Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition - Mentor's Guide

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The Student Application and Implications section challenges the student to wrestle with the implications of the lesson for their own life and ministry. It is quite easy for students to forget that the point of our work is not merely to consider ideas, but to connect the content of the lesson to their actual Sitz im Leben (German for “situation in life”). Each student must be challenged to ponder the personal ramifications of the truths contained in the lesson for his or her own life, and explore the ideas as they might relate to their own ministry. Your role, therefore, is to enable your students to think through the central truths with an eye toward their own situations. You may wish to design some questions or use those provided below as water to “prime the pump” of their interests, so to speak. What is significant here is not the questions written below, but for you, in conversation with your students, to settle on a cadre of issues, concerns, questions, and ideas that flow directly from their experience, and relate to their lives and ministries. Do not hesitate to spend the majority of time on some question that arose from the video, or some special concern that is especially relevant in their ministry context right now. The goal of this section is for you to enable them to think critically and theologically in regards to their own lives and ministry contexts. Again, the questions below are provided as guides and primers, and ought not to be seen as absolute necessities. Pick and choose among them, or come up with your own. The key is relevance now, to their context and to their questions. The overall success of the students in a cohort learning situation is for them to learn as they peruse the material individually, as well as when they gather with their fellow students in dialogue, discussion, and prayer. Both individual and group study are significant. Emphasize the need for both individual and group preparation for an insightful and effective learning session. You will want to make sure that you remind and challenge your students to set aside quality time to fulfill their assignment for next class lesson,

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