Word of Life Christian Counseling Training Institute

Mission

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.

Faith Therapy

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  

 

The Origin of Faith Therapy.

         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.

World Outreach

       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.

A Video Introduction to Word of Life Institute

How to receive the Gift of Eternal Life and be Saved.

This is Christo Rendedor in Argentina
Jesus Christ the Redeemer

More important than anything else is the issue of ETERNAL LIFE. Everyone will live eternally, the question is where. Heaven is real, Hell is real. All the pleasures of this life--a short season--cannot compare with living forever in Hell. The Bible promises eternal life in Heaven to anyone who finds and follows Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Jesus died on the cross and paid the penalty for our sins so that we can have a personal relationship with God.  If you choose to follow Christ, eternal life in Heaven becomes yours as a free gift. You cannot earn it, it is a gift. It is yours to receive or reject.  

Will you accept God's free gift to cleanse you of all your sins and allow the Holy Spirit to come in and transform your life?  Here are some Bible verses to consider.

 

Romans 3:23 All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

 

Romans 6:23 The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

Romans 10:9 If you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

 

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

 

We receive Christ as an act of will to rely Him for your salvation.  Pray this prayer right now, and Christ will come into your life, just as He promised.

 

"Dear Jesus, I believe that you are the Son of God. I believe that you came to this earth as a man, lived a perfect life on this earth, died as a sacrifice for my sins, rose from the dead and you are now alive in Heaven. I confess that I am a sinner, have tried to direct my own life, and have failed You in many ways. There is nothing I could ever do by my own efforts to be good enough to be accepted by You.  I repent of my sins. I accept you now as my Lord and Savior.  With your help I will now forsake my old life and ask you to live Your life in and through me, come into my heart, change me and heal my life, and make me a new creation. I thank you Lord for your free gift of eternal life and your unmerited favor and love. Amen"

 

If you made a decision to accept Jesus Christ into your life, or if you need prayer or guidance, please e-mail us and let us know. We are here to help you. 

 

It is important that you read the Bible every day, pray to God often and find a good Christ-centered Church that will teach you how to live the Christian life.