Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition - Mentor's Guide

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Introduction to the Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition

Welcome to the Cornerstone Curriculum , your new opportunity to be equipped for effective ministry in the Church!

The Challenge: Great Need, No Time, Few Funds The harsh reality faced by anyone equipping pastors and lay ministers serving in at-risk communities is that of scarcity. Money and time are too scarce and too short for these valiant leaders to engage in a long, structured study who serve God in poor communities. They do extraordinary work often while holding down a full-time job and growing ministry. Many thousands of urban Christian workers who would benefit from our premier, comprehensive, seminary-level curricula like the Capstone Curriculum don’t have either the availability or the funds to complete it. (The average time for bi-vocational students to finish Capstone’s sixteen modules is three to four years.) Meeting the Challenge: The Cornerstone Curriculum To meet this great need, we have designed this unique curriculum, the Cornerstone Curriculum . Selected from specific, targeted lessons taken from Capstone , and adding Dr. Alvin Sanders’s Redemptive Poverty Work , we created this course of study for those who will never have the time or funds to complete our more extensive Capstone set. The time to complete Cornerstone’s three parts is the equivalent of only three Capstone modules. We created this resource to help these students access helpful resources without sacrificing quality or their ministry opportunities. Cornerstone will dramatically cut both the time and expense associated with typical Bible school or seminary studies or even the Capstone Curriculum , with no loss to either our fidelity to biblical truth or practical ministry training. Be Equipped to Plant, Pastor, and Serve the Church! Cornerstone’s lesson materials combine the Redemptive Poverty Work course with material distilled directly from Capstone’s modules, drawing out its essential truths from its four department areas (Biblical Studies, Theology and Ethics, Christian Ministry, and Urban Mission). We put

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