CLI Free Online Ministry Training Ready To Conquer Spiritual Disadvantages
Living as a Christian in a non-Christian world can be challenging at times. We face many oppositions and spiritual disadvantages all over the world. Some are faced with imprisonment and death. Some face the challenges of not being able to publicly profess their faith in Christ. Children are even encountering persecution of the world in their own public school amongst teachers and classmates. Parents are called if their child is seen reading a bible or speaking to others about Jesus. Prayer outside the church is not allowed. The list of spiritual disadvantages that Christians face all around the world can go on and on.
As Christian leaders we must be equipped for such spiritual battles. To be encouraged by the Word of God in facing persecution. A necessary tool of knowledge to endure and keep going for the works the Lord has given and entrusted us with. With CLI free online ministry training, graduates will learn of ways to handle the spiritual disadvantages in our local area. What Jesus went through is nothing compared to our sufferings. Jesus has already showed us our worth to him. So in return, to spread the gospel, He too is worth it all.
Bill Dayton Prepares With CLI Free Online Ministry Training
Hello and may the blessings of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you! My name is Bill Dayton, and I live in the Northwoods of Wisconsin in the United States. I come from a Jewish family, who were forced to flee Belarus under the cover of night after my Great-grandfather (the head rabbi in Minsk) was murdered in front of his congregation on the steps of his temple. They set his beard on fire in order to make an example of him.
As a young man, I was forged in the fires of Torah and Messianic prophecy. Though I belonged to a religion, I couldn’t get on board with a God that would have allowed such awful things to happen to people that dedicated their lives to Him. I believed in God, but I decided that I would take the ammunition of His Word and make it work against Him. I would actively argue people out of their faith, arguing Messianic scripture with Christians, “disproving” that He could be the Christ. This has weighed on me heavily since I was brought into the fold of Christ.
You see, one day, I met my match in the form of a French pastor named Olivier. This man was absolutely consumed by the Word and on fire with the Holy Spirit. Every argument I would make against Christ would be dismantled in short order. Soon, he was using my own Tanakh against me. Psalm 22. Isaiah 53. The more I searched for a way to disprove Christ, the more I realized that it was impossible. He was the Messiah. He was the Son of God. And I knew that I had made a fatal choice. I needed to change. And the Holy Spirit blasted through me, as I dropped to my knees and accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior. This was the key turning point in my life.
I currently live in the United States, and I feel that people who live here are at a serious spiritual disadvantage. We are in a place where we don’t need to rely on God. We are rich beyond our wildest dreams…and many of us don’t even realize it. With that said, to minister to Americans in a way that moves them to live in a fashion in line with that of Biblical expectation is often times like pulling teeth. Why give up everything when all they have to do is believe in Jesus in order to be saved? I would reply that the Devil believes in Jesus, too. Christ died for us. The very least that we as Christians can do is live for Him.
My ministry dream is to plant a church that resembles that of the early Church in as many ways as possible. It would not be to form a Mega Church. Amassing congregants isn’t my ministry mission. My mission would be to show people how to live as closely to Biblical tenets as humanly possible, and when not humanly possible, let the Advocate take over. My goal is not to have people raise their hands, approach the altar, sign a card, or wear a Jesus Freak T-Shirt. My mission is to get away from bumper sticker Christianity and help develop a community that lives the Message; that evangelizes at all times, and when necessary, uses words.
I would say that Church Planter would best describe me. I am eager to start a congregation that brings the Word to the people that need it most. I would sacrifice everything to bring the Word to the prisons, to the homeless shelters, to the rehabs and hospices. We are the Body of Christ, and I take that very seriously. Seeing millions of people die each year without being given the opportunity to know Christ is what calls me to ministry. My local church has supported me in my call to ministry by both pastors becoming mentors, as well as allowing me to be a part of the new Youth Evangelization training program.
I have five children, with another on the way. Being a father has changed my life in ways that I could never have imagined. God has blessed me by allowing me to marry my best friend and mentor in faith. He is the true head of my household, and we all know that. My family is completely behind me in this decision, and we are all very eager to do the will of God. Because I have been blessed by the Lord with such a large family, it would be nearly impossible to afford the cost of an education through a typical seminary. On top of that, to spend time away from home on a physical campus could put an unnecessary burden on my wife in my absence. With CLI free online ministry training, it will allow me to grow in my faith, to develop ministry skills that I would otherwise not have access to, and give me the opportunity to help grow the Church.
All that matters to me in the entire world is to do the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, and so I would ask that you pray for me on this journey of faith that the Holy Spirit guides me in a direction that would always be pleasing to the Father.
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With a variety of ways to be involved in ministry, get a biblical education with CLI free online ministry training classes to transform the lives of others. Click here to fill out our application form and begin taking the Getting Started class immediately! Also, check us out on Facebook to see how our students are blessed with CLI free online ministry training!!
Ministry Training Online To Plant Future Churches
What is church planting? Church planting is a process that results in a new, local Christian church being established. With ministry training online, future Christian leaders are equipped to be involved in this process. For a local church to be planted, it must eventually have a separate life of its own and be able to function without its parent body, even if it continues to stay in a denominational relationship or through being part of a network. Leaders are seeking out ministry training online to not only plant future churches, but to also be a part of other ministerial works. From youth leader to pastor, evangelist to church planter, ministry training online will help you achieve your ministerial dreams!
Read the story of one CLI student as she is doing so much right now while receiving ministry training online and one day will plant a church!
Ministry Training Online To Fulfill Many Ministerial Dreams
My name is Ashley Benz and I am currently living in the United States of America. I am a youth leader at my local church and an aspiring pastor. Ministry in the United States is very different from other places in the world. Here, people are more open about their faith or beliefs whether they are Christian or not. Doing ministry in the United States is a great opportunity because you can have the privilege of meeting and evangelizing to different races of people from all walks of life. Living in Hawaii, the geography creates a different dynamic than most people are used to. The challenges of Hawaii include distance (making sure churches are easily accessible to everyone) and church culture (establishing a family dynamic). I have enrolled in the Christian Leadership Institute so that I may further my knowledge and understanding of God and ministry and be able to transform the world for Jesus.
I came to know the Lord through my parents at a young age. I accepted Jesus, on my own, when I was four years old. I have attended church for my entire life. My accepting Jesus at such a young age, I came to grow up in the church. Eventually, my walk with Jesus grew stale and I found myself going to church for the sake of the people there and not so much for my relationship with God. However, in 7th and 8th grade, I entered into youth ministry at my church and my entire view of Jesus changed. I started to really read my Bible, raise my hands in worship, pray, and seek out spiritual gifts from the Holy Spirit. Since falling in love fully with Jesus, my relationship with Him has taken me to new heights and has allowed me to do so much more then I ever could without Him. My experience of meeting with Jesus in youth ministry prompted my decision to become a youth leader. I have been a youth leader for five years and I can identify with the words youth leader and pastor and church planter because a youth leader is what I am, a pastor is what I want to be, and I would like to plant a church or help plant a church someday.
My ministry dream is to one day leave my local church and branch off to start a church with some of my close friends and mentors that have the same heart and call as me. I hope to establish a church to be named New Life Church in Spokane, Washington. I aspire to create a church culture that thrives and attracts people from all walks of life to experience Jesus in a real, engaging, encouraging way. I also desire to start a halfway house were victims of human trafficking can receive healthcare, therapy, and the good news of Jesus. My local church has helped me in this calling by allowing me to connect with people who have the same dreams as I do and by equipping me to serve people and by allowing me to strengthen my walk and love with Jesus. My family has also supported my dreams, by allowing me to freely learn and devote time to the call that I believe God has placed on my life and by praying for me and encouraging me.
Please pray that, when the time comes, the appropriate funds would be given to start a church and that my church would have grace on me as a leader and that they would continue to support me and give me more opportunities to serve. Please pray that God would supply me with finances for living and for being in ministry, as well as, that I can be a good small groups leader for the students in my care.
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Leading Others to Christ, From the Youth to the Prison Gates
As Christian leaders, we are dedicated to our Lord in serving Him fully. We struggle, we fall. We strive, and we get back up again. Our own walk is essential in being examples to others, especially children. The little hands and feet of our children watch us the closest. They mimic what they hear and see. They become little “me’s.” Their little itching ears are ready to absorb whatever information you give them. So why not give them Jesus? Why not bring up our little ones to know that we do not mistreat human beings?
Not all children are consumed by the power of love. We grow up bitter, resentful, angry, and eventually just numb from it all. There was no childhood of growing into a relationship with Jesus, with God. And with the hurts in our lives from birth to current age, without knowing God, we become easily misguided by the world. The world tries to solve our brokenness, but nothing works. It may relieve temporary sadness, but the truth is, only God can take our pain fully and give us rest from sorrow. Jesus heals and more than just sicknesses. Our pain is not too much for God to handle.
With a national overcrowding of American citizens caught up in the jails and prison institutions, it is easy to see that many people are broken and misguided by the world. Let us have deep compassion for even those who are behind bars. Let us bring them the truth of a God who loves them. Let us give them hope as they find that God used a man named Moses who was a murderer. No matter what a person has done, God is willing to forgive them and call them son or daughter.
From the Prison Gates to the Church to CLI’s Free Bible College
My name is Debra Arnett and I am blessed to live in the United States Of America, where I am free to share the gospel and minister to others. I am a mother of 3 step children and a daughter of my own and have been married for 8 years.
I was not exactly raised in church but I was taught enough and attended enough that I knew the basics of God, Jesus, the Bible, Sin and Salvation. A seed was planted and I remember having a deep desire for the Lord and I know that I knew I had a calling at the age of 13. I never understood why, no matter how much I WANTED to do what I knew in my heart was right, I continued to live a life that was not of God.
I was in and out of Juvenile centers from 13 to 16 years old and then I became a drug addict at 16. At 17, I committed a crime that sent me to prison for 12 years. It was after years of rebelling, fighting, attempting suicide and running that I was so broken and alone in a prison cell that I finally began to call on God and truly repent and became saved. I spent 4 months doing nothing but praying,reading,and searching God’s word as well as my own life, heart and spirit. I became happier right there, IN PRISON than I had ever been! I got out in 2006 and met my husband and married. Had my daughter in 2007 and I fell off my path and abandoned my Christianity. It was not until 2013 that I repented once again and began to search for God’s plan for my life. It was through AA that I reached out to God again, I had become an alcoholic!
Today, I am where God has led me to be and am involved with a ministry group that is church planting and I am living the life I was created to have and live. My ministry dream has always been to minister to and help troubled youth and kids that are now on the path I once was or who lived the childhood I lived and need to be ministered to or to those who simply have no spiritual guidance.
CLI’s free bible college is so utterly important to me at this point in my life because God has led me away from my home state, my friends and my family to a place we knew no one, a place where I have been humbled through the loss of worldly possessions and money. So, at this time, the time I have been called to begin my journey in ministry, I have no resources to pay for the training needed to fulfill my calling. I know this is going to change soon and, to me, that is the most amazing thing about a free bible college like CLI, that you can get the training needed even while you cannot afford it and can later give to continue the blessings and pass them on to others.
My only prayer request is that I continue to grow and understand more and more the exact nature of my calling into youth ministry as well as the desire I feel to also do prison ministry. I am so thankful for this opportunity and I pray that each and every person who donates to support this program knows that they are not just giving money but are truly changing lives that otherwise may never have been changed!
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