Church Planting Concentration

You need to complete 8 more courses and 21 more credits to mark this activity complete.

🌱 Christian Leadership Degree with the Church Planter Concentration

Start New Churches. Multiply Disciples. Expand the Kingdom.

Do you feel called to start a new church, launch a house church, or revitalize a declining congregation? The Church Planter Concentration within the Bachelor of Christian Leadership degree is for pioneering leaders ready to step out in faith, ignite gospel movements, and serve unreached or underserved communities.

Church planting is about more than starting services—it's about multiplying disciples, raising up leaders, and establishing gospel communities wherever God sends you.

🔥 Why Pursue Church Planting Training?

In a world where millions don’t know Jesus and many churches are declining, church planting is one of the most strategic ways to fulfill the Great Commission. This concentration equips you to:

Understand the biblical and theological foundation for planting
Gain practical skills in preaching, outreach, leadership, and care
Learn to disciple people and multiply leaders
Adapt models for house churches, microchurches, or traditional church starts
Minister in diverse settings—from urban to rural, global to local

📘 Courses Required for the Church Planter Concentration

To earn this concentration, you must complete the Bachelor of Christian Leadership Degree, maintain a 2.00 GPA, and finish the following 8 courses (minimum 19 credits):

✅ Core Courses (5 Required)

Church Planting (Marketing) (4 Units)
Learn the strategic, relational, and communication tools needed to launch a gospel-focused church plant.
Hermeneutics and Exegesis (3 Units)
Master sound interpretation methods to teach Scripture faithfully and lead biblically.
Ministry Care Conversations (3 Units)
Develop listening, counseling, and soul care skills for new believers and leaders.
Multiplying Disciples (2 Units)
Learn to form disciple-making pathways that result in multiplication and movement.
Capstone: Bachelor of Christian Leadership (1 Unit)
Final project integrating your calling, leadership development, and church planting strategy.

🧩 Practical Ministry Courses (Choose 2)

Developing House Churches (3 Units)
Explore house church and microchurch models and how to launch them in your context.
Disability Smart (3 Units)
Learn to plant and lead inclusive churches that serve and empower people with disabilities.
Church Revitalization (3 Units)
Gain skills to replant or renew struggling churches with gospel focus and visionary leadership.
Pastoring: The Nuts and Bolts (3 Units)
Discover the daily rhythms and responsibilities of shepherding a new congregation.
Developing Great Commission Skills (3 Units)
Strengthen your passion and effectiveness in evangelism and cross-cultural ministry.

🎤 Preaching Course (1 Required)

Sermon Construction and Presentation (4 Units)
Learn to craft and deliver compelling, biblical sermons that speak to the heart of new church communities.

🙌 What You Can Do with the Church Planter Concentration

This concentration prepares you to:

🌍 Launch and Lead New Churches

✅ Start a new church, house church, or microchurch in your city or region
✅ Serve as a church planter apprentice or team member in a church planting movement
✅ Lead a bivocational plant while working in a trade, business, or marketplace job
✅ Plant churches in unreached or post-Christian communities
✅ Organize missional communities or networked house churches

⛪ Revitalize Existing Churches

✅ Replant or renew declining churches with a vision for discipleship and outreach
✅ Bring energy, clarity, and biblical health to struggling congregations
✅ Coach others in church health and growth principles

🧱 Equip and Multiply Leaders

✅ Build disciple-making systems from day one
✅ Train lay leaders to serve, teach, and reproduce ministry
✅ Launch leadership pipelines for ongoing church multiplication

🎓 Prepare for Long-Term Ministry Impact

✅ Strengthen your preaching, theology, and practical ministry foundations
✅ Position yourself for future graduate study or ordination
✅ Combine this with other CLI concentrations (like Business or Philosophy) for specialized impact

👣 Who Is This Program For?

✅ Future church planters and movement catalysts
✅ House church or microchurch leaders
✅ Revitalization pastors or replanting teams
✅ Bivocational leaders starting gospel works in everyday places
✅ Anyone with a burning heart to see new people reached with the gospel

💰 Affordable. Flexible. Movement-Focused.

Offered through CLI’s free-access, donation-supported model, this church planting concentration equips global leaders with zero debt and full biblical support. Study online, on your schedule, with real ministry impact starting now.

✝️ Plant the Gospel. Build His Church.

Jesus said, “I will build my church.” If He’s calling you to be part of that work, the Church Planter Concentration will equip you with the training, tools, and theological depth to start strong—and keep going.

To receive the
Church Planting Concentration
You must have the credential
Bachelor of Christian Leadership Degree
Requires a 2.00 GPA and to
complete the following :

Level 3 Endorsement

5 courses required

1 course required

2 courses required

0 of 22 Minimum Units Completed