The goal of the School of Law and Government is to impart spiritual passion and practical equipping for those whose calling is in the public sphere of cultural and authority structures of the current age.

LG 100 Keys to Governmental Understanding
Instructor: Lon Stokes
How to develop a governmental view of the Scriptures, life, the world, and culture; understanding the Genesis mandate and how it affects society and culture; the Christian, and Christianity as a permeating and leavening factor in the world; engaging the systems and cultures of our time; how to avoid spiritual “triumphalism” and “reconstructionism.”

LG 101 Dividing Line: Racism as a Force in the Church and a World Power
Instructor: Lon Stokes
This course examines the effects of racism, hidden and overt, as a world power; how to develop a kingdom response; reconciliation; principles of spiritual breakthrough, understanding another’s pain and point of view; the influence of culture on racism; racism beyond the American experience.

LG 102 Relationships: The Key to Dominion
Instructor: Lon Stokes
Effective dominion begins with healthy relationships, toward God and toward our fellow man; this is a “bottom up” course emphasizing the importance of relationships in extending Christ’s kingdom. It is naïve to think we will change institutions and cultures by various forms of activism, if at the most basic levels of human relationship, in and without the Church, we cannot get along, or fail to bear Christ’s testimony as reconcilers and ambassadors.

LG 103 Manifesting the Kingdom
Instructor: Stephen Crosby
Christianity can be viewed through different lenses. Some systems believe the Christian’s mandate is to proclaim a message, hope others respond, and await the rapture. Other views believe that “thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven,” is to have dimensions of fulfillment on earth; the difference between a kerygmatic and a manifestational model of Christian life an ministry; how a manifestational view affects the day to day living of a believer.

LG 104 The Prophetic Dimension
Instructor: Scott Webster
Being “prophetic” is more than the simple ministry of personal prophecy and spiritual gifts. It includes a new ability to comprehend our world from the mind and viewpoint of God above the definitions and assumed standards of the earth. This course presents the prophetic dimension (the ability to hear His voice and obey) as the faculty of sight which results in Kingdom believers possessing fresh insights into global affairs, with actual answers for the troubling and complex issues of the planet; a new ability to rise above the fractures and carnal divisions of race, ethnicity, economic polarization and political oppressiveness; authority in God’s people to begin to function as the single unified nation of God in the midst of a broken planet.

LG 105 Understanding the Times I
Instructor: Stephen Crosby
An introduction to the philosophies and worldviews that have shaped the times we live in and how to develop an intellectually valid Christian world view and response; Voltaire, Rousseau, Marx, Freud, Darwin, Dewey, Kinsey and other influencers of the world are examined at an introductory level as well as Christian apologists who have engaged responsively in the debate such as Schaeffer, CS Lewis, McDowell, Zacharias and others.

LG 106 Understanding the Times II
Instructor: Stephen Crosby
In order to effectively engage our culture, we must be able to speak its language, understand worldviews and be able to bring Christ’s redemptive power to bear in a comprehensible, non reactionary fashion; how to intelligently talk to your neighbor, coworker, boss, the media by first understanding their world view; understanding how each of us in our spheres of life, our language, have been unconsciously absorbed non-biblical world views. This course is a good, “practical,” “how to,” follow up to LG 105, Understanding the Times.

LG 107 The Kingdom and the Systems of this World
Instructor: Scott Webster
The Kingdom of God exists in the earth as a real entity, and as such must impact and affect every system and social construct on the planet. Kingdom believers must learn how to translate their individual redemptive process into influence in the systems around them, a process which will eventually produce systemic redemption. Elijah's mandate was to confront and transcend the systems that trap mankind in mortality, and application from his life will be made to the present requirements for the church.

LG 108 The Schism of Head and Heart
Instructor: Brian Congdon
Ever since the Cartesian ideal of “I think, therefore I am” became the cornerstone of our modern worldview, our education system has repetitively laid an incomplete foundation. Our culture attempts to marginalize Christians by relegating them to a subjective, value and “heart”-based realm rather than factual objectivity. This course examines the “head-heart” division in individual believers, the church, and how its presence undermines gospel effectiveness and real relationship. The subtle worship of mind, the elitist effects of intellectualist relating; the kingdom goal of Christo-centrism, discovering and living out of one’s true identity, authentic gift operation, and the importance of symbolic heart-language expression are discussed.

LG 109 Effective Media Skills
Instructor: Stephen Crosby
How to maintain an effective Christian and kingdom presence when dealing with secular media; this course combines effective presentations, effective public speaking, with those unique skills necessary to not come across as a “bible thumping idiot” in public and media scenarios; special attention will be given to Christ’s methods dealing with public crowds; how to be as wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove.

LG 110 Foundations of American Law
Instructor: Stephen Crosby
This course introduces the student to the philosophical underpinnings of modern law from the Magna Carta, the development of British Law, the American Experience; Rex lex and lex Rex, Blackstone, Montesquieu, John Locke, and others, their influence on the Founding Fathers, and the departure from these historical roots in contemporary American jurisprudence; relativism; judicial activism.

LG 111 Innocent Blood, Demonic Strongholds in Culture, and Revival Activism
Instructor: Jim Anderson
This course is a detailed look at the teaching of innocent blood in the Scriptures and the demonic cultural influences fueled by the shedding of innocent blood; overview of the churches role in addressing abortion; essential character qualities if believers are to confront modern day high places in “activism; explores insights into the truth that the shedding of innocent blood brings a demonic cultural oppression upon a nation; linking innocent blood to its role and power in shaping cultural sexual self-identity. Personal and corporate ministry time follows teaching.

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