High-Quality Seminary Training
CLI Student Chase went from believing in the Baha’i faith where all religions have essential worth, to being saved and pursuing high-quality seminary training at CLI.
Read about how Chase discovered his passion for Christianity and high-quality seminary training below:
My name is Chase and I am from the United States. Let me just start by saying I love the Lord Jesus Christ with all my heart! I am fortunate to live in the United States with how much freedom of religion there is! I can preach whichever denomination of Christianity I want. And I know this is not the case for many countries, so I feel so blessed and that I should take advantage of my opportunity!
I had been raised all my life as a member of the Baha’i faith. It got to a certain point though where I started going down a dark sin filled path. However, my amazing and incredible wife showed me the love of Jesus Christ and brought me out of the darkness and into the light. It wasn’t until last Easter that I was baptized along with our daughter, that I was suddenly filled with an intense fiery passion and desire for more spiritual knowledge, and to make the gospel more well known. I prayed to God asking for enough money to send me to seminary school. And then a light bulb went off when God answered me and I googled “Free Seminary School”. God answered my prayers with CLI! Now I have the means necessary to study a high-quality Divinity Bachelors program and become proficient in Gods word so that I can be the best biblical husband and father as possible for my family and then the best pastor as possible for our brothers and sisters!
This class helped me greatly to confirm my walk with God and only strengthened my desire to pursue ministry training. My eventual dream is to become a pastor, vocational and then maybe vocational depending on Gods plan. I want to be able to make my brothers feel good by guiding them spiritually and being able to marry Gods children and comfort others when friends and family pass to the kingdom of God. I feel God calling me to fulfill his will this way. Most recently my family and I were facing a personal difficulty that could have gone horribly wrong. But we had faith in the Lord and prayed for his grace and prayed for his will to be done. And our situation was resolved! I know it was God telling me to do something big in the name of Jesus Christ.
Reading the Bible opens one’s eyes to a whole new spiritual world. It is Gods word, so we should treat it as such a cherish is every day and listen to God with us every day. It is all one needs to be happy in life. This world is only material and with Jesus Christ, as our Lord and Savior, we have eternal spiritual life in His kingdom on high. Gods word, the Bible, tells us this repeatedly. I am now much more confident, positive, happy, and I feel great! I am sharing my fiery passion with my family so we can all show the world through our words and actions Jesus Christ’s love! CLI has made it possible for me to fulfill Gods plan for me, and to be the best biblical man for my family and best pastor for our brothers and sisters. I ask that you pray for my continued spiritual growth, and for God to guide me through this ministry training and beyond. Thank you CLI, and thank you, God!
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Kentucky Free Biblical Training
CLI Student, Carla Knowlton, is a talented writer who has a passion for men, women, and child ministry she is receiving Kentucky free biblical training at Christian Leaders Institute.
Read about how she is receiving Kentucky free biblical training at CLI below:
My name is Carla Knowlton. I live in Kentucky in the United States. I have been married for 22 years, and we have two adult children. My husband has been ordained as a minister, and we prayerfully wait for the Lord to open doors of opportunity for him.
I was raised in an environment where Christianity was the right thing to do, although it was only occasionally practiced. As a young adult, I followed the same pattern – I believed in God and wanted to live for Him. I would attend church for a time and strive to do good, then fall away and end up in the “world”, living only for myself. In time I began to believe that Christianity wasn’t for me – that I couldn’t do it. I always failed. I always disappointed God. I then determined to never have anything to do with Him again. It wasn’t worth it. After a couple of years, I had an experience in which God absolutely invaded my heart. He broke down in a moment every wall I had built and filled me with such a love that I had never thought possible. In time, as I grew in the Lord, I came to understand that my past “failures” was because I had been trying to live according to “works”. When I messed up, I allowed myself to believe that I was failing God and that He couldn’t/wouldn’t love me anymore, because I was too messed up.
It has been 10 years since that day that the Spirit of God invaded my life, and although I am far from perfect and sometimes still struggle to see myself as He does rather than by my “merit”, He has been faithful to keep me all these years. He has never let go, even when I have been too weak to hold onto Him.
During the years, I have been used in many varied ways. I do not know exactly where the Lord will lead me, or what “title” one could give to the ministry that He has called me to. He speaks to me of so many things – writing books (I do have one published); writing songs; praise & worship service; I hear sermons in my mind; I have so many ideas for men’s ministries, women’s ministries, youth ministries… My former pastor said that the Lord speaks to me as He does a pastor’s wife, as the pastors must have a hand in every part of the church. I have laid up his council in my heart, while I wait for the Lord to confirm or deny and to lead as He desires. I only know that the greatest passions of my heart are (1) being a pillar – a strong, upholding support – for pastors, for they are the servants of the entire congregation and are often without encouragement or support, and (2) writing for the glory of God.
For many years, I have desired a higher education in my spiritual walk. I have researched colleges, seminaries, etc. too many times to count. My husband is on disability due to a back injury, my adult son has autism and lives at home, and I am a homemaker. We could not afford the cost of a quality education when my husband and I both worked; now with one small income, it is completely impossible. But with God, all things are possible! While doing yet another internet search, I came across Christian Leaders Institute. I am pleasantly surprised with the quality of education provided by CLI, and the availability to those who cannot afford it but who still feel the call of God on their lives astounds me. I am so thrilled and thankful to God for providing this opportunity to me, and to all involved with CLI for allowing God to use them in this manner and for following this call on their own lives. I believe that my education at Christian Leaders Institute will strengthen my own walk with the Lord, enable me to effectively speak to others about Christ and His Gospel, and equip me to be a viable leader in whatever capacity He chooses to place me in.
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Free Online Christian Training
Become a strong and authentic leader today. Christian Leaders Institute (CLI) offers free high-quality online ministry training. CLI accepts any individual anywhere in their life to learn about Christianity. Read a student’s testimony below who found CLI’s free online Christian training as a tool to renew his the walk with Christ:
I hail from Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Although a ‘first-world’ country, it is becoming increasingly challenging to practice ministry due to increasing self-reliance and ‘enlightenment’ of the population through the focus on higher education. I know this sounds a bit counter-intuitive, but my experience and popular culture has shown me that the more degrees a person has, and the higher education achieved, the more a person believes they can do and figure everything out for themselves with little or no dependence on others, let alone God.
I’ve always been familiar with God, being brought up in a Christian home, but I began my personal relationship with God more in my adult years after becoming a parent and losing a number of close family members. I believe it took those experiences for me to realize I really didn’t have all the answers, nor the power to control every aspect of my life. I also had the benefit of learning some hard lessons through some experiences that quite frankly made me angry at God. However; only as time passed did I realize that God had a direct hand in all the struggles with a plan to build me up and create new, better opportunities for me and my family.
This introductory class with the Christian Leaders Institute has renewed my Bible walk with God, reinforcing the different connections necessary, especially around devotions and studying the Bible while reminding me of my role and responsibility as the spiritual leader of my household.
Of all the options, I would say I identify most with the title “Small Group Leader”, as my passion is focused on building other leaders and mentors that will lead others using Christ’s example, showing believers and non-believers alike the benefits of seeking to be a disciple of Christ. This is something I want to pursue as I see far too many leaders that are too selfish and focused on protecting themselves at the cost of others.
A unique challenge here in Canada is the cultural popularity to promote everything that is not related to the Christian faith and treat Christian believers as an oppressive force that must be shut down and penalized all in the name of pluralism of all except for the Christian Church.
My local church is actually a church plant itself, focused on reaching the unchurched and de-churched in the community. I have been regularly encouraged to explore ministry as a bi-vocational leader and have been given opportunities to take a leadership role within the Church itself.
A scholarship at CLI would assist me in exploring more focused biblical studies without putting undo pressure on my family’s limited resources as well as allow me to study at my own pace while working full-time.
The prayers I would ask for are not necessarily for me, but for all those in Canada, and the world, that has not seen the light of Christ, or have been mistreated by those calling themselves Christian, and that they see what Christ has done and is doing for those that seek to be disciples, not just Christians.
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