Summer College Training

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“But flee youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” –2 Timothy 2:22

The goal of the Summer College Training is to perfect God-loving and Christ-pursuing college students in the areas of biblical truth, experience of life, gospel preaching, and character development, all with a view to molding them into useful vessels in the Lord’s hands for the building up of His Body.

The training provides a sanctified atmosphere in which young people receive spiritual infusion through ministry messages, group fellowship, and individual study. All teachings in the training are based upon the ministry of the Lord’s recovery. Corporate and personal prayers and various life practices are strongly emphasized. In addition, trainees also have the opportunity to blend with their peers from across the nation and some foreign countries. This seven-day training will render untold benefit to a college student whose heart seeks first the kingdom of God!

SUBJECT

The Christian life is a quest to know Christ. In the case of the apostle Paul, his Christian life began with this question, “Who are You, Lord?” (Acts 9:5). Years later, even as a mature and experienced believer in Christ, Paul’s steadfast desire was “to know Him” (Phil. 3:10). He counted all other things to be loss on account of the supreme preciousness of Christ and was willing to pay any price “that I may gain Christ” (Phil. 3:8). How much have you gained of Christ? This is a crucial question. Our college years can be dedicated to the pursuit of many things—academics, interests, politics, careers, social relationships—the list is unending. But the most meaningful human pursuit is the pursuit of a Christian to gain Christ. All other pursuits, no matter how noble, are mere earthly pursuits.  God has called us with a heavenly calling to take possession of and gain Christ (Phil. 3:14). While our friends and peers seek after many things in this world, the Christian life is focused on only “one thing: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before” (Phil. 3:13).

For those of you in whom there is a stirring desire to pursue Christ and know Him in an experiential way, we invite you to attend the 2008 Summer College Training. This training is a sanctified environment where you will gather with hundreds of like-minded college students from across the country for an intensive week-long pursuit of the riches of Christ. The “excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus” (Phil. 3:8) will be released in a series of rich ministry messages, to be complemented and absorbed by your personal times of study in the Word and small group fellowship sessions. Christ is unsearchably rich and there is a vast territory of His riches to be possessed! May we all have the attitude of the apostle, and realize that we have not yet obtained and have not yet been perfected, but that each of us must continue to pursue… “that I may gain Christ” (Phil. 3:8).