core classes

As a confessional church, Cornerstone holds to historic convictions based on the Bible’s authoritative revelation concerning God and man. This six-week course will dive into doctrinal truths about the persons of God and man as Creator / creature and explore how this lived-out worldview can shape our modern lives. 

The Bible isn’t just a handbook for better living, it is a life-shaping invitation to learn “the unforced rhythms of grace.” Spiritual reading is a gift if, as Eugene Peterson says, “the words are assimilated, taken into the soul — eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight.” These six-weeks are designed to help you develop spiritual habits and learn new paths of devotion and delight in God. 

History is the place where the story of God and our story intersect. History shapes our identity. If you don’t know your history, you don’t know who you are. As a church in the Reformed tradition our story has been greatly shaped by the epoch-making Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Europe. This is a tale of a monk with a mallet taking on the most powerful institutions in the world, starting a movement that would recover the gospel and revive the church for the next 500 years by knocking it off of its ecclesiastical foundations, re-setting it on scripture, grace, faith, Christ, and glory. 

Whether you lead a small group, children, or any other ministry area, you need a solid foundation. That foundation is built on an intensive exploration of bedrock biblical doctrines. Core Leadership drills deeply into the doctrines of Scripture and Salvation to quarry their rich applications for ministry in the local church. This 10-week course includes homework and examination and is required for leaders at Cornerstone.