CLC Learning Series

The mission of the Church begins with the mission of God. From the beginning, God has been at work restoring His creation and drawing His children back into life with Him. God called Israel to become a visible community of justice, peace, and human flourishing. In Jesus, God entered the story personally, accomplishing what His people could not accomplish for themselves. Now the Church lives betwee...

Christians believe that after His resurrection and ascension, Jesus did not leave His followers alone. Through the Holy Spirit, Christ continues His work in the world today. At Pentecost, God poured out His Spirit upon His people, forming a renewed humanity—the Church. The Holy Spirit does far more than give individual believers comfort or strength. He forms ordinary people into the Body of Christ...

Christians believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human. Throughout history, the church has wrestled with understanding both who Jesus is and what He accomplished through His life, death, and resurrection. While Christians have described Christ's saving work in different ways, each perspective helps us appreciate the depth and richness of God's salvation. This session invites u...

Seeing Reality Through Faith Every person lives by faith. Whether we recognize it or not, we all carry assumptions about where we came from, why we exist, what gives life meaning, and where history is headed. These assumptions become the lenses through which we understand reality. Christianity begins with the conviction that the world was created by God, that humanity matters deeply to God, and th...

Ever felt like the Bible is a collage of quotes rather than a coherent story? We open a fresh path through Scripture by tackling two big questions: what lens are you using to read, and where does the Bible say its own writing begins? Instead of snacking on isolated verses, we lay out a plan to read in big, connected sections so themes, promises, and tensions can breathe. We name the three macro wo...

This final session brings the whole story into view. Across centuries, we’ve seen the Church rise, fracture, gain power, lose credibility, reform, and expand. Now we arrive at the modern world—  where faith is no longer assumed,  power is no longer guaranteed,  and the Church must rediscover what it truly is. Mission spreads globally.  Christians engage injustice and inequality.  And the question...

The Enlightenment sharply challenged Christianity, calling into question its belief in God, revelation, miracles and human need for divine salvation. Naturalistic evolutionary theory sharply challenged biblical doctrines of creation and the uniqueness of humanity. A major Christian response to these challenges was privatization of belief, anti-intellectualism, division of life into “sacred” and “s...

We trace how the Bible’s storyline shapes church history and why the mission stays steady even as God’s strategy changes through Jesus and the global church. We then follow the shockwaves of Constantine as Rome, councils, theology, and Christian life reshape one another for the next 400 years.  • The Bible framed through mission method managers meltdown miracle mutation  • Constantine’s endorsemen...

In the midst of severe persecution, Christianity seemed vulnerable and exposed. Then everything changed. Through Constantine’s rise to power, Christianity moved from being a persecuted movement to a tolerated — and then increasingly favored — religion within the Roman Empire. This brought relief, visibility, and new opportunity. But it also brought new complications. As the Church gained peace and...

The story of the Church did not end with the New Testament. After Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, the gospel began spreading through the Mediterranean world as ordinary believers carried the message of Christ into new cultures and societies. The world into which Christianity was born had been uniquely prepared — through empires, roads, trade routes, and shared languages — allowing the message o...