1. Individual spiritual growth
The simplest use of these books, cassettes and videos is for your own personal spiritual growth. Benefits include the fact that you are continuing to grow throughout your lifetime. You are selecting books in areas which God is asking you to grow in at each specific point in your life, and the materials are quite inexpensive. Since they have lamad application sections throughout, you will be internalizing the materials on a heart and spirit level, rather than just educating your mind.
You can share these materials with your friends by requesting that a copy of this catalog be sent to them free of charge. You could also start a home group where you and your friends use these life-changing materials to grow together in areas of mutual interest.
2. Curriculum for a small group meeting
Using these lamad-oriented training tools in a home group, Sunday school class or evening service will bring a spark of life because of the interactive discussion-oriented manner in which the materials are designed. As you discuss the assigned "Application Questions" found in each chapter, group meetings become a sharing of revelations. Participants express what they have learned from their reading and personal applications during the previous week, allowing encouragement and feedback from the group and its shepherd.
Answering these questions together in a group setting will cause participants to share how they are applying these lessons in their individual lives, and what God is speaking to them about the truths they are learning. By requiring each group member to do some homework, which includes asking the Lord to apply the truths being examined to their lives, your group sharing comes alive with the life of the Holy Spirit. No more boring lectures. No more sharing of ignorance where people respond without having first reflected deeply. Now you have a sharing of revelations and of Holy Spirit applications to group members lives.
The fact that each group member purchases a book and does some biblical meditation during the week deepens the learning experience of each individual. As a teacher, when I prepare for a class I know that I am learning much more than the students. By requiring every group member to read and apply a chapter each week, everyone in the group prepares and learns, not just the teacher.
We all receive from a learning experience exactly what we put into it. Dont shortchange yourself. Require everyone in your gathering to complete weekly assignments in lamad-styled textbooks so that your entire group experiences profound spiritual growth.
Some participants in the small group may simply work their way through the primary text. Others may want college credit and request a Christian Leadership University course syllabus. By completing the assignments required in the course syllabus, submitting this work for grading and paying the appropriate tuition, they become eligible to earn college credit.
Your church can grow through cell multiplication. These materials come with teachers guides and often with Spirit-anointed videos. Once group members have completed the materials themselves, they can start a cell group, teaching what they have learned. This deepens their own learning experience while imparting these life-changing truths to others. These materials are full of the life of God and easily passed from one spiritual generation to the next.
See detailed instructions for creating a Lamad Encounter Group at www.cwgministries.org/LEGs.
3. Church-centered Bible school curriculum
Many churches are hungering for a down-to-earth, practical, Spirit-anointed discipleship training program which they can use to instruct their own people. We have it. Churches can utilize the curriculum of Communion With God Ministries and Christian Leadership University to train their own people. See "Category 12 - How to Start a Church-centered Bible School!" for more information concerning the content of the program available. You may obtain an Operations Manual which guides you in getting started offering college-level courses which can be applied toward accredited degrees within a church-centered Bible school. Order it today!
Pastors, when you take your leaders with you as you minister, letting them watch you counsel, preach, prepare, pray, heal the sick and cast out demons, and combine this lifestyle training with a Spirit-anointed curriculum, you will quickly raise up leaders in the same manner as Jesus did when He discipled the Twelve. Make it your purpose to do this with twelve members of your congregation, and watch your church explode as these twelve turn and do the same with twelve they are training and so on. This curriculum is easily transferable, and when you couple it with the real hands-on learning of watching and helping you minister in the power of the Holy Spirit, you will be participating in fulfilling the great commission of discipling all nations.
4. External Degree Program through Christian Leadership University
Christian Leadership University was birthed by Communion With God Ministries. CLU utilizes all the books and courses of Communion With God Ministries into college-level courses which build toward accredited Associate, Bachelor and Master degrees. These courses may all be taken from your home, in your cell group, or through a church-centered Bible school.
Credits can also be earned from life experience by completing a Life Experience Portfolio, which can be ordered from CLU.
Financial aid scholarships, academic scholarships, and matching tuition grants placed into a growth fund for the student are available to CLU students. Inquire for more details.
CLUs entire college catalog can be viewed on-line at our website www.cluonline.com or ordered free of charge from Communion With God Ministries.
This entire college level program with all its curriculum is available to churches to use in setting up church-centered Bible schools. An Operations Manual may be ordered from Communion With God Ministries which explains in detail how this is done.
5. On-site seminary training with Mark Virkler
Some students want or need to be in a focused learning situation for a period of their lives. This option is also available. Mark Virkler offers many of his courses to these resident students. Several three-month quarters are available, as are weekend, one-week and one-month time periods. Contact CWG for an upcoming schedule of on-site course offerings.
