Major Themes of the Course: 

• Theology of café church 
• The connection between church coffee shop and community, 
• How to run a café church. 
• Evangelism distance, understanding culture & the Engel Scale. 
• Mapping your Neighbourhood. 
• Spiritual warfare 
• Taking the temperature of your community. 
• Church planting timeline. 
• Characteristics of a church planter and the church planting team 
• Church planting models 
  
  Course Learning Objectives: 

• Students will be able to define what a cafe church is, the transferable principles that can be used to start a new church and why this is important in a Western context. 
• This course will enable students to develop their own practice of analysing communities and their needs 
• Students will be able to describe the main traits of a church planter 
• Students will be able to recognize the impact of spiritual warfare on the church planting task and be aware of different approaches towards a solution. 
• Students will understand what it means to be ‘missional’ and how this differs from ‘attractional’ mission 
• Students will be able to appreciate a biblical foundation for mission, including understanding terms like ‘missio Dei’ its significance for all church planting endeavours. 
• Students will be able to distinguish between different church planting and evangelism models and evaluate them. 

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