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Course
Holy Innovation: Meeting Challenges with Creativity
~17 Hours
This course, Holy Innovation, will introduce you to a theological understanding and practice of innovation in the context of ministry, both within and outside the local church. Learn to answer our Creator’s call to be creative, innovative, and redemptive in your vocation!
Samuel Kim
About This Course
As an artist, art appreciator, or ministry leader, you may wonder how to use your creativity, love of beauty, and artistic skills to respond to today’s needs. This course, Holy Innovation, will introduce you to a theological understanding and practice of innovation in the context of ministry, both within and outside the local church. Join Reverend Samuel Kim as you engage biblically with the frameworks of human-centered design, entrepreneurship, and agile management to answer our Creator’s call to be creative, innovative, and redemptive in our vocation as you love God and neighbors. This course will help faith communities respond meaningfully to an ever-changing world—whether through creating something new, renewing, transforming, or all of the above!
Learning Outcomes
- Define the frameworks for being agile and adaptive to complex problems
- Identify your contemporary context and evaluate its needs and possible solutions
- Practice an iterative process that will evaluate your experimentation and learning as you implement your solution
- Apply the human-centered design process to a complex problem
This is part of the Brehm Center's Certificate in Theology and the Arts.
Created in partnership with the Brehm Center and FULLER Equip.
- Arts & Worship
- Church & Ministry
- Leadership
- Lead Pastor
Getting Started
Introduction
1. What Is Holy Innovation?
Theological Groundwork for an Agile and Adaptive Mindset
2. Theology of Failure
3. Agility and Adaptivity
4. Agile Leadership & Design Thinking
5. Listening to a World in Need
Designing a Creative Solution
6. Listen Well (Curiosity Without Judgment)
7. Forming Insights (Discerning the Spirit)
8. Creating Ideas from Insights (How Can We Make It Real?)
9. Prototyping (Build to Learn)
10. Iterating Forward (Keep Trying, Keep Learning)
Conclusion
11. Conclusion
12. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Samuel Kim
Executive Associate Minister of Innovation and Design
Reverend Samuel Kim serves churches and ministries to innovate, transform, and renew. As Executive Associate Minister of Innovation and Design, he serves as the director of the Pneuma Initiative, which helps empower the Evergreen Association of American Baptist churches. He loves to dream and strategize with others to help individuals and communities fulfill their missional calling. He graduated from Regent College with a Master in Christian Studies (Arts and Christianity) and Wesley Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity. He has also received his certificate in Foundations for Design Thinking through IDEO U. Sam teaches Ministry Innovation as an adjunct professor at the Berkeley School of Theology and is pursuing his Doctor of Ministry there. He has ministered in Korean, Japanese, British, and Chinese churches for the past two decades before his current role. He has a passion for connecting theology to the concerns of contemporary culture. He also loves exploring the connections between spirituality and art in various forms. Outside of ministry, he records and produces music in multiple genres and works as a freelance soundtrack composer (samueljosephkim.com).
