Seminary Online Benefits
1. Seminary Training Without Uprooting
Seminary online makes it possible for students to be trained effectively and quickly without relocating. They can keep their job while they prepare for ministry, and they can remain in their community. This is especially strategic for people 30 years old and older seeking a path toward bi-vocational or full-time ministry. Seminary or Bible School training is finally available to you!
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2. Seminary Training and Freedom from Debt
- CLI training is financially available to every called and accepted student. Thus far students have been able to study tuition-free, thanks to full scholarships funded by students, individuals, foundations and churches who share CLI’s vision. Ministry students only need to purchase books for a few courses. Most of the online seminary courses now have the written materials in the course which makes the course even more accessible.
- Financial freedom allows for bi-vocational ministry or serving a smaller group. This is vitally important because 75% of American churches have fewer than 150 members; 95% have fewer than 350. Internationally most churches are very small and scarcely funded. Seminary training online is practical for bi-vocational leaders.
- More churches can be planted and remain viable if leader training costs are lower (Leaders need higher pay if their training requires that they pay for years of tuition for college and residential seminary. It is not financially viable for debt-laden leaders to live on the lower salaries that smaller groups are able to pay).
- Much has been written recently about how debt negatively affects bi-vocational seminary students Check out this post from Kurt Willems.
3. Seminary Training that is Cost-Effective
- CLI has little overhead in comparison to the typical seminary or Bible School.
- Donors can be confident that CLI offers excellent training at a fraction of what traditional Bible schools and seminaries cost.
4. Seminary Mentorship Model
- CLI partners with local sponsors and pastors who mentor students. These local leaders come alongside of the student to encourage and sponsor them in their ministry training journey..
- CLI’s vision is to support pastors in reproducing Christian leaders by allowing local pastors to have an effective option in training the new leaders who are being raised up.
5. Mission-Minded Seminary Professors
- CLI faculty members combine keen intellect with enthusiastic experience in outreach and evangelism.
- Most CLI professors have planted a church.
- All of CLI’s online seminary professors have advanced degrees and experience
- All of the professors seek to make disciples of all nations.
- Several of CLI’s online seminary professors have overseas experience.
6. Tweener Seminary Training
- CLI training is positioned between traditional seminaries and local church classes. CLI offers the best elements of seminary education at local levels everywhere on the globe.
- Aspiring leaders need not choose between the extremes of either years of full-time academic study after high school, or else starting a church with no training.
- Tweener seminary training is key for raising up a large, skilled army of church planters and leaders.
7. Contextual Communication
- CLI emphasizes actual ministry activity not the distraction of a resident seminary journey.
- Class assignments are not footnoted research papers, but quizes, papers, and interactions that support your academic training.
8. Home Discipleship
- A daily walk with Jesus and godly leadership in the home are foundational for spiritual leadership.
- CLI features an emphasis in your seminary training on cultivating daily worship at home.
- The whole CLI curriculum and training approach emphasizes character and spiritual connectedness.
- We cultivate patterns of daily Bible reading, prayer and memorization for our students.
- The first part of the getting started class focuses on home discipleship and faith foundation issues.
9. Bible Doctrine Culture
- The Bible is the Word of God, and this truth directs all teaching and learning at CLI.
- The second part of the getting started class focuses on Christian Basics that ground you in Biblical doctrine and grounds your seminary training.
10. Multicultural Seminary Culture
- CLI is training people from different ethnic groups for their ministry callings all over the world.
- Several of our professors have international experience and they bring that experience to your seminary training.
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Virtual Classroom Information
When you study with CLI, your computer brings the classroom to you.
Quicktime or Flash player will enable you to view video lectures during each course.
Word Processor
You need to have a word processor that can save documents in one of the following formats:
- Microsoft Word format (extension doc or docx)
- Rich Text Format (extension rtf)
There is a free word processor available called OpenOffice. You can download the software at the following link
This software can save documents in ether format. When you select save. Choose the appropriate file type.
Computer Requirements
You must have a high speed internet connection to watch the video presentations. Cable, DSL, satellite, or wireless.
For best results, we recommend the following items for your system
- Windows XP or higher
- Internet Explorer latest version, Mozilla Firefox latest version, Google Chrome latest version
- Quicktime or Flash Player ( for Video Presentations)
- Word Processing program that can save doc, docx or rtf compatible documents (most assignments are now copy-paste into web box)
- Macintosh OS
- Safari web browser, Google Chrome latest version, or Mozilla Firefox latest version
- Quicktime or Flash Player
(for Video Presentations) - Word Processing program that can save doc, docx or rtf compatible documents
Ministry Training at Christian Leaders Institute for the third semester 2014 includes many classes for those accepted into our program. This ministry training begins with taking the Getting Started Class. This class lays a great foundation for your ministry training online. After you complete this class, you are invited to pursue your program of study in your ministry training.
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Getting Started Class: Reproducible Walk With God and Christian Basics CLI Professors (7 credits)
This ministry training course gets you started. This course is the core orientation to Christian Leaders Institute (CLI), where you meet some of the leaders of CLI and get your computer ready for study. You will also learn about discipleship, evangelism and basic biblical doctrine. This course secures your scholarship. You will study how to get a reproducible walk with God! After you complete this class you will have full standing at Christian Leaders Institute and you will receive your first certificate, the “Christian Basics Certificate.”
Old Testament Survey Dr. David Graves and Dr. David Feddes (3 credits)
This ministry training class explores God’s Word in the Old Testament, paying particular attention to literary, historical, and theological dimensions. Your ministry will benefit from Old Testament Survey.
New Testament Survey Rev. Pedro Aviles, Dr. Jeff Weima, Dr. David Feddes
Supervisor: Dr. David Feddes (3 credits)
This ministry training course explores God’s Word in the New Testament, paying particular attention to literary, historical, and theological dimensions. Your ministry will benefit from New Testament Survey.
Church History Dr. David Feddes (4 credits)
The church is almost 2000 years old. A significant ministry training emphasis is church history. This course looks at major events and key persons in the history of the Christian church. Such study helps you to see God’s faithfulness in the past and to better understand the church’s present challenges and opportunities.
Pastoral Care and Marriage Rev. Henry Reyenga Jr., Mr. Brian DeCook, Esq. and Dr. Drew Brown (3 credits)
This ministry training course is essential for being an effective pastor. This course will cover listening skills, important relationship boundaries, conflict resolution, marriage issues including preparing couples for marriage. This important ministry training course can be taken with your spouse if you have one.
Church and Ministry Rev. Henry Reyenga Jr. (3 credits)
This ministry training course explores some key aspects of pastoring a church: praying, setting priorities, training other leaders, delegating, visiting, handling pressure, and more. It also offers guidance for dealing with important transitional events, such as baptisms, weddings, and funerals.
Hermeneutics and Exegesis Dr. David Feddes, Dr. Jeff Weima, and Dr. David Graves (3 credits)
How to interpret the Bible is an advance part of your ministry training. This course deals with key issues in how to interpret the Bible. Students learn steps for studying a passage and practice using various study tools, including computer software, to become more skilled in understanding biblical passages and preparing sermons.
Sermon Construction and Presentation Rev. Henry Reyenga ( 4 Credits)
This preaching class will strengthen your preaching as you learn basics of communication, study how to prepare and preach sermons, and watch a variety of preachers and teachers in action. You will access teaching from preachers and communicators from all over the world. You will do two messages in this course. The course is will also meet preaching core requirements.
Missions and Revivals Dr. Bruce Ballast and Dr. David Feddes (4 credits)
In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power. (Acts 19:20) This class looks at mighty things the Holy Spirit has done at various times and places, causing the church to grow in holiness, power, and numbers. By examining major mission advances and revivals, we gain insights for mission and revival in our own time and place.