Nurturing Entrepreneurial Mindsets

Nurturing Entrepreneurial Mindsets

This course is part of Rediscovering the Heart of Methodism Specialization

Instructors: Jung Choi

What you'll learn

Explore how attentiveness to society’s needs is key to the Wesleyan idea of building the kingdom of God on earth.
Learn from the successes and failures that have marked the history of Methodism’s entrepreneurial ministries.
Interpret vocational significance of Methodism’s entrepreneurial spirit; explain how God continues to call you to new ways to minister to the world.
Explain how God continues to call you and your community into new, innovative ways to minister to the world.

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There are 4 modules in this course

Welcome to Nurturing Entrepreneurial Mindsets! In this course, we’ll see how Methodism’s history of entrepreneurism has fueled innovative ministries. We will consider how gifts of wisdom, virtue, and vision came from Wesley’s ministerial failure in Savannah, Georgia. Lastly, we will discuss how that spirit of innovation can help us faithfully meet our current moment. As we reflect on how we can nurture entrepreneurial mindsets wherever we are called to serve, we pray your discussions around these questions may be beneficial for your ministry.

If you are a pastor or ministry professional in need of Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits for your professional development, CEU credits are available for this course. Upon successful completion of this course, you can provide your Coursera certificate and the course description to your employer for recognition of earning 0.5 CEUs. Contact divinityonline@duke.edu with any questions regarding CEUs for this course. Each of the 5 courses in the Rediscovering the Heart of Methodism specialization is worth 0.5 CEUs, for a total of 2.5 CEUs for completing all of the courses. This course is part of the Rediscovering the Heart of Methodism series. This is one of five 4-week online courses designed to help engaged laypeople and clergy (including local pastors in licensing schools) develop core capacities for innovative leadership within the Wesleyan tradition. Through this series, we hope you will experience a deeper grounding in the distinctive elements of Methodism at its best, and a renewed capacity for hopeful, imaginative participation in the mission of God.

What does it mean for the Church to be entrepreneurial? In this week’s lesson, you’ll explore how the language of social entrepreneurship describes the ways Methodists have dared to pursue new ways of bearing witness to the kingdom of God. Whether or not you consider yourself an entrepreneurial person, you can come alongside others in your church to find new ways to participate in God’s ongoing work of making all things new.

What's included

1 video10 readings2 assignments2 discussion prompts

1 videoTotal 9 minutes

Nurturing Entrepreneurial and Multiplier Mindsets9 minutesPreview module

10 readingsTotal 62 minutes

General Course Information10 minutes
About Duke Divinity+10 minutes
Course Entry Survey5 minutes
About the Group Discussion Guide5 minutes
Group Discussion Guide2 minutes
Coursera Online Discussion Guidelines5 minutes
This Week's Presenter5 minutes
Key Terms5 minutes
The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship10 minutes
The United Methodist Church and IU Health5 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 20 minutes

Quiz to Open the Group Discussion Guide5 minutes
Week 1 Graded Quiz15 minutes

2 discussion promptsTotal 20 minutes

Introduce Yourself10 minutes
Week 1 Discussion Post10 minutes

Methodism’s history of entrepreneurship extends all the way to the earliest days of the movement. This week, you’ll learn about three examples of entrepreneurial ministries in early Methodism. You’ll also consider how their pattern of seeing needs around them and following God’s call to meet those needs might inform and inspire your church’s approach to ministry.

What's included

1 video3 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

What happens when our entrepreneurial efforts fail? Beginning with John Wesley’s failed efforts in colonial Savannah, Georgia, this week’s lesson explores the wisdom God offers us through failure and the resources the Methodist tradition provides to help us absorb that wisdom. As schools of mission, our failures can equip us with the character, humility, boldness, and vision we need to faithfully pursue what God has called us to do.

What's included

1 video4 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

1 videoTotal 10 minutes

Savannah: Stories of Failure as Schools of Mission 10 minutesPreview module

4 readingsTotal 30 minutes

This Week's Presenter5 minutes
Key Terms5 minutes
A Wesleyan Understanding of Grace10 minutes
Do United Methodists Believe "Once Saved, Always Saved?" 10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 15 minutes

Week 3 Graded Quiz15 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 10 minutes

Week 3 Discussion Post10 minutes

Innovating new forms of ministry to meet the demands of a changing world is hardly a new challenge for Methodism. In this final lesson, you’ll be reminded of the unchanging mission and core affirmations that ground our common Methodist identity, and you’ll see how Methodists are imagining new patterns of ministry that faithfully express this identity in a wide range of ways. What new expressions of the heart of Methodism might God be calling you and your church to pursue?