In-depth guide to Foundations21

Foundations21 provides a wealth of resources for discipleship and lifelong Christian learning. Its learning environment comprises twelve Rooms, each of which focuses on a single theme.

Within each Room are four Pathways which reflect four different learning styles. When you start Foundations21, you can take the Gospel Learning Style Quiz to find out which of the pathways is most likely to suit the way you like to learn.

There are three different Levels within each pathway: the first explores the essentials, the second looks deeper, and the third goes further still, allowing you to study the themes in greater detail.

Foundations21 includes a library of additional resources where you can check out information, put it in context and discover who, what, when and why! A Cyclopedia and a Timewall combine to answer the questions you might want to ask about the history, people and key beliefs of Christians down the ages. The Foundations21 website itself has more than 3,500 pages, with content drawn from a range of authors, organisations and publishers, and including more than four hours of original video and more than 7,500 weblinks.

There's also a range of devotional resources, updated daily and offering fresh inspiration, a Bible reading and comment, plus a weekly focus on a different region of the world to pray for.

The Rooms

1. Jesus
2. The Bible
3. God the Father
4. The Cross and Resurrection
5. The Holy Spirit
6. The Church
7. Prayer
8. Worship
9. Intimacy with God
10. Christian Lifestyle
11.Christian Ministry
12. Christian Mission

The Pathways and learning styles

Within Foundations21 there are four separate and distinct pathways through the material. These four pathways reflect the learning styles of the Gospels:

Matthew's Gospel

is the longest and has a strong emphasis on teaching
builds on the spiritual inheritance of the past
has a logical and identifiable structure

The Matthew pathway, like an ancient scroll, unrolls to reveal each page. It's sequential and offers the opportunity to delve deeper into each topic.

Mark's Gospel

is the shortest
offers an account that concentrates on the important facts, a bit like a newspaper report
frequently uses the word 'immediately', which injects the account with a sense of pace, purpose and challenge

The Mark pathway is set out like a newspaper. You can skim through it or read the back page first. It's quick but there are plenty of links to explore here too.

Luke's Gospel

highlights the relationships people had with Jesus and one another
was written specially for a particular person to tell them about Jesus
takes you, together with his account of the Acts of the Apostles, on a journey with the disciples from Jesus' birth to the establishment of the Church

The Luke pathway is navigated step by step and includes plenty of stories of how people have lived out their faith.

John's Gospel

is rich with spiritual imagery and ideas along with in-depth accounts of individuals encountering Jesus
offers its readers numerous ways into deeper reflection
is the most complex and yet contemplative of the four Gospels

The John pathway has considerably more content that the others with opportunities to explore any number of different views and aspects of the subjects covered within Foundations21.

'Foundations21 offers a seemingly exhaustive choice of well-researched, in-depth study material - and an online community to share it with.'
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