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Life Principles Training

We provide discipleship and leadership training for ministry leaders worldwide. Our goal is to encourage, equip, and edify local teachers to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ.

Life Principles Training

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Life Principles Training

Training People to Lead Their Communities

At our Life Principles Training, participants, many of whom have had no solid formal training, learn to walk with Jesus and listen to God—the strategy that allowed Christ’s original disciples to reach the world.

This has proven to be both powerful and effective for the congregations and communities where these ministry leaders serve.

We also pray together for the Lord to raise up local teachers who are willing to join us and train their fellow pastors—multiplying the effects of our efforts. We thank God that the multiplication implications He has already shown us are immense and beyond imagination.

Ministry Goals

  1. We pray every ministry leader completes the training equipped to:
    • Use the principles to strengthen your personal walk with the Lord.
    • Use the principles as a resource for the ministry God has called them to.
    • Develop an inward goal of personal spiritual growth.
    • Develop an outward goal to share them with others.
  2. We pray every ministry leader can distinguish the difference between Principles and Preferences:
    • Principle: A fixed or predetermined mode of conduct or a moral rule based on the Word of God.
    • Preference: A choice based on likes and dislikes or whatever seems best in the moment.

Life Principles Foundation

The 30 Life Principles were developed over 50 years of ministry by Dr. Charles Stanley from the Word of God. They work individually and collectively to bridge life’s issues back to God Himself. As Dr. Stanley says, “It is the Word of God and the work of God that changes people’s lives.”

Learn About The 30 Life Principles

Training Overview

Introduction
Ministry Goals
Training to Train
Session 1Intimacy with God
This is the most important principle for ministry leaders. God’s ministry flows from our intimate relationship with Him.
Anchor Principle: Number 1—“Our intimacy with God, His highest priority for our lives, determines the impact of our lives.”
Session 2Prayer
Prayer is the main way we strengthen and deepen our intimate relationship with God.
Anchor Principle: Number 13—“Listening to God is essential to walking with God.”
Session 3Trust and Obedience
Trust and obedience work hand in hand as we exercise what God leads us to do in our relationship with Him.
Anchor Principle: Number 2—“Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.”
Session 4Divine Provision
God's strength is greater than our own and it is necessary for us to embrace it if our desire is to follow Him in obedience.
Anchor Principle: Number 24—“To live the Christian life is to allow Jesus to live His life in and through us.”
Session 5God's Work
How does God carry out His purposes in the world? We need to understand His ways if desire to join Him in that work.
Anchor Principle: Number 28—“No Christian has ever been called to “go it alone” in his or her walk of faith.”
Session 6Adversity
Everyone faces adversity, but our response to adversity can either deepen our relationship with God or hinder it.
Anchor Principle: Number 26—“Adversity is a bridge to a deeper relationship with God.”
In Touch Messenger

What Participants Receive

  • Life Principle 2 or 3-Day Training
  • Life Principle Training Notebook
  • Dr. Stanley’s Sermons, Ebooks and Other Resources
  • In Touch Messenger
  • The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible *
*Where available

Connecting to the Great Commission

Just like the 30 Life Principles should be considered individually and collectively, these six sessions should be considered individually and collectively as well. They are designed to help someone connect with the Word of God from different angles based on life's issues. The outcome of all this is to equip the Body of Christ to carry out the Great Commission—leading people worldwide into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.

Supporting You in Your Leadership Role

We are here to help you!

Encourage

We’ll walk with you, showing you God's love and reminding you of all that's possible as He works through you.

Edify

We’ll teach you about the Word of God and the ways of God in a practical way that can be applied directly to your ministry.

Equip

We’ll help prepare you for ministry by providing training and resources you can take with you to study, copy, and share.

Why Get Involved?

You have shown yourself to be

Faithful

1 Samuel 2:35

But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and My soul; and I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed always.

Obedient

Romans 6:17

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were entrusted.

Eager

Psalm 5:3

In the morning, Lord, You will hear my voice; in the morning I will present my prayer to You and be on the watch.

Willing

Isaiah 6:8

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

Available

1 Thessalonians 5:24

Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will do it.

Spirit-Filled

Philippians 2:1

Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.