T ILL Lead Pastor, Restoration Church, Lake Zurich, Illinois Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies, Trinity International University
I am really excited about Michael s new book, Ephesiology . Using the Ephesian church as a model for understanding church planting movements better is brilliant. I have generally separated out the various passages and books that relate to the Ephesians and, at times, may have missed some important emphases and principles that all of us who are engaged in church planting need to consider in our strategies.
D R . J OE L. W ALL Professor of Systematic Theology, Grace School of Theology Author of Going of Gold
I am convinced that Jesus has designed his church for world transformation-that world impact is baked into the very nature and design of the church. Michael Cooper knows this and has focused his scholarship on trying to figure out the inherently movemental nature of the church. Ephesiology is precisely the kind of reflection on the missional potential of the New Testament church that is needed in our time. It deserves to be widely read.
Alan Hirsch Author of The Forgotten Ways and The Permanent Revolution. Founder of Forge Missional Training Network, 100 Movements, and The 5Q Collective. Network, 100 Movements, and The 5Q Collective.

Ephesiology: A Study of the Ephesian Movement
2020 by Michael T. Cooper
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