Skills acquired
- Ability to Link the principles of the memory and understanding.
- Ability to recognize how God designed you to learn & use your mind effectively.
- Ability identify in others the way God has designed them to learn.
Created to learn
Learning is a gift of God, developed through training opportunities and worked out through timeless repetitions. Each one of you come from a different learning background. Do you feel it is easy to grasp new information, new thoughts and to get deeply into the mystery of the Gospel of God? This course touches the special privilege of learning about God and how He has revealed Himself in the Holy Scriptures. God teaches us even about how to know Himself and His Saviour Jesus Christ. For learning about HIM and learning from Christ, God the creator set up principles of the memory and the way of understanding as He created the human mind.
We want to understand ourselves to use our mind more effectively. God has given us the instrument of logic into our brains as the means to understand truthfully. The Holy Scriptures are using logic to communicate truth to us.
We learn God`s communication by an introduction into the logic of the letter to the Romans. The course closes with looking at you, the learner. You will be provided with some practical helps for an individually adapted way of remembering and understanding. This course prepares you and supports you in your further studies. As more you understand how you are learning, the more you start to get into the science of teaching yourself.
Teacher: Thomas Gerlach
# of Sessions: 6
Course Duration: 2.8 hours
Skills acquired:
- Ability to recognize the necessity & motivation for the need to start christian communities.
- Ability to create the key charachteristics of your community.
- Ability to assess your situation and the areas needing to be developed.
Foundations
This course will provide to you the tools needed to begin your journey on planting churches that have a multiplication mindset.
The main tools that you will gain are:
- The Definition of church planting
- 10 Reasons for planting churches
- The DNA values of a healthy church plant
- Characteristics of a church planter
- Foundational issues faced when planting a church
- Knowing your vision
- Putting together a philosophy of ministry.
The Goal of this Course is to provide you with the foundational understanding of the role of church planting in God's expanding kingdom, of the character and spiritual gift-mix of a church planter, and of the basic make-up of a church plant (the DNA), so that you can formulate and clearly articulate the purpose and parameters of the church you wish to plant.
After taking this course it is my prayer that you be equipped and encouraged to take steps of faith to begin your journey with the Holy Spirit. May you grow in faith as you walk with Him in not only learning theoretically, but also practically.
Teacher: Stephen Beck PhD
# of Sessions: 20
Course Duration: 9.6 hours
Skills acquired:
- Ability to create communications aliigned with your vision (ie. a website, buisness cards, and letters).
- Ability to create surveys to be used to identify the needs of the community around you.
- Ability to create a philosophy of ministry and a list for creating your start team.
Classical Church Planting
In this course Dr. Beck works through the classical or traditional way most denominations in the western hemisphere plant churches but adds some key insights and practices he has learned from his years of association with leading church planters and such church planting networks like City To City, City Mentoring Program, and now mosaiXmultiply. Dr. Beck takes the student through the phases of church planting and the various aspects of each of the phases to build an easy-to-follow, practical, step-by-step approach. Many church planting training programs give aspiring church planters helpful principles to go by. Dr. Beck uses a so-called "church planting globe" to not only give you a clear overview of all the steps to be taken, but very detailed instructions and advice for each step, all the way to reaching the first of two goals of church planting: installing your first elders (the second goal is multiplying your church plant into another church plant, but that is CP7). In doing so, he is careful to consider that every church plant has its own unique context and that no one way of doing things fits everywhere. The church planting student will want to take all the principles, steps and detailed advice in this course and apply them to his own context. (Note: how to contextualize is the major focus of CP4). You will be equipped with the proper tools needed to continue your journey on planting a classical church that has a multilocational mindset.
Teacher: Stephen Beck PhD
# of Sessions: 15
Course Duration: 4.8 hours
Skills acquired:
- Ability to facilitate a Discovery Group.
- Ability to lead discussions that direct people to faith in Christ.
- Ability to not to become argumentative but to remain authentic in your passion of the Gospel to lead your group to be engaged in learning about Jesus.
Discovery Group Basics
This course will provide you the tools needed in starting a discovery group that has a mindset of multiplication. A discovery group is made mostly of non-believing individuals but led by a few dedicated believers in Jesus. In many parts of the world and amongst many different cultures, churches have been started in this organic way. Meaning there was no major raising of funds, securing of a building or hiring of an ordained pastor before the actual church community was started. Instead, a disciple making group was created.
In this course, two highly experienced and knowledgeable church trainers, Stephen Beck and Theo Visser, team up to show you how this is done. Theo Visser takes you through the various steps you take to multiply your Discovery Group into a second one, then into several disciple making groups, and ultimately into a worshipping congregation whose focus is on the reaching the community around it. He shares how discipleship and leadership training happens in these small groups.
In this organic approach, rapid multiplication of disciples, small groups and congregations is the vision Dr. Beck's contribution in this course. He will introduce you to the concept of a Discovery Group for non-Christians. His training manual gives you all the information and creative ideas you need to start a Discovery Group. In addition, he will give you helpful advice out of his own experience how to lead a multi-cultural Discovery Group. Once completed, you will be ready to start a multi-cultural Discovery Group.
Teachers: Theo Visser & Stephen Beck PhD
# of Sessions: 15
Course Duration: 4.8 hours
Skills acquired:
- Ability to practice contextualization in your given environment.
- Ability to Biblically explain why Jesus is the best example of contextualization.
- Ability to identify and use different methods and models when starting your Christian Community.
Contextualization & Methods
This course about contextualization and models for starting a multi-cultural community centred around Jesus is one of the most overlooked subjects in the area of congregation multiplication. The course begins with the definition of contextualization and finds in the Bible the guidelines for practicing it in the work of the Kingdom of God. You will learn the theory of contextualizing and you will be given practical tools. You will understand how the Gospel is designed to be contextualized and how you can adapt it to your own situation.
Not everything that Dr. Stephen Beck is teaching in this course is going to fit perfectly to your situation. However, listen and absorb the principles, then contextualize the teaching to your area, situation, culture, and language. Seek advice and guidance from God and His Word. Turn to locals in your community in whom you trust or expand your network as described in the teaching to strengthen your confidence in progressing your work. If God sent you, He would lead you!
Teacher: Stephen Beck PhD
# of Sessions: 13
Course Duration: 13 hours
Skills acquired:
- Ability to communicate how God used those people from different cultures throughout the Bible to acheive His plan.
- Apply those Biblical examples in your context.
- Communicate how all are called to expand God's Kingdom.
Theology of a stranger
This course will provide you with the practical understanding on the importance of why multi-cultural communities are critical in the expansion of God’s Kingdom. Dr. Stephen will share the Biblical models and stories of how God has used the diversity of culture to move His redemptive grace to every nation. Thru these Biblical examples, you will begin to realize that God has used the foreigner amongst us throughout History to draw us to Him. You will see how from Abraham, to Joseph, to Jesus, and ultimately to each one of us, that He wants to continue to welcome those of different backgrounds to shine His light to the nations.
In the end, you will be prepared to overcome your fear of those who are different and will be equipped to draw people from different ethnical, cultural and linguistic backgrounds together in a group setting. Thru the experience of Dr. Stephen, he will share about the common challenges which you will face and give you practical solutions to overcome them.
You will see the glory of heaven on earth now thru the diversity of culture!
Teacher: Stephen Beck PhD
# of Sessions: 5
Course Duration: 2 hours
Skills acquired:
- Ability to use the Biblical narative as your guide in starting a multi-cultural Christ centered community.
- Ability to identify those who can be trained to become diciple makers.
- Ability to multiply leaders in your group.
Preparation for Multiplication
This course begins with the first phase of preparation, when starting a multi-cultural community centred around Jesus. There are many things that need to be taken in consideration. Where do you begin? What do you do?
Hans Euser looks at Luke chapter 10 and extracts 5 practical principles for beginning the journey of creating a multi-cultural community. As he takes us through disciple making teachings, we learn from the great commission the will of God for the growth of His body.
Since we don’t want and can not to do everything ourselves, we need to build teams, delegate tasks, and train disciples in assuming responsibilities. Hans shares form his experience, and also examines the teachings of Paul, to lay out a list of practical multiplication principles.
Teacher: Hans Euser
# of Sessions: 5
Course Duration: 1.5 hours
Skills acquired:
- Ability to clearly and simply communicate the theological understanding of the Bible's foundation and history.
Basic Bible Doctrines Introduction
Jesus is praying in John’s Gospel chapter 17 and says that eternal life means knowing God, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He sent. In this course we will learn to know God through learning about Him. This content will transform us to become better ambassadors for Christ and better servants of the living God. Dr. Gene Haas takes you through a survey of all the systematic theologies through a series of 30 min. videos. He approaches this material from the perspective of Reformed Theology but welcomes individuals from different theological traditions.
The goals are 1) To educate you in Christian ministry especially in planting new congregations and in pastoral ministry. And 2) To make theology accessible to all of you. You will discover what relevance has theology to you in your personal walk with Jesus and in your ministry regardless of whether it is public or private.
Teacher: Gene Haas PhD
# of Sessions: 10
Course Duration: 5.2 hours