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MI301 Community Analysis: Exegeting Culture for Missions is unavailable, but you can change that!

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.

If we could understand that in our world today, that people are hungry and groping and grasping, in a sense, with eyes closed—in a sense, Paul says, “I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to put it on the knob, because Jesus is the door. He’s the way. He’s the truth and the life.” That pattern that we see in Acts 17, the example of Paul, is a very, very useful and helpful thing for us to understand, because he’s looking initially, his spirit is stirred, he’s invited to speak into what he’s seen,