That will be completely up to you and your specific needs. If you are the type who likes to highlight or make notes/underlines as you read, you may wish to have your own copy.

We understand that you may miss a class or two for various life-and-season reasons. We will do our best to supply you with any notes you may have missed from our lectures. And—we’d highly encourage you to dialog with a friend that week over what you studied, since you will have missed your group discussion time.

That said, if you are looking over your calendar and realize you are likely to miss a fair amount of classes, then maybe this semester isn’t the BEST time for you to take a class. Consider waiting until a future semester when you have a greater likelihood of full participation. You’ll be better for it.

Classes are primarily an independent, topical study (biblical theology and systematic theology), with the chief purpose of education and increasing your personal discipleship. Classes are for a set period of time (11 weeks), while groups tend to have a more ongoing nature. 

At Gospel City, our small groups have a primary purpose of biblical community—caring for each other, holding each other accountable, and living out the “one another’s” of Scripture. Typically, small groups are not focused on learning outcomes like a class would be.

Classes and groups are not meant to be a substitute for one another, but rather are designed to come alongside one another in a complimentary way. Classes are committed to advancing biblical education, and groups are committed to advancing biblical community.

After a successful beta-run of Kids Core in 2022-2023, we are evaluating ways to enhance it for kids and middle-grade students. We want to offer it again soon with the excellence that you’d expect from us. We are so very thankful to everyone who helped us with the initial run, as well as all of the feedback that was provided.

For now, Kids Core will not be offered during the winter/spring 2024 semester. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. However, we plan for Kids Core to return in the fall of 2024 with enhanced middle-grade content (Teens Core). 

While registering, you are able to name up to two other people you’d like to be seated with for discussion and we will do our best to accommodate those requests. However, we believe that Core classes are a great space for you to meet people who are potentially outside of your current circles. We’ve heard many great testimonies of new gospel friendships that were forged by participating in this class and meeting someone new.

Our Core Classes are designed to be taken in-person only.

We’re thrilled that you’ve already made the commitment to your spiritual maturation. One of the best ways to employ what you’ve learned and further put it into practice is to TEACH it to someone else. Consider taking the class again as a table facilitator for the adults, or by jumping into a Kids Core Class (returning in 2024) and helping us teach the next generation.

While challenging, these Core Classes are only scratching the surface of the deep riches that God has revealed in His Word. Both the Core Scripture and Core Doctrine classes are quick overviews of biblical and systematic theology, and we could easily spend well over 11 weeks on any one single topic addressed in those classes.

That said, we’ve launched a one-year program—Academy—that is available to church members who have completed both Core Scripture & Core Doctrine classes. Academy is designed to be a more intensive and rigorous program than our Core Classes. They will be a limited class size, and you will need to apply (vs register) to participate. (The next round of Academy will open in the Fall of 2024)

In the meantime, reference the bonus resources in the appendixes of your Core workbooks for recommended reading on specific subjects to go deeper on your own.