International Bible Trainings
“Be diligent to present yourself to God as a worker who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.”
2 Timothy 2:15
Dr. David Wold conducts international trainings as a teacher of teachers and pastor of pastors. This well-studied man of God has all the credentials for such titles. He received Christ at nine years old and immediately began studying the Word and sharing his faith. As a junior in high school, he led his first of many Bible studies. In Bible college, David volunteered to preach in hospitals and nursing homes, discipled friends, and yes, led Bibles studies.
Over the years, David went on several mission trips and became more involved with ministry in Eastern Europe. He even helped start the first Bible institute Albania had in fifty years. When the uprising of 1997 temporarily shut the institute down, David returned to the US. It is there that he began pastoring the church he still leads today. Missions never went neglected, however. As a missionary under Serving Workers for the Harvest, David uses his yearly three months of unpaid leave to train pastors and teachers around the world.
The Demand
The need for David’s global ministry is great as intelligent people are leading without adequate knowledge of the Bible. Unfortunately, there is no comparison between the amount of access America has to Biblical training to that of the rest of the world. Whether by persecution, a lack of Bible institutes, or a combination of both, proper education is scarce for these willing disciples of Jesus.
In one of the trainings, for example, the hosts asked David to remove his shoes before giving the lesson. Even with a prosthetic leg, David could not convince the hosts to make an exception. David reluctantly obliged, finished the lesson shoeless, and inquired about the strange demand. “Moses was told to take his shoes off when approaching the burning bush”, the leaders replied plainly. David took into account these specific instructions taken out of context. He responded, “How many of you are going to start building an ark?”.
As for the details, David’s full teaching contains 20 lessons on eschatology and specific chapters of the Bible. David states he mostly just teaches people how to think and that the key is asking the right questions. When reading over specific passages, for example, he instructs the trainees to answer “Who?”, “What?”, “Where?”, “When?”, “How?”, and “What difference does it make?”.
The Response
In response to these trainings, leaders are enthusiastically taking on the challenge to do something great. Before attending David’s lessons, one pastor’s ministry included only a tiny assembly in a dirt building, for instance. Today, this ministry oversees numerous churches, a school of 500, and an orphanage with 20 kids. Through ministers like Dr. David Wold, leaders are gaining the skills to carry out their God-given assignments with boldness and accuracy.
In closing, David invites readers to get involved in world missions according to the Great Commission and to remember the only thing we get to bring with us into eternity is souls. David also presents the contrast between the prayer of Jabez and Paul’s prayer in the New Testament (below). The first is a request to be kept from pain while the second is an expression of gratitude for the pain. In the spirit of asking the right question, consider choosing either “What can God do for me?” or, “What can God do through me?”.
“Concerning this [thorn in the flesh] I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.’ Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.”
2 Corinthians 12:8-9
Prayer Requests
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