The First Year consists of four comprehensive courses designed to establish a strong foundation in faith, personal identity, spiritual growth, and kingdom living. Each course carries 3 credit hours, totaling 12 credit hours for the year.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.
James 1:23-25