Free Life Skills Class – Become a Stronger and Healthier You
by Professor: Dr. David Feddes
You are part of God’s special operations. Your mission is to reclaim the world for Christ. You have been saved and called to help. This class is about helping you to become a stronger and healthier you. This free life skills class is perfect for living a more confident and healthy life!
This free life skills class gives you Biblical insights and practical knowledge that make you stronger for your mission. Each topic is applied to your spiritual, physical, financial, intellectual, emotional, relational, and vocational dimensions of life.
Dr. David Feddes will bring you through the crucial areas of total fitness for you to thrive in leading others.
You will Learn and Grow in this free life skills class
- Total fitness: hear God’s call to embrace practical wisdom and discipline for strengthening the whole person.
- Spiritual fitness: draw near to God and stand stronger against Satan through spiritual disciplines.
- Physical fitness: know why the body matters to God, improve bodily health, and use body language well.
- Financial fitness: earn a good living, escape debt, build wealth, honor God and bless others with money.
- Intellectual fitness: build healthy curiosity, sharp thinking, lifelong study, and courage to stand for truth,
- Emotional fitness: learn to face feelings honestly and discover God working through emotions.
- Relational fitness: heal from past relational wrongs and wounds, and interact with others in a wise and godly manner
- Vocational fitness: pursue God’s calling for job, career, and other tasks.
You are welcome to take this free life skills Class supported by generous vision partners. These vision partners include blessed Christian Leaders Institute Graduates, Kingdom-minded Christians and Foundations, and others.
Begin your free life skills course now! You will begin by taking a Getting Started Orientation class. Then you are encouraged to enroll in the Christian Leaders Connection Class which helps you get situated at Christian Leaders Institute. You are also free to immediately take this Total Fitness class by Dr. David Feddes.
Other Opportunities:
More Ministry Training Classes and Programs -These Ministry training programs will fuel your calling and increase your impact. Gather digital mission credentials or order official awards. These credentials are perfect for local ministry opportunities and ordination.
Ordination – Completing free classes opens you up to an ordination opportunity that is both locally and globally recognized with the Christian Leaders Alliance. Check out how you can become an Ordained Christian Leader. Low fees apply for ordination packages.
College Degree – Earn your College Degree – Use your Christian Leaders Institute free classes for collegiate credentials. Earn certificates, diplomas and degrees. Low administration fees apply.
At Christian Leaders Institute, one of the challenges is the ever-present difficulty of determining the effectiveness of the training. As part of an effort to accomplish this, CLI asks students to submit final reflection papers in some of their classes. One such class, Church and Ministry, seeks to teach students what it means to lead a church. In her final paper, Angela Palle of the United States has this to say about Church and Ministry.
“This course has blessed me in ways I cannot even begin to describe. Before taking this course, pastoring to me was being knowledgeable in the word of God and being able to teach it… …this course has taught me that just knowing the word of God is not enough. You must be sensitive to situations, in your response…”
As Angela begins her reflection, she talks about the greatest impact that this course had in her life. The realization that leading a church well requires more than just knowing the word of God and teaching it is central to any church leader. In Church and Ministry, Angela was able to gain a new understanding of this truth.
As she continues to reflect on Church and Ministry, Angela says “…I always believed the pastor should be an example of organization, uprightness, holiness and what have you. But if you allow your Christians to see your human side you make your position and the standards you set reachable.” Later on she talks about another specific area of this course that helped her learn what it means to lead a church. “Finally the importance of small groups to the growth of the church, hospitality in these groups, training new leaders, the difference between an assistant and an apprentice gave me new insight into this walk. I am very grateful to this course.”
Getting Started: The Path to Lead a Church Well
After submitting an application to Christian Leaders Institute, Angela was enrolled in the class Getting Started: Christian Basics Certificate. This class introduced her to the CLI Bible school model, but it also gave her an opportunity to introduce herself to the faculty. In this course, students are asked to share a little bit about themselves and their ministry goals. Angela writes this “I want to open a women’s ministry. This will be a forum for women to take on the challenges of life prayerfully, support one another in various ways and reach out to other women who are going through similar situations. CLI will make that happen for me by inculcating in me the knowledge, skills and tools I need to run this ministry that is why I really need this scholarship.” After finishing the Getting Started class, Angela obtained the Christian Basics Certificate and was able to progress to further studies at Christian Leaders Institute.
Bible School Student -Christian Leaders Institute strives to maintain a standard of excellence that rivals accredited seminaries all over the world. The Bible school courses offered at CLI are put together and taught by faculty who have obtained degrees from seminaries, and many have masters and doctorates in their fields. Many Bible school classes at CLI ask students to reflect on the course and what they learned from it. Constantine Mapfumo offers his reflection on Sermon Construction and Presentation.
Constantine begins by saying, “I really thank God so much for according me this opportunity of being part of this very important preaching class at Christian Leaders Institute. To me it was a great blessing to learn about sermon construction and how to present a sermon.” He further says “This preaching class has taught me what to do in scripture selection. I do not have to just pick up a scripture, but with the help of the source, the Holy Spirit, I have to consider the audience in my mind and the place of my presentation, and also the material I need to present.” Further along, he adds that “Sermon introduction was once a problem to me and I have found it one of the failing points of many lay preachers. It is very true that the introduction of a sermon will determine the attention of your listeners. If the introduction is poor you have to work hard to awaken them with the points of your sermon.” Constantine demonstrates throughout his paper that this Bible school course was a great resource for him in his sermon. He ends by saying “I give glory to God for all the people. He has deposited in them the experiences that I have learned from as He prepares me to be an effective sermon constructor and good sermon presenter.”
Bible School Certificates at Christian Leaders Institute
At CLI, each student must go through the course Getting Started: Christian Basics Certificate before they can continue on to other courses, such as Sermon Construction and Presentation. In this course, they are introduced to the Bible school model at Christian Leaders Institute and they are also asked to introduce their ministry goals and reasons for coming to CLI to the faculty. Constantine describes his ministry goals this way: “My ministry dream is to evangelize and plant churches. I want to be a strong leader able to teach others who will reproduce to the next generations. It is my desire to Christian Leadership Institute being established in Zimbabwe.” At Christian Leaders Institute, our ministry vision is to help people like Constantine carry out his ministry vision by providing them the proper training. We pray that through Christian Leaders Institute God will prepare leaders for a great revival throughout the world.
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A common theme echoed throughout the Bible is a call to revival. Almost all of the prophets’ messages called for some form of revival to occur among the people. At Christian Leaders Institute, we believe that spiritual revival is still central to the growth and prosperity of the church. It is our sincere prayer that men and women trained at Christian Leaders Institute will spring up to become leaders in a new revival.
In the bible school class Missions and Revivals, our students learn about revivals that occurred in the past. A final paper in the Missions and Revivals course requires students to reflect on what they learned in the course and lists steps that they can take to be instruments of revival in their home countries. One student, Clifford Kamwanza of Zimbabwe, writes, “During this course I understand the power of prayer, during my studies I understood that prayer is a powerful tool that can change things. I found out that the missionaries and revivalists relied on prayer for their success.” In the second part of his paper where he describes steps he can take, Clifford lists the organization of prayer meetings first. This illustrates the depth of the understanding of prayer and its power that Clifford gained in this Bible school course.
Bible School Certificates Offered at Christian Leaders Institute
Clifford Kamwanza began where every other CLI student begins: with the Getting Started: Christian Basics Certificate course. This introduces students to the CLI Bible school model and asks them to introduce themselves to the CLI faculty. In his final assignment in the Getting Started course, Clifford writes “I am Called in Missionary and Evangelism currently I chair the Ministry in my church. I would like to be more effective in the ministry. My dreams are to travel around the globe with missionary work and Evangelizing.” His main ministry goal is to devote his entire life to carrying out the great commission, and at Christian Leaders Institute he is gaining knowledge and understanding. Clifford Kamwanza is receiving instruction at this Bible school that could help him grow into a leader in the next great revival.
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