Destiny Conference 2021: Discover Charis Meeting - Day 2, Session 6

[Music] hello everyone we're so excited that you're tuning in to this discover keras meeting you know i have no doubt that since you are tuning in god has placed a desire on the inside of your heart to attend charis bible college so we're just going to talk more about that so i'm delighted to introduce the the founder of karis bible college andrew wommack and then the vice president and also the director of karis bible college colorado carrie pickett so we're just going to talk a little bit and then give you some more information so andrew can you share with us why you started kara's bible college well the lord told me to do it but it's basically was from this scripture in second timothy chapter two where he says in verse two the things which thou hast heard of me among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also and so the lord told me from the very beginning of my ministry that it was to train christians not an evangelistic type of thing but to make disciples and that's what the church hasn't done is make disciples they've been making converts and so this has been a desire of mine and then it was i was over in england uh i think it was june the 22nd of 1993. and the lord just spoke to me and said start a bible college and that was the last thing on my mind but he gave me a unique way of doing it so this this is not only just teaching but it's discipleship it's training we put people on missions trips and do a lot of things so this was just a fulfillment of this command to go and make disciples that's awesome that's awesome and carrie i have a question for you so as director of karis bible college woodland park uh can you tell us a little bit about your history with karis bible college and why you do all the stuff you do for charis bible college yeah well i want to welcome everybody that's watching and um you know one of the things i love i've been a part of i'm actually an alumni now 22 years being an alumni so i graduated in 1999 and i came to bible college when i was young i came right when i turned 18 and i remember knowing and this may be for many of you that are watching this you know that god has called you to do something but you don't have a message and that's really what god told me he says you have a calling but you don't know what to share and i knew i had to get the word equipped within me and so when i came to kerris bible college i think that's what the biggest thing that happened for me is that all of a sudden my understanding of the message of what i could share with other people wasn't about just what i was going to preach to people but all of a sudden it meant something to me now there was a whole other revelation and lifestyle and so then i could apply it knowing i was called to the mission field so when i graduated i actually went over to russia and helped uh be part of a team that launched and started the the russia keras and was over there for 16 years and i'll just say why i love doing what i do and why again we moved back here to america a number of years ago but it's to see people discipled because when they get to know god they know who god's within them then they know how god can live out of them and i think once people understand that they can literally change not only their families and their lives and their future their futures but they can start impacting other people's lives and families and futures and that is the power of discipleship that it can multiply out of you into the world around you and i think that's the most exciting thing that i've seen within karis and kind of the history and why we're doing what we do and we see every year graduation after graduation not just here within woodland park colorado but all of our extension schools in all of our international locations they're walking across the stage you know or walking across the zoom camera and we're seeing lives absolutely transformed and so that's why we do what we do and why we encourage people to take that huge step of faith to see their life changed amen that's amazing which is a fulfillment of why you started it absolutely that's awesome and you know i'm the older i get i'm 72 now and the older i get i've got to start thinking about i've got to train up other people because i've got an expiration date so i think that uh this phase in my life it's all about seeing other people uh do the ministry instead of just me and so i love charis we're seeing lives changing so why charis bible college well i'm so glad you are watching because i cannot wait to tell you about it so first of all charis bible college will radically change your life you guys i am a testimony to the goodness of god my life was changed through charis bible college that is the heart behind charis bible college is not only that you know uh what you believe but you know why you believe it and then you're able to teach others also that is what karis bible college is all about the bible is the only curriculum we have honestly it's the only book we have we have outlines for the courses and stuff like that but the bible is our only curriculum so why charis well you you're going to get a revelation of god's word you're going to get a revelation of who you are in christ jesus you're going to learn how to walk in god's promises you're going to learn how to hear god's voice and discover and be equipped for your calling you know you have a purpose and a calling that is specifically for you you were made specifically for it do you know what that is if you don't i would encourage you to come to kara's bible college praise god so let's get right into this so in the first year of charis bible college i'm just going to give you a brief rundown okay so you're going to learn about god's love you're going to learn about relationship with god you're also going to learn about the holy spirit your identity grace and faith healing and um and then we have revelation groups and so these revelation groups gives you the opportunity to share what you're learning and it gets you started down that path i say that because that's really helped me be able to share all this stuff i was learning so we do that in first year now second year the main focus is um basically drawing out of you what we've been pouring into you for the first year so what does that look like we're going to cover topics such as how to study the bible how to be spirit-led flowing in the gifts healthy relationships interactive groups and the highlight of second year is missions trips so i you know some people are like oh i don't want to go on a mission strip but i'm here to tell you today it's one of the most amazing things that you will experience in your life it's an organized um god's aware you're going to have to go to a missions trip right go on a missions trip so i'm just here to tell you it's so much a part of your growth and i know a lot of you guys you're contemplating signing up for first year so you're like i don't really even want to think about third year right now but i want you to think about third year because a lot of you guys you know right from the get-go i feel called to be a missionary um i feel called to you know be in business i feel called to media and productions and all this kind of stuff so let me just list for you what we have in third year because it's amazing so in third year we have ministry school that's what i took and listen you guys i i was like ministry school i don't want to be a pastor oh no that is so wrong because ministry shows you every facet and avenue of what ministry is and i'm here to tell you that the majority of ministry is not behind the pulpit yeah that is a major factor but i'm telling you ministry school will radically change your life so that's probably the one i'm going to harp on the most because that's what i went to praise god we have business school we have third year film and production school we have third year worship arts remember these are specialized tracks into the ministry that are going to give you top-notch education based out of god's word on each of these topics a global training school that's basically missions and if you want to become a charis bible college director you would go with that school we have practical government that would probably be my next track if i were to take one and listen you don't have to just pick one you can do more than one praise god or there's a leadership track as well and that's on saturday hybrid only so that kind of covers the first second and third year so you know a lot of you probably are wondering well what is there to do at charis bible college i mean is there stuff to do there well you know for me i like to go to bed early and rise early so i'm less concerned about that but a lot of you guys that are watching maybe you are concerned about it so guess what we have student connect groups which would entail a ton of stuff whether it's rafting ski trips you can go on hiking um it's it's basically to get us all uh to know one another and and whatever niche you find yourself in there are lots of others that that love that thing too right whether it's hiking or it's biking or board games or any of stuff like that we also have lunch and learns which is basically it's a lunch with the instructors you get to ask questions and interact with them and get to know them better with instruct not only instructors but guest speakers as well and we also have nights of worship and it's amazing we do it you know when the weather's nice we do it out at the pavilion otherwise it's inside and it's just a time of fellowship of coming together and worshiping together so that's pretty amazing as far as the student life activities also we have worship on mondays and wednesday mornings the entire year of school and that is a part of your curriculum you guys can you imagine coming to school and spending your whole first hour on monday and wednesday worshiping god in in a setting that is unbelievable i was in worship when i was in bible school and the most amazing part for me being up on stage was hearing everyone singing it it kind of gives you a feeling of what heaven is going to be like i'm telling you worship is very important and you can audition and try out for the worship team so you can be a part of it that's really awesome also another part and a big aspect of karis bible college is the productions department you guys so you can audition to be in the plays that we put on these top-notch plays that we do you can help behind the scenes you can help with costumes with makeup with hair you can do you can be a part of whatever you want to be a part of honestly we also have events i mean we are having more and more events every single year that you get to be a part of you can serve at them you can attend them you get to hear i mean world-renowned ministers come here and share and and you get to hear andrew all the time it is fantastic let me just cover the the different ways that you can do keras bible college you know i i came here to woodland park and i needed this structure i needed people around me to show me what being a christian was like so let me just touch base a little bit about the availability of scheduling in woodland park at our campus here okay day school is going to be monday through friday from 8 a.m until noon that's day school then we have hybrid which would be tuesday wednesday and thursday evening or we have a saturday hybrid where you would just come on two saturdays a month basically um also we lately have come up with a remote start so you can start at home and this is for first year only maybe you're like oh my goodness i want to come to cairo's bible college so bad but i just don't know that i can make it there by the end of this month or by the end of august or by whatever time you think you need to be here um first year only you can start at home and then you can come on campus in january so that's a great option for those uh students that are starting next you guys a lot of people and i talked to a lot of people on the phones you have no idea that there's probably a local charis bible college campus near you and uh for all the people that i talk to a lot of them do not know that so uh we're going to make sure that you can see all the different locations that are around you and i would encourage you if you see any in the state near you you need to reach out you can and and maybe it's not up there long enough for you to see whether or not there is a campus near you so i would encourage you to give us a call and they can go over and tell you where the different campuses are not only here in the united states but internationally i mean kara's bible college is all over the world and so i want you to check that out also if you're like nope sorry i can't come to woodland park i can't come to the main campus oh nope sorry there's no extension locations near me where i live because i live out in the middle of nowhere well you know what we still that is still not a legitimate excuse to not do karis bible college because we have distance education options you guys we have online interactive and it's a mixture of interactive and self-paced we have e charis we this is where we send kara's bible college to you no matter where you are so i would encourage you to check out those options options as well i'm here to tell you there is absolutely no reason why you are not doing karis bible college and i'm here to tell you as well if you have a desire in your heart to do it you're supposed to do harris bible college i'm so excited about it so some of our frequently asked questions okay let me just go over them right quick so first am i too old for charis that's that's funny no you're not too old for garrus listen i when i went to school i knew a man named richard he was 89 when he graduated and he could not wait to fulfill the call of god on his life you guys we serve an amazing god and so no you are not too old to come to karis bible college and then it says how heavy is the workload well you know it's up to you it's up to you on how much time you want to spend in the word of god do you have supplemental readings that you have to do in other books no you don't what you do have is to read through the bible you guys man you're going to get out what you put into karis bible college so the workload is not heavy it isn't like you have a ton of homework in first and second year that is uh third year is another story but but we don't have to worry about third year because we're just focusing on first and second year right now is karis accredited unfortunately right now it is not but here is my challenge to you are you coming to school for an accreditation or are you coming to school for a life change because for me when i came to school you guys know well you don't know but my life was so radically transformed and there is no certificate there's no accreditation that could ever ever match a life being transformed so that's generally my question is what are you coming to karis for because if it's for an accreditation yeah that's all right but if it's for life change man there's no price to pay there's no price to put on a life radically transformed do you have financial aid unfortunately we do not there is we are not directly connected with the federal government and there is reason behind that and if you have more questions don't hesitate to reach out to us what is the application process well i'm so glad you asked so what i'm going to want you to do today the application process is really simple we do have an application that you will fill out but guess what we have people that want to walk through this with you so it isn't like we're just throwing you out there by yourself and yeah apply and jump through all these hoops no we're here to help you so what we want you to do and that's what i'm going to uh encourage you to do right now is we want you to go to discoverkaris.com and that is going to start the process and then we're going to have someone contact you and they are going to walk you through this process of becoming a student at karis bible college whether it's on distance ed whether it's here on campus in woodland park or it's an extension location discoverkaris.com last question what if i can't move to woodland park well i think i've kind of covered that question i think you need to do distance education or you need to find out if there is a keras bible college location near you and you need to check that out see what their schedule is and then sign up there listen you guys i don't care which way you do kerris bible college i'm just calling out and i'm speaking to your heart right now if you want life change kara's bible college is the way to do it and if you want to be exactly the same a year from now as you are right now then don't do karis bible college but i'm telling you planting the seed of the word of god in your heart is the only way you will experience life-long change change that isn't going to come and go it is there to stay so what do i want you to do discovercares.com just go to it fill out a form you're not committing your life to what's happening you're not just take that next step and that's going to discoverkaris.com and filling out the form there you can also give us a call it's an nine 844-360-9500 seven seven uh if you don't wanna go to discovercares.com but i would just encourage you reach out to us you guys and uh your life can be forever changed and we have a few more questions for andrew and carrie well i do anyway so andrew my question to you is for the people our future keras bible college students that are watching right now how would you share with them how do you think that coming to kara's bible college would help them in today's current world climate well you know the very first teaching that i do in the school is about what we call foundations and it's just about the importance of the word and let me use this verse out of 2 thessalonians chapter 2 and i'm going to break right into the middle of this 10th verse but it says because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause god shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie and you know this is the only explanation that i have for what's happening in our society today is that people because they don't love the truth which jesus said in john 17 17 thy word is truth because people don't love the word of god that's the reason that they are so deluded that they can't even tell if they're a male or a female they can't decide which restroom to go into they they think that getting rid of the police is going to make us safer i mean this is illogical and it's because people don't love the truth the truth has a sanctifying effect and when you come to bible college you are going to get the equivalent of 22 years of church attendance in two years of school that's how much saturation you know it's like taking a sponge if you take a sponge and just dip it in the water real quickly and lift it out you might get it wet around the edges but it's not going to be saturated but you if you hold a sponge under the water it will eventually soak all of that to its core and it totally permeates the thing and so most people do little 15 minute devotions or a one hour a week going to church and even though that's better than nothing that's not going to saturate you it's not going to prepare you for the battle that we're in and so karis is an immersive experience where you get saturated with the word of god and it changes your life just like julian this woman needed to be changed guess what i was a mess yes i was she got totally transformed i did my life is forever changed because it cares bible college so that's what it's about so carrie i have a question for you so you've started numerous charis bible colleges in russia and then you came back here and became the director of kara's bible college colorado and so can you share some of the testimonies or what you've seen in the students through the years that you have been in the position you're in so um besides uh getting the privilege to start multiple bible colleges across russia my husband and i get to oversee world outreach so we get to be a part of seeing other bible schools get planted in other nations and other languages and i think what i love about karis bible college it's not an american thing it's not an african thing it's not a russian thing it's not you know for german speakers or or french speakers it's the word of god that means it passes all cultural boundaries all political structures all historic things that's what's that's what andrew's talking about with the truth the truth is is for today wherever you are so if you're watching internationally this you're watching say you're in one of the states or you're at home being a mom thinking i'm i'm a mom or i've got a business how does this apply the word applies to no matter where you are whatever language culture history even your own personal family dysfunction the word applies to every single thing because it is truth and and the truth is the only thing that sets people free and so the what i've seen across the nations is that as we and we get the privilege of going to different graduations we've been to african graduations and chinese graduations and and uh you know in england and seeing students change is that they took the truth and they believed god's word was for them and the promises were for them today and i think that's the thing when people look at the word of god they can look at oh someday someday and what charis is really about is teaching that the word of god is for today it is for you now it's not something that you read and say when i get spiritual enough no karis bible college is teaching you what christ has already done and now by being a believer what actually is already inside of you that you just don't know and so this is like this huge birthday present you know that you get to open up wow this is what i already have and so this is what i've seen when students get this and their marriages and lives are transformed and what i also love about karis bible college i know that you've maybe already watched some about what first year offers second year offers in third year what i love even about our third year is that you can go into multiple different things if we're going to go into government if you're going to go into worship if you're going to go into performing arts if whatever you're going to go into it's how does the word apply to the gifting in the arena god's called you to and watching people do that we've had students from when we were in russia we had students from africa and india and china and russia and america with all these different people and they you know they went back in and they're sitting on the parliaments in their government they became doctors lawyers engineers but they're making a difference with the gospel and i think that's the thing how do you take the truth and then change your environment so amen that's some of the things i've seen and it's awesome to watch and i believe that for those of you watching you're you've been looking for how do i make a difference how can i have an impact and this is the way you do it is that immersion into the truth and it totally breaks off all your boundaries and excuses that you've had for a long time amen and i think there's a lot of confusion this day and age too as far as what is your purpose and i discovered my purpose you know i went through life 30 some years of going i know i'm made for something more than what i'm doing and so coming to karis bible college i discovered my god-given purpose and destiny and so that's what karis bible college can do for you as well as numerous numerous testimonies that come out of lives changed in cair's bible college and we want to share one of those with you so go ahead and watch this testimony and we'll be right back in about november of 2016 um i was all of a sudden i developed eczema on my face my chest my neck on top of my hands which was called oozing eczema it was disgusting so my healing was progressive upon coming here i was in fear in fear anxiety a lot of that i was taking a lot of supplements herbal supplements didn't like the doctor so i didn't want to deal with any medication etc so i was spending a lot of money on supplements and coming here i was still taking those thinking that i needed to take those i was in fear of not taking those and eating the wrong food because this was a dairy and gluten intolerance that i was told i learned i could be healed uh when i started listening to andrew and starting knowing the truth and so coming here i think is that that's when i understood and had that revelation we had barry bennett's healing class man was that amazing when it heard barry bennett's revelation of you know killing the snake that why would you let a snake come into your house into your living room when your children were there why would you let it stay there because that could kill and harm your children it can harm you it's a snake it's a it could be a spirit of infirmity or whatever but it's a snake that is coming to steal and to kill and to destroy and what we typically do is we start adjusting well i can't do that anymore can't do that anymore can't go there anymore why well there's a snake in my in my body and i think god maybe maybe god sent that no are you out of your mind [Music] kill it get stirred up in the spirit of god and recognize it for what it is it is there to steal it is there to cause every everything around your life to be adjusted to be changed to be lost money to be spent it's a snake so i realized that i needed to kill that snake in my life i was not going to take that anymore i was done i was ready for it to be out like i was sick of it cherish changed my life because i had no idea who i was i didn't know my identity i didn't know the extent of jesus inside me i didn't know that he was in me for good for life the kingdom that i was already in i didn't realize the benefit of that the blessings i have with knowing jesus that's when i had the revelation of that i could actually be healed here and now and i don't have to wait any longer for it welcome back you know i just it never gets old to see the power of god in operation and lives changed you guys that's what this is all about that's what the kingdom of god and the word of god is all about is lives being changed so carrie i have another question for you okay so in your opinion what makes kara's bible college different than other colleges out there for people that are watching well i think it depends you know there's different kinds of colleges there's secular colleges and there's there's christian colleges and there's some great christian colleges out there i think the thing first i would say about secular colleges is that's exactly what they are they're secular and so even as a believer if you feel you have a call to be a doctor engineer or lawyer we need that in this world and we need you as a christian but what i would encourage you is you need to lay a foundation because you are really entering an arena that is aggressive after your faith and so you need to know what the word of god says and you need to gain a confidence and not just what you believe but how you can articulate it in a world that is trying to truly get us to be quiet and not only be quiet to completely change our belief system so i would say that if for other colleges again i'm not going to say that god's not called you to get certain degrees or or in our professions we need that we need you in in the workplace shining for the lord but you really want to put this in into you um so i would say this is this is a huge investment into your future career and the way that god only could advance that career if you put him first and really have a foundation now for other uh maybe biblical colleges or christian colleges again we always tell people pray we don't we're not going to twist your arm to come to kerry's bible college obviously we believe it's the best college out there because we've seen the impact we've seen how it's changed our lives but we pray and get a word from the lord because once you get a word from the lord then he'll make the provision i think that's the biggest thing but what i do love about this college and as we learn from other colleges you know we're always asking other colleges how they doing this and we really become students of other colleges to say oh i like how they do this and i like how they do that but we stayed true to what god has called us to do and that really is to disciple people in their faith not just get them to go out with degrees or or licenses just to parrot other people's messages but it's truly a living word inside of them and that they know how to operate in the power of god so that's why we have people go on our mission strips that's why we have them learn to be prayer ministers that's why we have them learn to teach and preach versus just sitting and listening from a textbook our thing that makes bible college here at charis so unique is that the word of god is our only textbook you get the truth from the word and then you learn how to operate in that and so i think that's what makes us um unique in the body of christ right now and what we're trying to encourage other people to get inside of them so that they can they can touch the world it's really unique that a bible college would be studying the bible amazing we actually had one guy come to our school who went to four years of cemetery our seminary and they never opened the bible wow four years wow because you can read a lot about the bible and you can read a lot of other people's opinions about the word and there's a lot of christian books and some of them are really good but ultimately none of that takes place of the word of god because if you don't learn the word of god you don't know god's voice you don't know the language of god so then people are stumbling around going i don't know what the will of god is and i don't know how to hear god and it's because i haven't spent any time in the word so if you can get time in the word you're going to know god's language you're going to hear his voice and then you're going to know the good pleasing and perfect will of god for your life that's just it's simple but yet we've gotten away from that sometimes as the body amen and you know i um i handle e-charis right now and the majority of the things that i hear from first-year students is that they love how each instructor though they're very individual and very unique in their gifting and in their own revelation the common theme is they always point it back to relationship with god that's what karis bible college is all about like here is the word of god this is truth this is the balance of grace and faith but you got to have that for yourself with your relationship with god so andrew my question for you as we kind of round this out is um i know that there's people watching out there that maybe have this desire this inward knowing that you're called to come to karis bible college but maybe they're like i just don't see how it'll work so what would you say to them i would say that you need to come and get my first teaching that i do in the school but real quickly i'm just going to summarize some things mark chapter 4 jesus taught a parable and says if you don't understand this parable you can't understand any of them because this is foundational and it's about the power of the word of god to transform your life he compares it to a seed and he gave a number of parables here i'm just going to use one but he says that this seed when it's sown in the ground the guy sleeps and rises night and day and it springs up and bears fruit he knows not how and then it says in verse 28 for the seed for the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself and that phrase of herself is the greek word atomatose and it's where we get automatic or automatically from the seed if you will sow the seed of god's word in your heart it will automatically change you and this is how god intends for change to happen is not through praying and begging and going through all of life's problems that beat you up and so that you just finally run up the white flag you can actually take the word of god sow that seed in your heart and the seed will just automatically bring change i've got a series entitled effortless change and it really is effortless if you do it god's way and let the word change instead of begging and pleading and going through all the other things that people do so this is what charis does it changes people amen amen so we would encourage you that you know you don't have to commit to a three to five year program today all we're asking is just take that next step and that next step is going to discover karis.com and filling out a form you guys here's the deal we're gonna have people call you and they can go over your options so it's impossible as it may seem maybe you have a spouse or a family member that maybe isn't on board right now it doesn't matter let's just take that next step and go to discoverkaris.com fill out that form and we would love to call and talk with you you know we have every different type of way you can take cares bible college and if you're still watching i know you have a desire and that desire is from god right amen it's we can pretty much be sure that it's not the devil it's not the devil it's leading you to come to bible college i can guarantee so thank you guys so much for taking time out and thank you all for staying tuned and watching everything that is cares bible college remember discovercares.com fill out that form and we'll be talking to you so have a 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Published: Fri Sep 17 2021