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Christian Trainers: To Be, or Not to Be... It's Not Even a Question!

  The Trainer and His Objective The role of a trainer is to prepare another participant for a future engagement. Trainers are to provide the trainee with tools for interacting during that engagement when it arises. If successfully trained, the trainee will use those tools to effect the outcome desired of the trainer . Therefore, it can be assumed that the trainee's performance is a direct reflection of his training, but even more so of the one providing the training... the trainer . The Christian Trainer If you, as a believer, have children, then you are a spiritual trainer regardless of whether or not you desire to be. The parent is either training proactively by obeying God's Word, or he is training myopically (unwittingly) by ignoring God's Word. So often we hear Proverbs 22:6-- "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it" -- and we tie it to Biblical obedience. We all understand that the verse denotes that