Foundations Course 1 Teacher's Guide

Help your members understand the truths of the Christian faith in a simple, systematic, and life-changing way with the Foundations Course 1 Teacher's Guide!

Foundations, created by Pastor Tom Holladay and Kay Warren, is one of the core classes at Saddleback Church for new members to understand why they believe what they believe. Foundations has taught churches all around the world the essentials of what it means to be a follower of Jesus.

This powerful curriculum will take the new and seasoned believer alike through thought-provoking, life-changing explorations of 11 core Christian truths and challenge their perspective of how they see themselves, God, and the world around them.

And as these Christian truths impact your members’ perspective, their lives will be changed, their faith strengthened, and their worldview recalibrated to see everything through the filter of God’s truth found in his Word.

This curriculum is taught in 3 courses. Foundations Course 1 includes the following lessons:

• Introductory Study - What is Christian doctrine and why should we study it?
• The Bible: Part 1 and 2 - Where did we get the Bible and how do we know we can trust it?
• God: Part 1 and 2 - How do we know God exists?
• Jesus: Part 1 and 2 - Is Jesus God, a man, or both?
• The Holy Spirit: Part 1 and 2 - Who is the Holy Spirit and what does he do in our lives?

To effectively teach the lessons in this course, the Foundations Course 1 Teacher's Guide will help you:

Make the Christian truths clear to your congregation with extensive teaching notes, relevant illustrations, and practical applications for each lesson.

Connect your participants with God’s truths through clear explanations of doctrine words, thought-provoking insights, personal implications, and memory cards containing each core truth and a supporting Scripture.

Strengthen your skills as a communicator of God’s truth with more than 60 teaching tips.

Engage your participants with what they’re learning through thoughtful discussion questions.

Choose the pace you want to teach with a split-session plan for each lesson and three format suggestions for teaching this curriculum.

Refer your participants to additional study material found in the appendix.

Product Features:

• 280 pages
• Ideal for study groups of any size, midweek Bible studies, or Sunday school classes.
• Each participant needs their own Foundations Course 1 Participant's Guide.
• Add a visual element to your teaching with Foundations Course 1 PowerPoint Download..
• Don’t want to teach it yourself? Let Pastor Tom Holladay and Kay Warren do the teaching while you focus on your group with Foundations Course 1 Video Lessons..