New Testament Leadership Certificate

This course is designed for the pastor or businessperson who wishes to enhance their leadership skills in light of God’s principles. It will give you the tools to reach your goals, build a strong church, reach your community and build an effective leadership team.

Why is this is important? Studies reveal that great preachers don’t build great churches. Great leaders build great churches! As few as 12% of pastors feel they have good leadership skills. They woefully wish that churches could be built from the pulpit, but they are not!

This year thousands of churches will close their doors. Tens of thousands more will succumb to a lost vision. That’s right, most churches in America realize they are not doing what they set out to do. And even more distressing, they realize they never will.

BUT YOU CAN FULFILL YOUR VISION!

Impact International School of Ministry has a thorough, effective leadership training program that will fully equip you to live your dreams.

Listen to what you get:

  • Learn the secrets of building teams that flow smoothly and accomplish your goals
  • Discover how to attract the right people to your teams
  • Find the resources that you need to finance your projects
  • Learn the latest church growth tips that are really working
  • Address the current needs of your community
  • Cut counseling down to a minimum
  • Reduce conflict as you develop new people skills
  • Get the tools you really need to build and lead a successful, growing organization

All this and more! Read the course descriptions below and you will immediately recognize the value of each of these courses.

Course Requirements:

  • Numeric Score of 86 or above in all courses listed below</li>
  • 20 page paper on Principles of New Testament Leadership

To register:

Call 256-536-9402 or email Impact International School of Ministry (IISOM).

Don’t lose another day. Don’t let your dream slip away into the depths of despair.
Equip yourself fully! You will have a new confidence.
You will finally have the tools that really work.

Course Descriptions:

PASTORAL EPISTLES: This course shows how Paul mentored Timothy to develop him into a man of character and faith. This verse-by-verse study of I and II Timothy and Titus is supplemented with selected pastoral instruction from other New Testament epistles. Learn the principles that Paul used to select and develop leaders. This class will help you avoid some of the most common pitfalls in developing yourself as a leader.

KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL LIVING: This is an in-depth study into God’s plan for man’s success through the operation and application of New Testament principles of faith and grace. This course embodies some of the most world renowned, Bible-based principles of success. Through this course you will de-mystify the faith walk of the believer. You will have the keys for success and the confidence to use them.

COUNSELING I: (DISC Profile required) This course is the basis from which all our counseling programs will be understood. This is a comprehensive introduction into motivational behavior. The number one reason for failure in business and ministry is a lack of people skills. This class provides an academic and experiential look into basic behavioral patterns. The model for this study, based on the theory and application of the DISC behavioral profile developed by Dr. John Geir of the University of Minnesota, will provide a foundation for understanding yourself and others. This is key for basic communication, negotiation, counseling and walking in love. You will understand yourself and others better than you ever believed possible.

COUNSELING II: This course provides an introduction into the fundamentals of psychology and counseling with special attention devoted to the nine modalities of counseling. The strengths and weaknesses of these approaches will be openly discussed. Special emphasis will be given on using this information in light of biblical principles. From this class the student will begin to form his basic approach to counseling techniques.

COUNSELING III: This is an in-depth look at human behavior and motivational beliefs. This advanced study focuses on the role of beliefs and their effect on subsequent behavior. Special emphasis is placed on various methodologies which are able to influence the deep-seated beliefs of the heart. You will learn how to establishing new behavior that emerges from heartfelt beliefs. You will acquire the tools to change any behavior through modifying beliefs.

ADMINISTRATION I: this course provides an objective and experiential look at the basic elements of administration. Through personal assessment and unique assignments you will learn the first step to corporate administration: taking control of your own life. You will learn the spiritual and practical elements that are essential to success as you are enabled to identify and avoid the most common failures in both ministry and business. You will be able to develop the skills and acquire the tools for personal and corporate time-management.

ADMINISTRATION II TEAM BUILDING: involves each student in the process of identifying and understanding the necessary personnel essential for building an innovative team. This is an advanced people-skills course implementing that which is essential to developing successful leadership. This course will show how to take an idea from conception to completion and how to build the team that can make it happen. You will learn at what stages a project should be handed off to each team member and to which member it should go next.

ADMINISTRATION III: This course provides the tools for establishing and leading a dream team. There will be lectures by the heads of principal departments of Impact of Huntsville and/or other successful ministries. They will give unique insight to problems and solutions of everyday departmental issues they face. This is practical information essential for starting and managing a successful church or ministry. You will discover how to develop synergy and congruence in every department, thereby optimizing your every effort. This is an advanced study in team building.

DYNAMICS OF SMALL GROUPS: This course looks at the need for small group ministry. All people need personal support groups of some kind. Having overlooked this need, the church has left people without the essential support for victorious living and personal development. The result has been an over emphasis on professional ministers meeting needs that should be met through healthy communication and supportive relations. This is a study in the dynamics of small group ministry and facilitating. Special attention is given to the development of a new believer and the activation of the laity to service. Additional emphasis is placed on the small group as a place of processing and personalizing the message to which it is exposed.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE & DETOX: A study in the dynamics of detox treatment utilizing methodology that is holistic in nature and more consistent with the biblical model of man as a spirit, soul and body. Special emphasis is placed on the connection between emotions and physiological functions of the body, especially the progression of negative emotions that accompany substance abuse. This class will prepare you to minister to one of the most crucial needs in our society. This class, along with clinical training, will qualify you for national certification as a Detox Specialist.

ADDICTIONS COUNSELING: A course of study designed to provide a general introduction to Substance Abuse Counseling. This course introduces the student to the 12 core functions, 12-Step Program, pharmacology, ethics, rules and regulations, referrals and theory and dynamics of counseling. This course not only prepares the student for certification as an Addictions Counselor, but equips him/her to deal with the real issues of life which have traditionally been avoided or mishandled by mainstream Christian counselors.

CHURCH GROWTH: This course gives a practical look into the principles and methods essential for reaching your community. We are called to reach the world. Many have been told to “just preach the Word and people will come,” but, it is not that simple. Even Jesus planned, organized, trained and sent out pre-crusade teams. If we are to reach the world, we must know how to reach them and keep them. We must understand their needs. We must speak their language. Even Jesus applied these simple principles. This class will review the New Testament principles of church growth as presented in the book of Acts. It will also examine the current trends of church growth including the advantages of multi-sensory imaging. Special attention will be given to involving lay ministry and proper functioning of the house-to-house meeting.