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About the Institute
In this modular program, a diverse qualified faculty presents the basis of a biblically balanced worldview and its application to the ministry of biblical discipleship/counseling in a sequence of week-long courses.
Mission Statement:
To serve the Church of Jesus Christ by helping it accomplish its goals of maturing believers (Eph. 4:11-13) and discipling the nations (Matt. 28:18-20) through providing training and resources in discipleship/counseling rooted in a biblical worldview.
 VISION…
Deeper Walk International (DWI) exists to serve the Church through equipping those God has called to a discipleship/counseling ministry with the knowledge and skills needed to help others who long to experience joy and victory in their union with Jesus Christ. Biblical counseling is part of Christ's ministry of reconciliation, wherein mature believers share with others the love, truth, and life that they first received from Him and that He is making incarnate in them. Biblical counseling is seen as an element of relational discipleship and disciple-making, of helping the counselee grow into a vital healing relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ who is "the Wonderful Counselor."
Believers always bring some emotional and spiritual baggage with them when they enter a saving relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Their salvation experience is very real, but wrong beliefs, traumatic events, the absence of healthy relationships and bonding, and such things do not often change automatically. Spiritual baggage may include distorted beliefs about God, failure to receive and believe the Christian's God-given identity, and failure to deal with the iniquity of generational sin and resultant bondage. The denial or minimizing of personal sin, walking "in the flesh" rather than walking "in the Spirit," failure to walk in the freedom of forgiveness, and believing lies rather than bringing every thought captive to Christ can lead to the accumulation of further spiritual problems. Satan uses such things to keep the believer from growing toward maturity as well as they could if these issues were dealt with in the discipling process. Persons preparing for ministry especially need this kind of training to prepare them to help other people deal practically with these personal issues from a biblical point of view.
 The primary goal of discipleship/counseling should be the development of one's relationships with God, with oneself, and with others. The usual emphasis on learning right doctrine, spiritual disciplines, and methods of ministry are not sufficient goals in themselves because they do not deal with one's personal "baggage." They should be seen as means to the basic goal of resolving personal issues and of building healthy relationships.
One's worldview is basic to one's belief system and is observable sooner or later in priorities, moral choices, and lifestyle decisions. For this reason, all Deeper Walk Institute classes are taught from a biblical worldview. This worldview will always include spiritual warfare - spiritual battle in which all believers are involved whether they realize it or not. Even as born-again believers, we live and minister between two kingdoms in conflict. Without the spiritual warfare component of a biblical worldview, the events of life will not be properly understood, the Scriptures will not be correctly interpreted, and biblical truth will not be fully appropriated. The world, the flesh, and the devil are always interacting with us, resulting in either victory or defeat for the child of God. Learning the relationships between these three enemies and the believer and appropriating the truth of God in one's daily walk are keys to successful growth, fruitfulness, and joy in the Christian life.
The course instructors are committed to equipping
disciplers/counselors to help people come to a place of freedom
from the bondages of the past and to enjoy a relationship with
the Lord Jesus Christ that will enable God to work through them
in accomplishing the Great Commission in our world.
The Deeper Walk Institute is structured to provide a biblically
balanced foundation for those whom God leads into this type of
ministry, and testimonies from former students indicate that
this purpose is being achieved.
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