Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition - Mentor's Guide

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own lives. This section in every lesson is the opportunity for us to deliberately relate the truths to our own lives and walk with the Lord . In helping your students think through their own situations, you might want to design some questions to help them apply the truths to their own lives. Feel free to use all or some of the questions provided below as a means to get the conversation going, to jump start the exploration into possible applications of the text. 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 viewing of the lecture, 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 regard 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 Case Studies are designed to force the students to engage in creative application of the truth to either a real or imagined situation, one which requires them to take seriously the relationship of the truth to real experience. The key is not that they discover the one “right answer” or “correct solution” to the situation, but learn how to carefully gather all of the facts, think through them carefully, and make application based on the what they have learned. These case studies, even the ones designed from the imagination, run closely with the kinds of issues and situations that urban leaders are likely to encounter, so encourage them to think as leaders as they engage in the discussions. This is not pretension , but practice , and, as the adage wrongly suggests, practice does not make perfect. Rather, right practice makes more perfect .

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