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 How To Get To
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 Abbreviations,
 Copyrights,
 Resources

Extraordinary empowering by God:

--- If you want to be extraordinarily empowered by God as you do ministry, then see the information on how to acquire that empowering from God, which is contained within the document "Session 10 - Mandates Relating To 'Godliness' And 'Empowering' ", on the web page "Home Page - Ministry".
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Request for prayer

--- Please pray that the Gospel presentation document "How To Get To Heaven" in various languages on this website would be readily accessed, effectively understood, and instrumentally used by the Lord to bring countless numbers of people around the world to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
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An important coming reality:

--- Upon the start of the Great Tribulation, believers can lose their salvation.  For details, see the document "End Times Speculations", which is located at the top of the 'Doctrines' web-page.
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? Did you know that:
- - God has assigned all true believers to be functioning as "priests", doing ministry work in a church or ministry.
(For more information, see the document "1 Peter 2:5 - Assigned To Be Ministering In A Priestly Fraternity" in the '1 Peter' Sermon or Lesson Outlines web-page.)

On this web site, www.BelieverAssist.com, is offered for free all of its downloadable online Christian resources and materials, which are helpful to assist believers in doing ministry, for example such as downloadable printable expository sermon preaching outlines with included Bible study lesson questions and notes in 4 file formats (.htm, .rtf, .doc, .pdf) that can be easily browsed, copied, edited (in .rtf and .doc), or projected for preaching a sermon or for teaching a Bible study, home group, or Sunday School class of adults or teenagers.  These sermon-or-lesson outlines are intentionally designed: to expose the meaning and implications of each verse, its phrases, and its key words; to drive home a particular 'big idea' main point; and to provide plentiful corresponding applications for the lives of the people in the audience.  They include lesson questions that are designed to facilitate group thinking, discussion, investigation, analyses, discovery, and learning.

Bible college courses, seminary courses, churches, and ministries can use:
- - the 'sermon or lesson' documents as examples in training of expository sermons, Bible lessons, and evangelistic (gospel) presentations;
- - the 'elder training series' documents in training of how to be an elder, pastor, or ministry leader in a church or ministry, and how to create expository messages;
- - the 'doctrines' documents in training of various Bible doctrines, theology subjects, end-times events topics, and etcetera;
- - the 'Biblical counseling' documents in training of how to do Biblical counseling as a lay counselor;
- - the E-book, "Children of Fire", in training of parents of 'How to Effect Positive Lasting Change in [Their] Troubled Youth'; 
- - the (doctorate) Research Thesis: "Treatment For Dissociation", in presenting an effective biblical counseling-based treatment approach for the psychological condition known as 'dissociation' (split personality);
- - other helpful documents of information for achieving spiritual healing, growth, and mental health.

Note: My current endeavor is to add more free downloadable expository documents in Portuguese in training, assisting, and equipping believers and ministry leaders in doing ministry.  Thank you for your patience.  May you find these resources helpful and a blessing.

Dr. Mel W. Coddington, Ph.D., M.A.B.C.
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Ministry resource documents:

To download a document, place your cursor over the format type (.htm, .rtf, .doc, or .pdf) for the document you want, then right mouse click to cause a pop-up menu to appear, then in that menu select "Save Target As..." to copy the document file onto your computer in a directory you designate.

For a List Of Abbreviations used within these documents, click here (to access the list on the "Abbreviations & Copyrights" page).

Elder Training Series (complete) :
(contains important and useful training for anyone who leads a ministry)

How To Preach Or Teach A Message That Is Expository:
- - In the "Elder Training Series" above, see the documents "Sessions 23-26".

Small Groups:

Teaching:

Pastoral Ministry:

Counseling used with Leadership:

Physical Environments:

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Ministry Tips:

- - Evangelism:  From my experience, one of the most resistant and difficult places to do evangelism is in the church, but indeed the most fruitful place to do evangelism is in the church.
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Current Events:

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Concepts to ponder:

- - Essentially, life is one big test for every person, orchestrated by God.

- - The Bible teaches that some psychological and medical conditions can have a spiritual component and a spiritual source (see "Psychological Conditions" on the Counseling page). 
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Practical Ministry:

Sometimes, doing ministry involves encountering situations that require challenging improvising in using the resources God has given you:


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Philosophy:

A main goal of this website is to cultivate, develop, train, and equip leaders to do the work of ministry, and to possess and exhibit the qualities of gentle persuasion, patient endurance, servant leadership, Kingdom perspective, shepherding the flock, feeding the Word, spiritual maturity, and ministry oriented.

Another main goal and focus for BelieverAssist.com is to nurture God's people so that they excel at becoming fruit-bearing disciples, who then proceed to excel at making other fruit-bearing disciples, growing the local church, and serving in its ministries.
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     Topics of Interest:

- - The " Elder Training Series " is located near the top of the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page and contains important and useful training for anyone who leads a ministry.

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- - The 'Ministry Tips' documents are located near the bottom of the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page.

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- - The 'Pursue Wisdom' sermon or lesson series is located near the middle of the "Topical" web-page.

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- - The 'counseling for ministry mistreatment' document, entitled "Recovering From Ministerial Abuse, Assault, Murder", is located near the top of the "Counseling" web-page.