Bible Study
Bible Study - 40 Days to the Trainer
Discipleship Training
Offered On Demand - Wilder, Idaho
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you" (Matthew 28:19-20).
If you are thinking about participating in the Bible Study offered by Training for the Cross, you probably have a few questions. Hopefully, you will find the answers here, but if you don't, please e-mail any additional questions to: wade@trainingforthecross.com. Or contact us through the Contact page.
Discipleship Training
The goal of Training for the Cross, LLC, is to set a solid foundation in each of our client's horses and then help the client and horse become one. The best way to become one with a horse is to set out to do a job together, and the most enjoyable job in my opinion is branding calves and other forms of ranch roping, doctoring, calving, and disciplinary training, etc. "40 Days to the Trainer" is how we apply our business principles to our spiritual lives.
The "40 Days to the Trainer: Discipleship Training" is an 8-week Bible study using parables to better understand the "pattern" of the Tabernacle and the significance it plays in a believer's life. Moses was given a pattern when instructed to build the tabernacle and it was this pattern that took the priest in the Old Covenant into the presence of God. The same pattern can take ALL believers into the presence of God in the New Covenant.
They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain" (Hebrews 8:5).
The pattern given to Moses in the Old Covenant can serve as a copy (model) to help take us into the presence of God in the New Covenant. The priest in the Old Covenant could not just walk into the presence of God without preparing themselves first, and neither can we in the New Covenant. The "40 Days to the Trainer" uses horsemanship, roping skills, stockmanship, ranch roping, and rodeo parables to help reveal to us who we are in Christ, to fan into flame and direct our spiritual gifts, to teach us spiritual discernment and reading people, and how to smoothly and effectively deliver a word to a struggling person. The goal of this Bible study is to set a solid foundation in a believer's life of "who they are in Christ," and help the believer draw closer to becoming one with Christ. Just like with a horse, the best way to become one with God is to set out to do a job together.
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, His body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water (Hebrews 10:19-22).
40 Days to the Trainer 8-week Bible study
1st meeting: Intro "40 Days to the Trainer," Foundation for Perfection, and The Tabernacle
Homework: Daily reading in "Foundation for Perfection: A Guide to Discipleship"
Day 1- pages 12-21
Day 2- pages 22-35
Day 3- pages 36-42
Day 4- pages 40-52
Day 5- pages 52-65
Day 6- pages 66-76
2nd meeting: Horsemanship (Foundation) "Who we are in Christ"
Homework: Read one chapter of "Returning to Eden" and write in Journal daily
Day 1- Preface
Day 2- Introduction
Day 3- True Unity
Day 4- In the Beginning: A Perfect World
Day 5- In the Beginning: God, Man, Animals
Day 6- Two Thought Processes
Day 7- Job Completion vs. True Unity
3rd meeting: Horsemanship (Foundation) "Who we are in Christ"
Homework: Read one chapter "Returning to Eden" and write in Journal daily
Day 8- God's Will: Driving Factors
Day 9- Confidence/Faith
Day 10- Obstacles in Accomplishing the Job
Day 11- God's Will: To do a Job
Day 12- 1st Obstacle: Submitting Our Will
Day 13- Two Levels of Submission
Day 14- Two Kinds of Horses and Two Kinds of People
4th meeting: Horsemanship (Foundation) "Who we are in Christ"
Homework: Read one chapter of "Returning to Eden" and write in Journal daily
Day 15- 2nd Obstacle: Communicating God's Will
Day 16- Direction for My Ministry: "Communication"
Day 17- 3rd Obstacle: Obeying Commands and Building Confidence
Day 18- Resistance in Obeying Commands and Building Confidence
Day 19- 4th Obstacle: Completing the Job
Day 20- Willing Submission
Day 21- Communication
5th meeting: Roping Skills - Developing Your Spiritual Gift
Reading: "Foundation for Perfection: Ranch Roping, Rodeo, and Business"
Homework: Read one Chapter of "Returning to Eden" and write in Journal daily
Day 22- Direction and Life
Day 23- False Direction
Day 24- Balanced Direction to Life Ratio
Day 25- Solid Foundation of Maneuvers (Mechanical)
Day 26- Solid Foundation of Maneuvers (Mental)
Day 27- Solid Foundation of Maneuvers (Bringing Mechanical to Mental)
Day 28- Three Stages of Breaking a Horse
6th meeting: Roping Skills - Devloping Your Spiritual Gift
Reading "Foundation for Perfection: Ranch Roping, Rodeo, and Business"
Homework: Read one Chapter of "Returning to Eden" and write in Journal daily
Day 29- Theme of the Book: "Communication"
Day 30- Rivers in Eden: The Way to Paradise
Day 31- Rivers in Eden
Day 32- Euphrates: Up to Our Ankles
Day 33- Hiddekel: Up to Our Knees
Day 34- Reaching Pison: Up to Our Loins
Day 35- Havilah: Tribulation that Leads to Pison
7th meeting: Stockmanship, "Spiritual Discernment and Reading People"
Homework: Read "Applied Animal Behavior and Ranch Skills: Horsemanship, Stockmanship and Human Relations"
Day 36- Havilah: Repent of Un-Nakedness
Day 37- Pison: Reaching Maturity in Christ
Day 38- Gihon: Over Our Heads
Day 39- Waters From God: Pure River of Life
Day 40- What is the Problem?
8th meeting: Ranch Roping - Delivering a Word to a Struggling Person
Tying it all Together and Open Floor for Sharing