Education

Abundant Life offers training & education id offered through two sources.  Chaplain, minister, and lay training/education are available through Trinity Theological Seminary & Joint Commission on Chaplain Training.  Courses taken from the Chaplain Program are transferable to Trinity Seminary.

So, what is religious education? It is an attempt to understand the past, and preparation for the future.  The religious education is preparing you to live a life that represents your true purpose and will.  It’s also a calling from God.  Education & Training prepares us to fulfil a call that God has asked us to do.

Religious education as it truly exists represents The Way of Knowledge. This is where you enter into the Mystery and allow a Greater Mind to emerge within you. This is where you put yourself in a position to receive so that you can learn something that you did not know before, experience something you could not experience before and see something you could not see before.

With Religious education, you can advance up the mountain and gain a greater vantage point in life, a greater view and a greater honesty. As you proceed, what is necessary will serve you. What is unnecessary will burden you and will have to be left aside. Then your steps will become quicker, and your burden will become lighter. And your need to associate with life that exists in the lowlands will become less and less of an encumbrance for you. This is gaining a very practical freedom, a freedom that can only be gained through an education of this nature.

Religious education takes you into a new kind of experience—an experience of recognition and an experience of knowing things. Much of this will have nothing to do with you personally. It enables you to learn information that is useful to your purpose.

Religious education restores what is essential to your life. It gives you something that the world cannot give you because its source is God. The world can teach you the ways of the world. It can teach you how to survive in the world and how to prosper in the world to a certain degree. However, it cannot teach you your greater nature or purpose. It cannot teach you where you have come from and where you are going. Therefore, the more worldly a religious education becomes, the less it is able to address these greater and far more important questions. If you do not have a real sense of why you are here, then you are lost to yourself. Your only remedy, then, is to find a way to regain, to reclaim and to express this greater purpose. Here everyone is lost until they are found. And the only way they are found is to find the way that a greater purpose can be experienced directly and honestly.   That greater purpose is God!

Remember to include God in your study!  He will help give you answers to questions that you may have as you start, continue, and complete your study about God and what He is preparing you to do with your life.