Start where you are. See where God may lead.
CLC Learning Series invite you into a shared journey of Christian formation—grounded in teaching, honest conversation, daily spiritual practice, and spiritual friendship.
I’m InterestedGrounded Teaching
Engage Scripture, Church history, and the Christian faith in ways that connect with life.
Group Formation
Bring your questions and experience into guided conversation with others.
Daily Spiritual Practices
Carry what you are discovering into the ordinary rhythms of each day.
Spiritual Friendship
Walk with someone who listens, encourages, and prays alongside you.
Explore the Core Learning Series
Three series. One shared foundation.
Together, the three Core Learning Series invite you into Scripture’s story, the story of Jesus’ Church, and the core testimony of Christian faith.
You will begin with Reading the Bible Again for the First Time. Open any series to watch a short introduction and see how the larger journey unfolds.
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Core Learning Series One
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time
Experience Scripture as a unified story—and discover your place within it.
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Core Learning Series Two
Remembering Our Family History
Trace how Jesus’ Church has lived across time—and consider what faithfulness means today.
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Core Learning Series Three
Recounting Our Core Testimony
Explore the central convictions of Christian faith—and how they shape life in the Church and the world.
The Learning Experience
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time
You will learn to read Scripture as a connected story of God’s covenant faithfulness rather than a collection of disconnected passages. Teaching, conversation, and spiritual practices will help you notice how that story speaks into your own life and calling.
Watch the Series Introduction
The Learning Experience
Remembering Our Family History
You will trace the Church’s story across centuries of faithfulness, conflict, renewal, and mission. Along the way, you will consider how the choices Christians made before us can help the Church live faithfully today.
Watch the Series Introduction
The Learning Experience
Recounting Our Core Testimony
You will explore the central testimony Christians share about God’s work in Jesus Christ, the life of the Church, and the hope of new creation. You will gain language for what you believe and consider how that testimony shapes worship, community, and witness.
Watch the Series Introduction
What Participation Feels Like
Learning together is only the beginning.
Shared by all three Core Learning Series
Each CLC Learning Series follows a simple rhythm. The group gathers to learn and reflect. Between sessions, you carry one practice into daily life and meet with a spiritual friend.
This is how what you are discovering begins to become part of the way you follow Jesus—not only something you understand.
Together in the session
Engage the teaching
Explore Scripture, Church history, and Christian faith through grounded teaching designed to open reflection, deepen understanding, and invite honest questions.
Learn with others
Bring your questions, experience, and discoveries into guided conversation with people who are learning alongside you.
Between the sessions
Choose a practice
Carry one simple practice from the session into your week and notice how the learning meets the ordinary rhythms of your life.
Walk with a spiritual friend
Meet with someone who listens, encourages, prays, and helps you respond to what you are discovering.
You return to the group with something you have lived—not only something you have learned. Then the rhythm begins again.
What Joining Asks of YouWhat Joining Asks of You
Bring your questions. Bring your whole life.
Participation is both meaningful and manageable. You make room for the gatherings, engage honestly, try the weekly practices, and meet with a spiritual friend. CLC provides the teaching, guidance, and support that hold the experience together.
No prior theological training is expected. You do not need to arrive with settled answers.
A shared commitment, with support around you.
Four simple parts of the experience
You bring
Your presence
Make room for the group gatherings and come ready to listen, reflect, and take part in the conversation.
CLC provides
A prepared gathering
Grounded teaching, a prepared host, and a clear session guide give each gathering focus without closing down discovery.
You bring
Your real questions
Bring your experience and the questions you actually carry. You do not need to present a polished faith or pretend certainty.
CLC provides
Room for honest reflection
Guided conversation helps the group listen well, wonder together, and learn without rushing toward easy answers.
You bring
Your willingness to practice
Try the simple practice connected to each session and pay attention to what you notice as the week unfolds.
CLC provides
A rhythm for everyday life
Each session offers a practical response that helps learning become part of the way you follow Jesus beyond the gathering.
You bring
Your openness to spiritual friendship
Meet with someone who can listen, pray, encourage you, and help you reflect on what is taking root.
CLC provides
Guidance for walking together
Simple guidance gives you and a spiritual friend connected to your church a meaningful way to accompany the learning journey.
You do not need to know where the journey will lead before you begin.
Begin with the next faithful step.
Faith Set in Motion
What takes root in you can move through you.
The Core Learning Series are not designed to end with what you know. They help you become more attentive to what God is already doing—and more ready to take part.
Calling does not always begin with a new title or a dramatic change. It often begins by seeing the people, places, and possibilities already around you with greater clarity.
Where might God be leading?
Faithfulness can take more than one shape.
The same formation may deepen the life you are already living or open a way you never expected. The invitation is to become ready to notice and respond.
Within Your Faith Community
Serve where you already belong.
You may recognize gifts that can strengthen worship, care, leadership, hospitality, discipleship, or witness within the church and community you already call home.
Through Your Everyday Life
Live your calling every day.
Formation can reshape how you work, create, lead, build relationships, serve your neighbors, and participate in God’s work through ordinary life.
Toward an Unanticipated Place
Follow where God opens the way.
You may be led toward a new ministry, a change in vocation, a particular mission, or deeper theological study—an invitation you could not have predicted when you began.
One Possible Path
If seminary becomes part of where God is leading, completing the Core Learning Series can open a pathway toward seminary credit through additional reading, study, and writing.
Ask About Seminary CreditYou do not need to name your calling before you begin. Begin by becoming more grounded, more attentive, and more ready to respond.
Begin a ConversationA Conversation Is Enough
Could this be a beginning for you?
You may be ready to join a Learning Series. You may still be wondering whether this is the right time. You do not need to decide before reaching out.
Bring a question, a hope, or simple curiosity. Any of those is enough to begin.
What Happens Next
Begin with what you know.
Tell us what caught your attention or what you are hoping might grow. From there, CLC will help make the next step clear.
We listen.
You can begin with your questions, experience, and hopes.
We help you understand.
CLC will explain the experience and answer what matters to you.
We find a fitting beginning.
If the time is right, we will help connect you with an opportunity to participate.
Connect with CLC
Start the conversation.
Share a little about where you are. Someone from CLC will follow up personally—with no pressure and no expectation that you already have a plan.
No polished answer is required. Just a place to begin.