The Bible informs us that we should get an understanding, but sometimes there isn’t an opportunity to ask the right questions or in some cases we want to seem as though we know all the answers. The CLI basic course has given me answers. Not answers about what the Word of God says, but answers to who God wants me to be. I was dealing with some doubt about being a Co-Pastor and what the duties entailed. I was questioning God regularly about His decision to call my husband to a Pastoral commitment and I was at a level of sadness because I wasn’t sure of myself or this call that I felt had been forced upon me. Through my studies, I learned to hear the voice of the Lord, change my thought pattern, understand who God really is and the relationship He desires to have with me. He opened my eyes to the many connections I can make and I learned all this through the time I started spending with Him in prayer, opening up His word more, and repeatedly sharing the excitement that was coming off the pages.
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My name is Tina and I live in the United States. Although I live in the United States, I sometimes feel isolated in the ministry because the sin of mankind has grown exponentially. We are still free to worship, but the restrictions are compounding daily. I will always proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I will never agree with sin. The world in which we live in has tried to satiate us with all that’s wrong before the Lord and it is imposing its views on us while slowly stripping us of our religious freedoms. Whereas I don’t live in a country that is persecuting me yet, there is definitely a second persecution of Christ and all that He stands for. We have to mind that we aren’t imposing our views on others. Yet it’s perfectly fine for all the things that oppose Christ to have a spot in the limelight. We are infringed upon through television shows, commercials, billboards, school curriculum, and radio talk shows that teach our kids that sin is okay. The experiences that are out there are far from God and lacking the moral integrity of Christ. It will be highly important for true believers to truly walk this Christian life upright before God so that we can hear from heaven.
I was born again at the age of twelve. Thanks to an aunt who was persistent with her Christian walk. My experience with God has been a joyous one, but there has been things lacking. I was not sure what it was until I started these basic courses with CLI in revival leadership training. The thing that I realized is that God’s word is deeper than I had ever experienced. As I began this course my thoughts were that I knew a great deal about what the word says and how to operate in the word, as well as the infinite power of God’s word to transform lives. What I hadn’t counted on was that in the very basic principles of God’s word was a transformation for me. As we met every Tuesday night to discuss the Word in a structured course, the Holy Spirit of God illuminated the Word and the words that were on the page began to live in my soul in a deeper aspect.
My husband is a called Pastor and through his divine calling I accepted my calling as well. It was rather difficult at first, but my husband assigned me as the leader of the CLI discussions and my task was to make sure everyone in the room left on one accord. Not only did we enjoy the discussions and were able to totally agree about the word, I went to another spiritual level in God and my life has started this metamorphism into the woman of God that He wants me to be.
We have bible study every Thursday at our church and the study is rich, but in that study I’m a participant in a different manner than my revival leadership traing in CLI. I’m a student on Thursday nights, but on Tuesday’s I have to impart the Word using the CLI curriculum and the Word has to come to life. So I strive harder to gain an understanding which has increased my seeking the Lord. As I have sought diligently after the Lord in these studies, I’m finding Him in ways that I never imagined.
We desire the sincere, effectual, and fervent prayers of the righteous to help us keep the mind of Christ and the focus of God in our ministry.
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I moved from denomination to denomination seeking to understand their teachings. Eventually I got so caught up in one that I became so dogmatic that my relationship with Jesus Christ faded into a ritualistic and judgmental attitude (I had forgotten my first love). Due to this, I was looking at my works instead of God’s grace and I became so disappointed in myself when I would miss the mark in some area in my life and I allowed Satan to deceive me to the point that I could not understand God’s Word as I had. Everything had been mixed up. So I left the church and became “atheist or agnostic” terms that I use lightly because I believed in God and I knew Christ and had experienced the Power of the Holy Spirit but was just not focusing on that at the time. Psalm 14:1 was fulfilled in me where it says,
“He who says in his heart there is no god is a fool.”
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My name is John Anthony West. I am the son of David Michael West and Rosa Marcella Price. I have two siblings, a brother named Jason and a sister named Angela (Angie for short). I was born in Marion on February 26, 1991 and graduated from Marion High School on May 28, 2009. I attended John A. Logan College from January of 2010 to March of 2011 where I completed some of my general education. I attended Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps in pursuit of computer service technology from September 3, 2013 through April 30, 2014. I came to Christ at age 7 and was baptized on Easter Sunday after having been taught the gospel by my mom and my paternal grandmother.
Growing up I had a very dysfunctional and unusual family environment. During my teenage years I struggled with smoking and drug and alcohol use, as well as pornography. In High School, I found a new church to call home at third baptist in Marion where I gave up my addictions to Christ and received the calling as a Pastor. I started making choices in my life that were crucial to my calling. During my spiritual growth, God laid the high priestly prayer of Jesus in John 17 on my heart and showed me that His family can sometimes be as dysfunctional and divided as an earthly one if His children take their eyes of off His Word.
After I completed Job Corps, God started reaching out to me. He started convicting me of what I was doing and reintroducing His grace to me. He started teaching me that having the knowledge of Jesus Christ is more than knowing a lot about Him, it’s knowing Him as a person in the form of an intimate relationship. And so, I started seeking this intimacy with Christ and He told me I needed fellowship with other believers, that Satan was isolating me to keep me from doing God’s will because I was a threat to his plans. So I started going to a little group that would meet at a house every Friday night and we would read the Word and pray and worship God, lifting each other up in songs and psalms as Scripture says. That group prayed that God would clear me of all confusion concerning His Word and bring me all clarity and understanding. So God has been calling me back to Himself and not only do I know His Word but I am in love with it and am letting it get into every part of my life.
So God has renewed my calling as a Pastor but also to break down denominational barriers and draw the body of Christ together so that Jesus might be glorified, and through that the world may see and be drawn to His Salvation. “By this they will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35).
Lastly, a free online pastoral diploma with Christian Leaders Institute would help me greatly to accomplish my calling as a Pastor. I seek to study and show myself approved and strengthen my theological understanding and practical skills, but do not have the means to pay for a university. I believe this opportunity was drawn to my attention by God and is one of many steps to my growth and development in my faith. Keep me in your prayers as I seek God’s direction in every day life so that my place in His ministry will grow as He wills.
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I love reading the Bible and studying God’s Word. I felt God was wanting me to learn more but I could not afford the big name Bible colleges. I tried to take a class last fall and it really was too much financial strain on the family. I looked up free Bible college on the internet and Christian Leaders Institute came up. I believe this could help me be a better shepherd, as a bi vocational pastor, to lead the flock that God has trusted me with. I love the Lord and want to see souls saved and changed for the kingdom of God and to give Him all the glory!
My name is Michael Woodrum. I am forty-one years old and I live in Campbellsville, Kentucky. I have a full time job and am a bi vocational pastor. I am married to my wonderful wife, Marsha of 22 years. We are blessed with 2 children. Kelsey who is 16 and Blake who is 13. We also had one child, Brandon who went to be with the Lord at 5 days old. I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior when I was 27 years old. I was not raised in a church or in a Christian home. After being married for 5 years, my wife and I were not happy and going through a divorce. I had nowhere else to turn and went to a small country church. The Lord convicted me of my sins. I made my way to the altar, gave my heart to the Lord, and he saved me. He gave me my wife back and gave me life and hope.
About 5 months after receiving Jesus I had a serious accident; a horse threw me off. I had some superficial injuries however he kicked my ear off. I went through several surgeries near home and made several trips to Atlanta (six hours away) to have a new ear constructed. I have an ear it’s not like the original that God gave me though. I look back now and could see that I was not in the center of God’s will. At that time God was merciful to me, I could have been killed very easily.
Sometime later, God called me to preach but I ran from the calling for about 4 years. I was still very active in church. I never missed anything, but I finally surrendered to preach on August 22, 2006. I began to preach filling in at churches, at the nursing homes and jail. I went wherever I was called. Although throughout our journey, my wife and I thought were heading toward the mission field and could never picture ourselves stationary pastoring a church as a bi vocational pastor, but that is exactly where God put us. Having learned this lesson the hard way previously, I try my best to stay in God’s will and go where He leads.
We have been at our first pastorate for almost 2 years now. The church is growing and we have seen good things this year; salvations, re-dedications, people joining the church. We have someone new visiting the church at least a couple times a month. We are a small Southern Baptist Church which usually has around 50 on Sunday mornings. Although, like most we drop near half on Sunday night and even less on Wednesday. We are trying to work with the youth through the week in special mission studies. It has definitely been a change, and an eye opener.
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