At a Glance
For Learning Sites, Study Groups or individual students wanting to work through the entire suite of Crosslands foundation modules with a robust curriculum.
This termly programme studies 4 modules - 1 from the Character, Bible & Doctrine, Community & World streams - a term, across 3 terms to provide a yearly curriculum.
Over the course of these modules students will see how doctrine allows for character change and drives mission, both locally and globally.
Students who complete all modules are awarded an unaccredited Crosslands certificate.
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Living the Cross and Resurrection
This course teaches you to live life shaped by the death and resurrection of Jesus. He calls us to pick up our cross and follow him. The promise is a life of suffering now and glory later. This course will encourage you to follow Jesus and let his life, death and resurrection shape your life.
Pastoral Care One
What is pastoral care? Who should do it? How does it relate to secular approaches to care for the flock? What does the Bible say about what it means to be a person and how change happens? This course walks us through answers to these questions.
Pastoral Care Two
Learn how to care for people and speak the gospel into real lives with real issues. This course is a toolbox. Building on Pastoral Care Part One, it gives you a deeper understanding of the human heart and then tackles five key problems many people face.
Bible Truth in Missional Perspective
Walk through the Nicene Creed and discover how foundational doctrines of the Christian faith shape mission and ministry in everyday life.
The Holy Spirit
Discover the Holy Spirit from a gospel perspective. Learn to discern and enjoy the work of the Holy Spirit in everyday discipleship and mission.
Bible Teaching in Missional Perspective
Learn how to care for people and speak the gospel into real lives with real issues. This course is a toolbox. Building on Pastoral Care Part One, it gives you a deeper understanding of the human heart and then tackles five key problems many people face.
Missional Church and Church Planting
Find out how the church is central to God’s plan for mission to the world and learn practical ways to make church planting a central strategy for your church.
Understanding Leadership
Leaders should be examples to others of a gospel-centred life. This course helps us recover the gospel heart and goal of leadership. It is for everyone who wants to understand how to support leaders and how to exercise leadership in their own sphere of influence as disciple-makers, small group leaders, parents and church leaders.
Beyond the Church Plant
This course takes you to the theological heart of growth and global mission: the person and work of Jesus. Following gospel centred principles, you will learn how to shape your church for growth and forge partnerships for planting and global mission.
Culture
A biblical understanding of culture equips us to engage popular culture sensitively and creatively. This course equips us to decode culture from a gospel perspective, and helps us to see how every ‘story’ intersects the greatest story ever told.
Christian Imagination
It's not enough for the church to simply critique culture and cultural artefacts. This course helps us to get proactive about culture creation in the local church.
Evangelism and Social Action
Social action flows out of a transformed heart. The gospel word produces communities who care for their neighbourhoods. Learn how social action and evangelism belong together without collapsing one into the other.
Instructors
Dr. Jonny Woodrow
Jonny Woodrow is pastor of The Crowded House in Loughborough and a Crosslands faculty member. He is married with four children and is co-author of Ascension: Humanity in the Presence of God
Dr. Tim Chester
Tim Chester is a pastor of Grace Church in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, a faculty member of Crosslands. He is the author of over 30 books and commentaries including You Can Change and A Meal with Jesus, as well as being co-author of Total Church.
Steve Timmis
Steve Timmis lives in Sheffield, England, where he is a pastor in The Crowded House. He is also the Executive Director of Acts 29. He has co-authored a number of books with Tim Chester, including Total Church, as well as authoring a couple all on his own – Gospel Centred Leadership and I Wish Jesus Hadn’t Said That!
Jonathan K. Dodson
Jonathan Dodson (M.Div, Th.M) is the founding pastor of City Life Church in Austin, TX which he started with his wife, Robie, and a small group of people. They have three children. He is the author The Unbelievable Gospel: Say Something Worth Believing, Raised? Finding Jesus by Doubting the Resurrection, and Gospel-Centered Discipleship. He enjoys listening to M. Ward, watching sci-fi, and going for walks.