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Cornerstone | Unit IV: Christian Ministry
2026-08-04 18:00 - 2026-09-29 19:30, 2025-10-14 18:00 - 2025-12-09 19:30 (America/Chicago)
The Christian Ministry unit equips students to skillfully tend the flock of God, the Church.
Jesus of Nazareth has been exalted as head over his new people, the Church.
We focus on the critical role of the Church in personal and corporate discipleship.
Indeed, there is no discipleship or salvation apart from God’s saving action in the Church.
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Cornerstone | Unit III: Theology and Ethics
2026-05-19 18:00 - 2026-06-09 19:30
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Cornerstone | Unit II: Biblical Studies
2026-03-10 18:00 - 2026-05-05 19:30
The Biblical Studies unit equips students to minister the Word of God with accuracy and effectiveness.
The servant of Christ must master the biblical content, submit to its injunctions, and teach its truths.
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Oakland, CA | Urban Church Planting School
2026-02-27 - 2026-02-28
World Impact’s Urban Church Planting provides comprehensive training, experienced coaching, and a supportive community to help urban church plant teams navigate the unique challenges and opportunities of planting a church in a diverse urban community.

Program Cost: $100 per team (2-5 people)
This covers the registration fee, meals, and resources for your church plant team. Teams are responsible for travel and lodging costs.

Whether you are planting a new church, preparing to re-plant (restart, revitalize, or relaunch) an existing church, seeking a process for transitioning to next generation of pastoral leadership, or seeking to catalyze a church planting movement, there’s a place for you and your team.

Learn More: https://www.worldimpact.org/plant-a-church/

Cornerstone | Unit I: Redemptive Poverty Work
2026-02-10 18:00 - 2026-03-03 19:30
The goal of this course is to help you do the type of work among the poor that honors God and helps you fulfill your desire to make the world a better place.
Our first lesson, A Brief Theological Reflection, provides a simple, practical theology for poverty work. We’ll talk about three themes that undergird why we do what we do.
Lesson two, Toxic Poverty Work, outlines the type of poverty work that naturally arises from our sinful nature. We’ll talk about what our work will produce if we do not practice self-awareness.
Lesson three, Redemptive Poverty Work, defines the goal of our activity. We’ll explore the three types of poverty work available to us and how our response to the work that Christ has done on the cross should aspire us towards redemption of lives and neighborhoods.
Lesson four, Rhythms of Life and Poverty Work, lays out the spirituality of The Great Tradition of the Church. World Impact invites you to implement these practices in your life to act as a countermeasure to toxic poverty work, as well as a catalyst to grow in your faith.
Course Objectives
After completing Redemptive Poverty Work, you will have the tools to:

Articulate a brief biblical theology for poverty work.
Analyze poverty work for toxic practices and attitudes.
Reflect critically on poverty work to align it with God’s redemptive work in Christ.
Enact a commitment to root poverty work in effective spiritual practices that represent the Great Tradition of the Church.

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Capstone | Module 3: Theology of the Church
2026-01-13 18:00 - 2026-03-10 19:30
About Module 3: Theology of the Church
The Church of God in Jesus Christ is one of the most refreshing and important themes of all the Scriptures. Jesus of Nazareth, through his death, burial, and resurrection, has been exalted as head over his new people, those called to represent him in the earth and bear witness of his already/not yet Kingdom.
To understand the Church’s role in God’s kingdom program is critical to every facet of personal and corporate discipleship; there is no discipleship or salvation apart from God’s saving action in the Church. Grasping what God is doing in and through his people empowers God’s leader to represent him with wisdom and honor.
The Church is foreshadowed in God’s exalted purpose to bring glory to himself by saving a new humanity through his covenant with Abraham. Through its worship, witness, and good works, the Church through the ages displays the unity, holiness, universality, and apostolicity of its communion. In the Church, God displays his kingdom life and shares his offer of grace to the world.
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Capstone | Module 12: Focus on Reproduction
2026-01-08 18:00 - 2026-03-05 19:30
About Module 12: Focus on Reproduction
As 21st century disciples of Jesus in the cities of America, we desire to be fruitful in the work of God–ministering to the lost, and advancing the Kingdom of Christ (John 15.8,16). God has commanded that we bear abundant lasting fruit in our generation, taking the Good News of Christ’s love to the very ends of the earth. The mandate is valid till the return of Christ; we are called to evangelize the lost, equip the redeemed, and empower new generations to become salt and light in the communities where they live and work.
In this module we explore the vision of evangelism, discipleship, and church planting in the city. Here we affirm the lordship of Jesus Christ, who as risen Lord and God’s anointed Messiah, has been exalted to the position of head over all things to the Church and as Lord of the harvest. As Lord, he calls us to penetrate our oikos (household networks) in urban, cross-cultural evangelism. Through testifying the Gospel in our webs of common kinship relationships, friendships, and associations we can spread win others in urban America. This course also considers the idea of equipping new believers through the idea of follow-up, or incorporating new disciples into the Church. Arguing that the Church is God’s means of bringing new Christians to maturity, it discusses follow-up and discipleship as the way to ground Christians in the faith. Finally, we will explore the importance of church planting, and the critical role of training leaders to empower them for multiplication. This module concludes with a solid blueprint of a godly urban church which can be God’s agent of change and freedom in its community, in Jesus’ name.
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Capstone | Module 1: Conversion and Calling
2026-01-08 18:00 - 2026-03-05 19:30
About Module 1: Conversion & Calling
Without question, the most dynamic spiritual force in the Church is the Spirit-inspired and illumined Word of God, the Holy Scriptures. As disciples of Jesus Christ, we affirm our deep belief in the creative, convicting, converting, and calling power of the Word of God. To understand the wonderful blessing of conversion and calling, we will need to critically evaluate the place of the Word of God in the Church.
This module highlights the dynamic power of the Word of God to both convert the lost, and secure the called into the full will of God. We begin with a discussion of how the Bible understands itself to be in fact the very Word of God, inspired by the “breath of God,” the Holy Spirit. Through his ministry through the Holy Scriptures, we understand that the Word of God plays a pivotal role in the regeneration of the lost person; through the Word, the Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment.
The Word of God coverts us; it is a word that brings new life, and that is synonymous with the Gospel of Jesus. It is the Word which causes us to be “born again,” to experience the washing of regeneration, and renewal of the Holy Spirit, producing in those who believe very concrete signs of God’s renewing power. Finally, we will see how this Word calls us out of darkness into new life in Christ.
We will explore the concept of (metanoia), that is, repentance toward God, and to faith (pistis). The Word of God produces faith in Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior who saves, delivers, and rescues the believer from the penalty, power, and presence of sin.
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Capstone | Module 2: The Kingdom of God
2026-01-06 18:00 - 2026-03-03 19:30
About Module 2: The Kingdom of God
Of all the subjects preached and taught by Jesus of Nazareth, none are as significant and controversial as the subject of the Kingdom of God. Both conservative and liberal scholars agree that Jesus’ favorite subject, the one he preached and taught upon most often, is the Kingdom of God. It was his salvation message, master plan, and heart theology. Sadly, the modern Church seems to pay little attention to what Jesus considered to be most important in his prophetic and Messianic ministry. Our hope is that your heart will be gripped by the kingdom story – the King and his Kingdom – and see its importance in the life of personal discipleship and ministry.
In four lessons, this module provides a bird’s eye view of the Reign of God, from a discussion how God’s absolute sovereignty and lordship of God was defied by the devil and the first human pair to the inauguration of God’s reign in Jesus Christ and his incarnation. Now that our Lord Jesus has died, risen, and ascended into heaven, the Kingdom of God is being proclaimed throughout the world by his Church. God’s reign will soon be consummated at the Second Coming of Jesus, where death, disease, and all evil will be put down, all heaven and earth will be renewed, and God will become All-in-all.
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Capstone | Module 7: Foundations of Christian Leadership
2026-01-05 18:00 - 2026-03-02 19:30
About Module 7: Foundations of Christian Leadership
The leaders of the Church of God are his precious gifts to his people throughout the ages. The evidence that Jesus loves his people dearly is that he has granted unto them apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers to equip his people to represent the Kingdom of God in this fallen and soon-to end world (Eph. 4.9-16). This module highlights the various roles and offices associated with this high and important task in the Kingdom of God.
This course explores the roles and offices of four of the critical positions of leadership in the Church. The Christian Leader as Deacon probes the foundations of Christian leadership as it relates to the offices and functions of the diaconate, or ministry of deacons, as a servant, a steward, and an assistant. The Christian Leader as Elder traces the notion from its OT root in the tribal system synagogue, the Sanhedrin, and to the NT Church. The Christian Leader as Pastor outlines the biblical context of the idea of the pastorate, tracing historically the development of the idea of undershepherd of the flock. Finally, the Christian Leader as Bishop defines the dynamic concept of bishop as overseer, tracing its probable context from the council of elders in Jewish rulership to its development in the history of the Church.
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Capstone | Module 9: The OT Witness to Christ and His Kingdom
2025-10-16 18:00 - 2025-12-11 19:30
NOTE: No Class on Thanksgiving: 11/27
About Module 9: The OT Witness to Christ and His Kingdom
The Spirit-breathed Scriptures are anchored on the witness of Jesus of Nazareth. He and he alone provides unity, continuity, and coherence to both the Old and New Testaments, and no one can claim a holistic or accurate view of the Bible without him being central in all phases of exegesis. He is the Bible’s theme (John 5.39-40).
In this module we trace some of the significant markers of the OT’s witness to Messiah, and see how those markers provide us with a strong handle on the meaning of the entirety of Scripture.
In the lessons included in this volume we examine the relationship of the Old Testament to the New Testament through the idea of progressive revelation, as well as consider how the events, institutions, and persons of the OT represent an analogy where we can understand the larger relationship of God with all of the redeemed through Jesus Christ. Specifically, we will study key character types in the OT with Jesus’ roles as a prophet (Moses), priest (Melchizedek), and king (David).
Finally, we consider the nature and scope of OT Messianic prophecy as it relates to providing us with a clear witness to Jesus of Nazareth as the fulfillment of the promised Christ and his coming Kingdom.
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Capstone | Module 6: God the Father
2025-10-13 18:00 - 2025-12-08 19:30
NOTE: Class will be held on Columbus Day, 10/13)
About Module 6: God the Father
The study of the person of our God, the Father Almighty, is one of the most important and richest of all studies in the Word of God. It affects every part of our discipleship, worship, and ministry; truly, as our Lord Jesus said, “And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent,” (John 17.3).
This module covers in broad outline the systematic categories of the study of “theology proper.” We begin by outlining the concepts of general and special revelation, and carefully explore the importance of studying the doctrine of God in terms of God’s immanence, i.e., his present and active involvement in creation, as well as his transcendence, God’s infinite nature and unknowableness.
We also examine God’s supreme authority and providence over all creation and history, how the Father Almighty is sovereign over all, the source of all life, and the Sustainer of all through his Son, Jesus Christ.
In addition, we will look at the biblical evidence for the Trinity, God’s triune personhood, and finally discover God’s marvelous goodness demonstrated in his moral attributes of his perfect moral purity, absolute integrity, and unbounded love.
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Dallas, TX | Urban Church Planting School
2025-10-09 - 2025-10-11 | LifePoint Church Dallas, 3203 W Davis St, Dallas, TX, 75211, United States

Indianapolis, IN | Urban Church Planting School
2025-09-05 - 2025-09-06
