To train the body of Christ to more effectively help the spiritually unfulfilled, underachieving, emotionally and psychologically hurting people in our churches and in our society.

The Faith Therapy Curriculum was developed over a period of years based on a new methodology developed at Word of Life Institute but expanded to cover all of the most important topics commonly encountered in the church counseling and life coaching environment.   Currently the unique portion of this curriculum consists of four books and 16 video courses.  It provides both self-help resources for individuals and college curriculum for effectively training Christian counselors and Bible-based life coaches. 

      Over the years and with quit a number of graduates, not only has this curriculum proven to be very easy to teach and implement in churches, but it has proven to be an extremely effective and an appropriate means of evangelism in this culture and for missions in other cultures.  All of our methodology directly includes evangelism since without salvation by faith the best that counseling can do is make more effective participants for the rat race of life and does nothing to prepare them for eternity.   

         Faith Therapy is unique in that it is based solely on the process of biblical salvation by faith.  After determining the root problem and helping the client to realize that he cannot resolve it without God, the most fundamental step in the healing process is leading the client to accept Christ as his Lord and Savior.  Once Christ has been accepted, the Holy Spirit orchestrates the process of salvation or wholeness.  The Christian counselor’s job is to help the client remove any roadblocks to this process and assist him to grow in Christian maturity once the roadblocks are removed.  In addition to bringing relief to the presenting problem, faith therapy views all problems as symptoms of deeper life issues, which are rooted in a lack of faith in God to meet the client’s most basic needs.  Bible principles and models are used for the overall direction of therapy to overcome the original presenting problem.

       Because of the need for and demand for Bible-based counseling throughout the world, Word of Life Institute has reached out to meet these needs through this website, seminars, a developing country scholarship and an active program to begin counseling training centers where the demand is greatest.  At this time this outreach is primarily to English speaking, Christian nations where our books and videos can be most effectively used.   We now have our drug and alcohol videos translated into Slovak, Swahili and Arabic.