Strategic Christian Services

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Strategic Christian Services

• Business Leadership School- IntroCourse BLS100
  CoreCourse BLS200

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Business Leadership School- Course Summary

• The Business Leadership School is designed to
  equip owners, corporate executives, managers, and
  those aspiring to positions of leadership to
  engage the workplace from a biblical worldview.
• Participants will learn how to
• Create a Positive Company Climate of Trust and
  Effectiveness
• Effectively bring Correction and Change
• Empower People
• Skillfully Hire, Review, Promote, and Release
• Strategic Plan for long-term success
• Create a dynamic Learning Organization
• Build Customer Loyalty
• Grow multi-generational organizations
• and much more...

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Business Leadership School- Course Summary

• The Business Leadership School is a two-year
  correspondence course. To maximize the learning
  experience, each student is assigned a course
  facilitator who will assist the student in
  understanding and applying the knowledge gleaned
  from the course.
• The school commences each year with a mandatory
  three-day on-site Intensive. At the Intensive,
  students are oriented to the school and assigned
  a facilitator.
• Immediately after the Intensive, the course work
  begins. The BLS100 Introductory course is the
  first year program and the BLS200 is the second
  year course. The BLS 100 focuses on the
  fundamental differences between conventional
  economics and Kingdom economics while the BLS 200
  focuses on strategic implementation of a Biblical
  Christian Worldview in leading organizations.

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Business Leadership School- Course Summary

• Graduates are then trained to become Course
  Facilitators themselves. Also, graduates of the
  two-year course are eligible for the Graduate
  Modules BLS300.
• Course Graduates are uniquely trained to engage
  the workplace with excellence using Gods values
  and principles. Strategic Christian Services is
  proud to contribute to the advancement of Kingdom
  of God through this special learning venue.

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Business Leadership School- IntroCourse Materials

• Real change requires people leading it who truly
  know their stuff. Superficiality produces
  superficiality. Because that is true, we are
  committed to help train people to experience
  godly transformation in their personal lives and
  to the marketplace who carry the real deal.
  This requires depth of learning, some personal
  coaching, and some potentially significant
  paradigm shifts.
• Enrollment in the Business Leadership
  Introductory Course 100 includes
• The 12 part series Worldview for the Marketplace
• The 8 part series The Freedom Series
• The 8 part series Creating Wealth
• The Book Doing Business Gods Way
• Course Enrollment Facilitator oversight, Regular
  communication specifically for Introductory
  Course students, and Connection to the larger
  Business Leadership School network.

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Business Leadership School- IntroCourse Materials

• Completion of the Introductory Course 100 then
  allows the student to move into the Business
  Leadership School CoreCourse. The School begins
  with a three-day Intensive. Immediately following
  the Intensive, the student then engages the one
  year correspondence curriculum that is the
  CoreCourse BLS200.

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Business Leadership School- Core Course
Materials Summary

• Section I The Foundations of Market Place
  Ministry
• Section II Establishing Our Spiritual
  Foundations for
• Building
• Section III The Keys to Successful Business
  Life
• Section IV Solving Problems Gods Way
• Section V Managing and Mentoring People with
• Destiny

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Business Leadership School- Core Course
Materials Summary

• Section I The Foundations of Market Place
  Ministry
• 1 The Foundations of Economics and Family
• Management
• 2 Our Ministry as Kings and Priests in the
  Marketplace
• 3 Walking in Financial Freedom
• 4 Building Your Organization on Gods Word and
  Gods
• Pattern
• 5 How Your Ministry Fits into the Big Picture

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Business Leadership School- Core Course
Materials Summary

• Section II Establishing Our Spiritual
  Foundations for Building
• 6 How to Hear God for Your Business
• 7 Discerning Whom You Can Trust
• 8 Dealing with Spiritual Warfare
• 9 Business Prayers God Will Answer

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Business Leadership School- Core Course
Materials Summary

• Section III The Keys to Successful Business Life
• 10 Biblical Ethics for the Marketplace
• 11 What is Your Organization Called to Do?
• 12 Changing Man and His Institutions
• 13 The Nature and Power of Agreement
• 14 Transformation Begins with You

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Business Leadership School- Core Course
Materials Summary

• Section IV Solving Problems Gods Way
• 15 Understanding the Basics of Problem Solving
• 16 The Relational Nature of Problem Solving
• 17 Execution and Delegation
• 18 Stimulating the Commitment of Others

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Business Leadership School- Core Course
Materials Summary

• Section V Managing and Mentoring People with
• Destiny
• 19 Basic Principles of Management
• 20 Building Our Business on a Relational
  Foundation
• (Part 1)
• 21 Building Our Business on a Relational
  Foundation
• (Part 2)
• 22 Understanding the Distinctions between
  Teaching
• and Training (Part 1) (Relevance)
• 23 Understanding the Distinctions between
  Teaching
• and Training (Part 2)
• 24 Knowing When the Game Is On Gods Green Light

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Business Leadership School- 2009 Enrollment

• Duration Two Years (One lesson bi-weekly
  teachings)
• Start Date March 2009 May 2009 IntroCourse100
• Enroll online at http//www.scsbusiness.org/
• Cost IntroCourse-BLS100 295
• Core Course-BLS200 995
• Business Intensive February 2009
• Northern California
• Double Occupancy 645
• Single Occupancy 545

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Detailed BLSCoreCourse Lesson SummarySection
I The foundations of Market Place Ministry

• Lesson 1 The Foundations of Economics and Family
• Management
• Taking anything to the point of excellence is a
  process
• God is building a spiritual family which He
  expects us to mirror and model
• The family unit is the leverage point of
  societies and nations

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Section I The foundations of Marketplace
Ministry

• Lesson 2 Our Ministry as Kings and Priests in
  the
• Marketplace
• In a fallen world, the only ultimate question is
  , How do we experience transformation?
• Understanding the transformation process is at
  the center of our ministry as priests
• Christ-like rulership governs on behalf of God
  and is driven by the goal of bringing all people
  and things into their God intended fullness

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Section I The foundations of Market Place
Ministry

• Lesson 3 Walking in Financial Freedom Earl
  Pitts
• Biblical economics is based on the assumption of
  increase whereas worldly economics is based on
  scarcity
• Scripture identifies distinctives between
  wealth and riches and money money belongs
  to the world system
• The Kingdom operates on the basis of giving and
  receiving whereas the world system operates on
  the basis of buying and selling
• The closed circle concept, and knowing how to
  operate in it properly, opens up new worlds of
  possible blessing, both personally and
  philanthropically

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Section I The foundations of Market Place
Ministry

• Lesson 4 Building Your Organization on Gods
  Word and
• Gods Pattern
• A wholistic building pattern in God is found in
  these twelve principles of building foundations
• These twelve building principles can hold us
  accountable to God both in terms of our motive
  and the concepts we use to build
• A work-in-process a Christian business is as
  follows
• My Business Reform Definition-Our Working Model
  Definition
• A Christian business is a commercial enterprise
  that consistently serves its customers,
  suppliers, and employees with monetary
  compensation, products, and services which bring
  value to their lives before God, applying
  biblical principles and ethics in such a way that
  Gods Spirit has free access over actions,
  operations, and profits of those who own and
  operate the organization

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Section I The foundations of Market Place
Ministry

• Lesson 5 How Your Ministry Fits into the Big
  Picture
• In Gods created eco-system, healthy units seek
  to integrate with other healthy units
• Our purpose in God is to fulfill His ministry
  for us in life by building upon the past,
  preparing for eternity, and serving others in the
  process
• The three phases of market-place ministry
  validation, evangelism, and Kingdom economics
  will shape both the church and history

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Section II Establishing Our Spiritual
Foundations for Building

• Lesson 6 How to Hear God for Your Business
• We are called to be co-workers together with God
  (1 Cor. 3a)
• A wholistic life before God has many different
  facets of ministry (seamless garment)
• To act in faith, we must be in the process of
  aligning our motives, thoughts, and actions with
  Gods patterns and laws for us and the
  environment in which He has placed us
• God desires that we discern and cooperate with
  Him in our seasons of life and that we treat
  others similarly

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Section II Establishing Our Spiritual
Foundations for Building

• Lesson 7 Discerning Whom You Can Trust
• As we build with God, He expects us to learn
  from Him how to guard and protect what we are
  building
• Telling stories making exceptions
  circumventing systems failing to discern can
  destroy the whole house (Ecc. 712, 918)

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Section II Establishing Our Spiritual
Foundations for Building

• Lesson 8 Dealing with Spiritual warfare
• Spriritual warfare attacks both individuals and
  whole organizations in similar ways, all of which
  require knowledge, commitment and corporiety to
  defeat the them
• Our principle weapons against our spiritual
  enemy are obedience to God, wisdom, patience, and
  the ability to recognize the patterns of his
  attack with appropriate responses

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Section II Establishing Our Spiritual
Foundations for Building

• Lesson 9 Business Prayers God Will Answer
• Standing in faith before God requires a genuine
  partnership with Him
• The power of our prayer rests largely upon the
  lawfulness of our position and our petitions

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Section III The Keys to Successful Business Life

• Lesson 10 Biblical Ethics for the Marketplace

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Section III The Keys to Successful Business Life

• Lesson 11 What is Your Organization Called to
  Do?
• God-ordained creations have a design-destiny
  code that must be followed to be blessed
• Staying within our design while constantly
  working to upgrade all components of the
  organization should be our primary business goal

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Section III The Keys to Successful Business Life

• Lesson 12 Changing Man and His Institutions
• In order to bring transformation, we must first
  discover and disarm peoples inappropriate
  internal objections and presuppositions
• As previously noted, in a fallen world,
  recognizing and overcoming the obstacles to
  transformation is the major work of God in our
  lives

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Section III The Keys to Successful Business Life

• Lesson 13 The Nature and Power of Agreement
• The purpose of clear rules and agreements is to
  give borders to our freedom and continuity and
  productivity to our relationships
• The integrity of an organization can be measured
  by its commitments to clear, accountable
  agreements, open dialogues and repentance
• Letting things slide for the sake of peace
  or because we are too busy guarantees that they
  will slide downward

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Section III The Keys to Successful Business Life

• Lesson 14 Transformation Begins with You
• The need for transformation the depth of needed
  transformation and the methodology of
  transformation for both individuals and
  corporations is the issue for man on the earth
• Truth is revealed to us in God relationally and
  leads us into conceptual reality, executional
  process, and the context of community life
• Co-labouring together in God brings man and God,
  and man and man, into deepest fellowship
• Transformation, which is the game, begins in our
  internal reality (spirit heart will mind
  actions) and extends outwardly to our environment

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Section IV Solving Problems Gods Way

• Lesson 15 Understanding the Basics of Problem
  Solving
• Problems are designed by God to promote us,
  protect us, enlighten us, and change us
• Effective and consistent problem-solving
  requires the use of certain standard questions
  and concepts
• The relational, conceptual, and executional
  dimensions of problem-solving require the
  methodical application of tools in a disciplined
  manner
• Consistent, effective problem-solving requires
  that we diagram out the problem and also apply
  the seven rules as well

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Section IV Solving Problems Gods Way

• Lesson 16 The Relational Nature of Problem
  Solving
• Clear agreements, and their maintenance, are the
  foundation of a relationally healthy organization
• Mediating and helping to resolve the relational
  dimensions of problems calls us up to our
  priestly roles in Christ

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Section IV Solving Problems Gods Way

• Lesson 17 Execution and Delegation
• While leadership deals with goals and vision,
  both internal and external, management deals with
  successfully executing those goals and visions
• Why can we only delegate authority and never
  fully delegate responsibility?

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Section IV Solving Problems Gods Way

• Lesson 18 Stimulating the Commitment of Others
• Problem-solving begins with re-igniting of a
  compelling vision that pulls people up to the
  disciplines necessary to achieve it
• We must master the skills of discerning and
  building upon tested people who hear our sound
  protecting and preparing them for the inheritance
  of our lives
• The righteousness-consciousness distinctive
  keeps us in both humility and constant maturation
• Stimulating the concepts of destiny, militancy,
  family, and servanthood empowers people to press
  through problems and obstacles

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Section V Managing and Mentoring People with
Destiny

• Lesson 19 Basic Principles of Management
• Whether managing employees or sons, our
  responsibility to them both is to help take them
  to the highest level of maturity possible for
  them in the work-place context
• Certain principles of transformation, while
  universal, apply more specifically to employees,
  sons, or the entire organization

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Section V Managing and Mentoring People with
Destiny

• Lesson 20 Building Our Business on a Relational
• Foundation (Part One)
• The trinity is our relationally-based building
  pattern, and it, rather than the city of man,
  must be our model
• We must know more in general about what we are
  teaching and mentoring others in, and we must be
  clear on mentoring-relational dynamics

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Section V Managing and Mentoring People with
Destiny

• Lesson 21 Building Our Business on a Relational
• Foundation (Part Two)
• Mentoring or coaching requires that we instruct
  people, and help them get free from negative
  personal, organizational, and cultural attitudes
  and paradigms
• Slaves live in bondage and fear while sons
  live in freedom and hope in their inheritance
• Knowing when to intervene in a situation and when
  to let it alone for now is a continually
  important life-skill
• The son-Servant contrasts give us helpful
  criteria to know how to discern where someone is
  in terms of how to relate to them and their
  appropriate level of assigned responsibility

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Section V Managing and Mentoring People with
Destiny

• Lesson 22 Understanding the Distinctions Between
• Teaching and Training (Part One)
  (Relevance)
• Teaching is the conceptual communication of
  ideas, whereas training further requires the
  students ability to execute those concepts and
  teach others
• The three levels of knowing, in order to
  produce them in others, forces the
  teacher-instructor to become skilled in
  epistemology

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Section V Managing and Mentoring People with
Destiny

• Lesson 23 Understanding the Distinctions Between
• Teaching and Training (Part Two)
• The training process requires clearly defined
  expectations emulation before individual
  adaptation the nine steps of reproduction and a
  clear understanding of the power of habits,
  correction, and specific application
• Understanding and applying the training-student
  obstacles and personal learning styles is
  critical to obtaining successful training results

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Section V Managing and Mentoring People with
Destiny

• Lesson 24 Knowing When the Game is On Gods
• Green Light
• In our journey to see Christ replicated in us,
  we go through a constant series of lessons in
  which we seek obedience, understanding, and joy
• Understanding Gods green light process and
  knowing when to wisely push that light is crucial
  to us and those we lead