What is the Savior Core Course?

The Savior Core Course is a 6-week class designed to help you to love God, live community and be a servant in the context of the Savior Community Church. By the end of this course you will be very familiar with the three bold phrases above, and what they mean. Our church is designed to help make this happen in a person’s life.

Who is the Savior Core Course for?

If you’ve been a Christian for a day or a decade you will benefit from this course. If you’re not a Christian this course is ideal for you. We start at the very beginning, not expecting that people who attend have any knowledge of Christianity whatsoever. We do however get deeper and deeper into the Christian worldview and life as we go. Thus we believe that virtually anyone can benefit from this course.

Why is the purpose of the Savior Core Course?

First Purpose: Joy & Transformation: Our prayer is that God uses this course to change your life, leading you to a deeper, more joyous experience of Christ. The information we present can’t change you, but Christ can! We seek more than information transfer, and pursue inward transformation.

Second Purpose: Spiritual Formation: Many people get the Gospel backwards. They think that God wants them to clean up their lives first, and then present themselves before Him for approval. God sent His Son to purchase our approval for us so that we could receive it as a free gift (explanation later). Once we receive this free gift God goes to work on our lives.

God’s way of changing people moves from the heart outward. He makes internal changes which effect external behavior. This process, often called spiritual formation, is not instant, entirely passive, or without need of instruction. This course is meant to teach you how to let God change you.

Third Purpose: Unity in Mission As we will learn, God has set His Church on a mission. As a local church we want to be on God’s mission to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. No doubt some of the people who join this church have been members of other good churches and are very familiar with the Gospel and the Christian life. Why ask them participate? The reason is simple. We want every person who joins our church, whether new Christian or mature, to know who we are, what we believe, what we do, why we do it, how we do it, and most of all to be on board for all of it.

Fourth Purpose: Membership We take membership seriously and so we require that anyone who wants to become a member of the SaviorCC take the Savior Core Course first. If we are going to be a healthy, faithful, and fruitful church we need to build a solid team. Membership helps us know whom we can count on. It is helpful to know who is committed to our covenant, our doctrine, our mission, our ministry, and whom we can count on to pray, work, and give toward fulfilling that mission.

We off the Savior Core Course as often. If you’re interested in taking part in the next one, let us know. You can preview the workbook here.