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ADMINISTRATION IN
EL THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE
The administration of this institution is divided into councils and the faculties. The history and the visions are now very necessary in order to understand the real administration of the institution.

THE BRIEF HISTORY OF EL THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE AND OTHER ASSOCIATE MINISTRIES OF REV. PROF. EMMANUEL ONONUJU

El Theological College was single handedly founded by Rev. Prof. Emma Ononuju. It is not the effort of any church or of any group of people but founded by Ononuju after series of prayers and waiting upon God.

Everything started in 1982 when Ononuju started an evangelistic and outreach ministry called “REDEMPTION CAMPAGINERS MINISTRY” while living at Port Harcourt. This ministry had many links abroad receiving Bibles, Books and tracts for free distributions. In 1992 the burden to establish deliverance ministry and a Bible college was born in the heart of Prof. Emmanuel Ononuju who then established one of the most influential deliverance ministries known as EL EMANCIPATION MINISTRY. This ministry was and is still great with a touring team all over the country especially eastern Nigeria. The unceasing burden and vision to start a Bible College to correct the failures   in theological education in Nigeria was too much on him, that in the year 1997, God gave him a name for the Bible College as “El Theological College”  but due to fear of men and his church, Prof Ononuju did not publicly establish this Bible college until April 9th 2001 when he took a strong challenge to have a separate accommodation for El Emancipation Ministry at No. 3 Umuagbai Road, Aba, which also gave him the courage to introduce and establish the Bible College. El Theological College was established officially in April 2001. The mission of the college is to restore spirituality, charisma and great academic performances among the clergy and students trained in El Theological College.

BIRTH OF OTHER EXTENSION CAMPUSES
In his reports to the Americans who are working with El Theological College and the affiliate institutions of the college (Eltheco) Ononuju documented that His Bible college (Eltheco) shall be a multi campus Bible college and this vow he also maintain by establishing other campuses of El Theological College in Nigeria and beyond.

Since the birth of the college it had established more than eighteen campuses in Nigeria and the Republic of Cameroon with many demands from other Africa countries to have campuses in their countries.

LOCATIONS AND VENUES
El Theological College started in 3 Umuagbai Road in the rented accommodation and later packed down to 200 Port Harcourt Road, all in Aba South of Abia State. Both locations were rented from various landlords who maltreated the young Bible college, but such maltreatments were process through which the Lord built the college.

PERMANENT SITE
In the year 2009, the Lord provided a large land for the college permanent site at Asa Nnentu area in Ugwunagbo L.G.A of Abia State of Nigeria. The land was very large and in a good academic environment. In 2014, the college started building in that site in 2015, the college had her first convocation in that venue and finally packed down to the permanent site on 2016. As at this time many buildings are on construction while some are ready for studies. El Theological College is in her land now and no more a tenant to any landlord. The present site of the institution has about four big buildings in plan, two of which are upstairs of two storey building each, while two are down stairs of larger sizes.

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS OF THE COLLEGE
Here are the administrative office of El Theological College, since its birth in 2001 till date.

1. The president
2. The deputy president
3. Zonal coordinator
4. The Rector
5. The Deputy Rector
6. The Registrar
7. The Director of missions and Christian ministries
8. The director of business and social programmes
9. Dean of student’s  life
10. Dean of studies
11. Director of postgraduate studies
12. Director of extension programmes
13. Director of foreign affairs
14. The campus director
15. Public relation officer
16. The bursar
17. The chaplain

STAFF AND FACAULTY MEMBERS

1. DR Jonathan Ifenna – Systematic Theology
2. DR (Mrs.) Evelyn Obi – Christian Education
3. DR (Mrs.) Alice Zuriel Ononuju- Child Psychology and children ministry
4. DR Joseph Chigbu – missiology
5. DR (Miss) Anthonia Edet – Biblical studies
6. DR Fred Emmanuel – Historical Theology
7. Rev Isaac Okechi – Religious studies
8. Rev Chika Godfrey – Basic ministries
9. Rev Divine Obasi – Fundamental Christian Theology
10. Rev Tony Nna – Biographical studies

OTHER MINISTRIES OF REV PROF EMMANUEL ONONUJU

1. Redemption campaigners ministries founded 1982.
2. El – Emancipation ministry founded 1992
3. El-Theological college founded 2001
4. International Institute of Missions founded 2002.
5. Global prayer link founded 2005
6. Compassionate women outreach ministry (Orphanage and caring center) founded 2008.
7. El university of theological and Biblical seminary founded 2014.

YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT CAN PERFORM GREAT MIRACLES YOU NEVER EXPECT, THEREFORE DO NOT CEASE TO PRAY AND TO SUPPORT US.

COUNCILS AND FACULTIES
Here are the councils and faculty members of the institution and their principal officers, representing the administrative positions of the seminary.

1. PRINCIPAL OFFICERS
2. DR SMC Maduagwu – Chairman governing council
3. DR Ben Oziegbe – Deputy Chairman Gov council
4. DR Jonathan Ifenna – Academic coordinator
5. DR (Mrs.) Alice Zuriel Ononuju – Chief administrator
6. DR (Mrs.) Evelyn Obi – Director of programs
7. DR Joseph Chigbu – Director of missions
8. DR (Miss) Anthonia Edet – Director of extension programmes
9. DR Fred Emmanuel – Dean of studies
10. Rev Isaac Okechi – Dean of students life
11. Rev Chika Godfrey – Director of businesses and social affairs
12. Rev Divine Obasi – campus manager
13. Rev Ikechi Nwonokoro – students union chairmanship

ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS

1. Rev DR Jonathan Ifenna – Chairman
2. Rev DR (Mrs.) Alice Zuriel Ononuju
3. Rev DR (Mrs.) Evelyn Obi
4. Rev DR Joseph Chigbu
5. Rev Chika Godfrey

THE LECTURERS
The lecturers are life makers and life keepers. El Theological College has many trained and qualified lecturers. Without any doubt, the lecturers are the main administrators of the college, thus, we want to discuss about the lecturers and other officers of the college.

EL THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION
It is true that many scholars do not see management and administration as the same issues, while others only see little differences in both, to draw the curtain at the equal size, administration has to do with a large area like a local government, state or federal government or large organization where profit are not expected from the administrator while management is the control of a film, industry or business that demands profits and returns. Bible college has both administration and management if good success is required and expected. In El Theological College we have personnel and task to achieve or vision.

PERSONNELS IN EL THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE

1. THE PRESIDENT

The president of El Theological College is also known as the chairman board of directors, who also is the founder of the Bible college. He is the most important signatory in all college transactions.

1. ZONAL COORDINATOR

A zonal coordinator is the administrative head of a zone, where more than one campus of El Theological College or international institute of missions are located. The zonal coordinator represents the president to execute and to coordinate the zone and report back to the president in any hard matter.

1. THE RECTOR

Every campus of El Theological College is headed by a rector. The rector is also called the campus director, the rector is the campus what the pastor is to the local church or what the principal is to the secondary school, even what the manager is the bank. He is the chief executive of the campus, and the director of all campus programmes.

1. DEPUTY RECTOR

The deputy rector is the next person to the rector, who can act on behalf of the rector in the absence of the rector and must have all documents, meant for the rector and can give the reports of his services to the college authorities when demanded. He is committed to internal programmes of the college, while the rector is the overall leader.

1. DIRECTOR OF POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

The director of postgraduate programmes is an officer in-charge of the postgraduate business, both academics, admissions, matriculations, graduations, studies and all postgraduate examinations. He is a senior officer of the institution and stands as the final authority in all postgraduate programmes.

NEEDED DOCUMENTS FOR THE P.G. DIRECTOR

1. Admission book
2. Matriculation book
3. Examination book
4. Assessment book
5. Graduation book

1. DEPUTY PRESIDENT

The deputy president is the college officer or a senior administrator who deputizes the president at the absence of the president and does the same works of the president. He assists the president to discharge his duties.

1. THE REGISTRAR

The registrar like every other campuses of higher learning is both the secretary, the administer and the records keeper of the college. The secretary (registrar) is in possession of all college documents, all admitted students, all matriculated students, all graduated students, all exams taken by the students are in his possession and shall present the students for graduation and for matriculation. He is to collect all necessary documents and the financial records of the students from the bursar, the records of the college and students programmes. He is to prepare and present the results of the students during graduation and when demanded.

1. THE ACADEMIC DEAN OR DEAN OF STUDIES

This is also called the dean of studies. He is in charge of studies and presides all academic meetings called for the purpose of incoming examination, date and time of examination, the courses and meeting called for that. He supervises the classes to know how the students are coping with the courses and regulates the time for studies and make sure every student is in the class during studies. He fixes time for break studies and time to close. He prepares timetable for the college and makes sure both class register and attendance register are properly signed and well kept and checks both the class register and attendance book regularly to know students who are not coming and teachers who are not meeting up. The academic dean should move the students to clear the fees before examination.

1. THE CHAPLAIN

This is the chapel pastors, he arranges the chapel and makes sure the students spiritual lives are in order, he appoints the chapel preachers, appoints the chapel prefect and appoints those that may sing, lead in prayers or in any other program of the chapel. He is mandated to help the students spiritually and to keep the chapel service lively. He fixes time of service and moderates the chapel activities; he is the pastor to the pastors. He should organize fasting, prayers and other spiritual programs for the students in the nights or by day time. He should make sure that the spiritual conditions of the students are encouraging and always should try to keep the church business of El Theological College very clear and clean. He should motivate the students for their field works as ordered by the school.

1. DIRECTOR OF MISSIONS AND CHRISTIAN MINISTRY

The director of missions and Christian ministries is an officer in charge of students ministry and mission performances, students evangelism, students field works, students missionary activities, college outreach ministries, college church planting, college evangelism, preaching and teaching programmes of the students and the college at large. Chaplain of the college is directly under him. He has records and different books to records students’ missionary and ministerial programmes to form their academic credit at last.

DOCUMENTS NEEDED BY DIRECTOR OF MISSIONS AND CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES

1. Field ministry book of the students
2. Missionary book of the students
3. Evangelism performance book
4. Church preaching/teaching record
5. Miracle book of the students
6. Soul converted record
7. College in door programme book

1. DEAN OF STUDENT LIFE

This is the chairman of the student’s affairs. His main duties are to control the students, maintain peace, motivate them to support the school, help them to be good citizens and attend students meeting when such duty is called. The college uses him to reach the students. He should work with the student’s council of the college. He makes sure that every student pays his levy, fees and other necessary item. He should lead the students to the path way of holiness.

1. THE BURSAR

This is an important officer. He is to collect, receive and record all finances, all monetary transaction and all incomes of the college. He is a different person from the rector and the registrar. He is to arrange the account and to present the account before the president, zonal coordinator, the campus rector or the admin council when such demand is made. He should arrange the school income termly or as soon as each trimester closes. He should present financial record for each student and make sure that every student clears his payment.

In each trimester before going to the next trimester. He should submit the list of the debtors and those who have cleared their fees to the rector for speed and proper follow up. No other officer has any right to collect the college money unless the bursar alone and he is the one to give accounts of the cash. He is to keep all incomes and expenditures of the college for proper supervision by a competent auditor or by the college authority.

OFFICIAL DUTIES OF THE OFFICERS
Listed above are known as the officers of El Theological college. These officers should have books, documents, files and other necessary materials as their duties may reveal. Listed below are the suggested documents needed by each of them.
DOCUMENTS NEEDED BY THE COORDINATORS

1. Note book of the registered students
2. Note book of events in the zone
3. Office file of campus reports
4. File of trimester accounts
5. Letters file
6. DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS AND SOCIAL PROGREAMS

The director of business and social programme is an officer of the college in charge of all non academic businesses, purchases, sales, building, ceremonies, business transactions, graduation and matriculation purchases and needs, including issues of bookshops, provision store, first aid center, repairs of damaged items, constructions and supervision of all electrical, carpentry, engineering and general business of the college. The college bursar and all store keepers and heads of departments of all manual labours are under him.
BOOKS NEEDED BY THE DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS AND SOCIAL PROGRAMMES

1. Purchasing book
2. Disbursement book
3. Activity book
4. Sales book
5. Invoice/receipt book
6. Workers salaries book
7. Workers performances book

RECTOR DOCUMENTS

1. Note book of the registered students
2. Notebook of events in the campus
3. Notebook of matriculating, matriculated, graduating and graduated students
4. Office file of reports
5. File for correspondences of lectures

REGISTRAR’S NEEDED DOCUMENTS

1. Notebook for students registered (admission)
2. Notebook of events
3. Minutes books for meetings
4. Book for matriculations/students
5. Book for all graduations of the years
6. Book for students examinations
7. Book for students debt
8. File for internal letters
9. File for external letters
10. Office file for the staff issues
11. Other books and files as his office may demand.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS FROM THE DEAN OF STUDIES

1. Notebook for courses taken every trimester
2. Class attendance notebook which shall be examined daily
3. Notebook for the scores and list of students that took exams
4. Office file for each trimester timetable
5. Notebook containing students presence in the school each day.

THE BOOKS OF THE CHAPLAIN

1. Notebook containing all registered students in the school
2. Notebook for chapel service which its role call shall be made during the chapel
3. Notebook for students outreach ministry and indoor prayer or night vigil programs

1. THE DIRECTOR OF EXTENSION PROGRAMMES

The director of extension programmes is an officer of the college in-charge of extension campuses, part time studies, lay training programs, Every home Bible school of spirituality, correspondent studies and church extension programmes including other academic issues outside our main campus. He also have books related to his entire business in the college.

1. THE DIRECTOR OF CAMPUS OR CAMPUS DIRECTOR

This is an officer in charge of the campus businesses, students coming in and going out, compound cleanness, security, cases among the students, hostel and compound supervisory including allocation of the hostels to the newly admitted students. The security personnel are directly under him, he also has books and records related to his duties.

1. DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

This is an officer in charge of foreign missions, foreign correspondences, foreign affiliations, foreign ministries and all academic issues outside our country. He does the works of a secretary more than the works of an administrator. He is the direct representative of the president of the college in all foreign matters and also stands as the president personal assistant (PA) in all foreign businesses of the college.

1. THE PUBLIC RELATION OFFIER (PRO)

This is an officer in charge of the college public relations. He also works as a contact secretary more than the business of an administrator. His major tasks are to represent the college in community matters, local government issues, state or federal government affairs, to represent the president in one gathering or the other and to attend occasions and ceremonies on behalf of the college or the president. He also introduces the businesses and programmes of the college to the public.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS FOR THE DEAN OF STUDENTS LIFE

1. Notebook for all who registered in the student union
2. Notebook of labour/discipline.

BOOKS AND FILES OF THE BURSAR

1. Notebook on the college income.
2. Notebook containing all admitted and registered students int eh school
3. Notebook containing disbursements.
4. Notebook for graduating and matriculating students.
5. Notebook of accounts, list of debtors and all promises, vows and the college expecting incomes.
6. File for students financial reports.
7. File for all students admitted.
8. File for financial reports, pay vouchers etc.
9. File for the banking matters and business of the college.

   INFORMATION
   All these books and files are very compulsory to the officers above for the growth and advancement of this college. The books and files ar to be supervised by the president or his delegate at the end of every trimester of the college. The greatest failure of the above officers is the omission of the any of these books.

   BOARDS AND COUNCILS IN EL THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE AND IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MISSIONS

   1. ACADEMIC STAFF UNION: This body is also called “the teaching staff”. This body is made up of the lecturers in our Bible College. The purposes of their meetings are to discuss on the courses, growth, discipline and other academic programmes of the college. This is not an administrative organ of the school but only based on academic matters of the college.
   2. ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL: This is the campus administrative council headed by the rector of the campus. In summery it should be said that the admin council owns her campus. The council is to direct the general affairs of the campus. The duties of the admin council include the followings
   3. To meet and plan for the progress of the campus
   4. To approve the students for graduation and matriculation
   5. To consider the qualified lecturers for the school and to present the same to the president for employment.
   6. To receive the reports of lecturers from different departments and to know where to advise them
   7. To receive the financial reports from the bursar in order to know who is owing among the students.
   8. To plan for the progress and success of the college and to plan for all about matriculation and graduation of the college
   9. To do all administrative works of the campus and to meet as the duty calls and to discuss on the campus matters.
   10. To form or produce agenda for the meetings of the governing council of the college.
   11. To control tension in the campus and help the students to meet up financially by advising them positively.
   12. To refers their hard matters to the governing council through the president.
   1. THE GOVERNING COUNCIL: This is a coordinating council supervising two or three campus under a zonal coordinator of El Theological College.

    

   Nevertheless, where there is only one campus in a zone, the governing council can still exist and can still manage such one while waiting and planning for the establishment of another campus on that zone. The governing council is headed by a chairman appointed by the president. The duties of the governing council are as follows:

   1. To approve, correct and consider the proposals of the admin council.
   2. To appoint and approve the hononary doctorate degree candidates for the award.
   3. To plan and carry issues within their zone or areas of operation.
   4. To plan for the success and progress of the campuses in their zone.
   5. To do all the works of administration but in the zonal level without contradicting the campus administration.
   6. To work as the executive board of the college and to work as the business arm of the college.
   7. To give consideration to the advice of the zonal coordinator and campus rectors in their meetings.
   8. To settle rectors in their zone and to advice both the rectors and the zonal coordinator.
   1. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Every campus rector is also addressed and known as the campus director. The board of director’s is made up with the zonal coordinators, campus rectors and the president as the chairman. The duties of the board of directors (rectors) are as follows:
   2. To evaluate the activities of the campuses
   3. To establish relationship among the staff
   4. To discover ways to promote the business of El Theological College and International Institute of missions.
   5. To control tension in the campuses and to serve as an overall management board.
   6. To submit agenda to the governing council for implementation and execution.
   7. To advice the governing councils and the admin councils where necessary.
   8. To evaluate the courses and assess the students.
   9. The board of directors, nevertheless, is the highest board of the college.

    

   STUDENTS UNION GOVERNMENT
   This is an organ in the college that unites the students’ body in the college. It is not an administrative board, but a union to keep the love, progress and unity f the students to be growing. The students union has their chairman, deputy chairman, secretary, treasurer and other officers. It is not a riotous union but a progressive union of love and unity.

   THE BIBLE COLLEGE BUSINESSES
   As the church is the business of God so is the Bible College the business of God. The church is where the believers are prepared for the rapture and departure while the Bible College, El Theological College in particular is where those who prepare the churches are prepared. The Bible College like the church dual businesses on earth.

   SPIRITUAL BUSINESS: Which tends to bring the ministers to spiritual mood charismatic consciousness and deep worship awareness. It is a business of making a sinner a saint and making a believer a holy and sanctifier believer on earth.

   The social or secular business, which lends to control the physical activities, physical incomes and the social administration of the college. Among these are convocations, incomes studies and other necessary issues.

   1. GRADUATION AND MATRICULATION: There shall be matriculation of new students and graduation of the qualified students every year. This outing must be accompanied with honorary awards, meritorious awards and issuance of certificates to the citizens of Nigeria.
   2. ADVERT: The admin council of the campus should find the possible means to advertise their campus, either through banner, posters, handbills, radio, TV or through the internal efforts of the students by bringing called men and women to our college. The students may be promised or assured of incentives, such as scholarship, special marks or certificates of services.
   3. HANDOUT AND COURSES: Every handout to be used must be supervised by the president or the rector on behalf of the president to assure its merit before using that in our Bible college. No under rated handout is allowed hence our Bible college is a university and stands as the best in the country, thus, we demand the best study materials.
   4. FINANCIAL RECORDS: There must be strong financial records from the bursar, from the registrar and other offices. Every student must have his or her own financial file and no student should graduate without clearing his credits, financial obligations and other required issues that qualify students for graduation.
   5. GRADUATON CREDITS: Our diploma studies still remain two years with not less than 72 courses before graduation while our bachelor students spend four years or two years after their diploma with not less than 140 courses before graduation and the evidence of this must be clear before the president who will check all these on his arrival. Our masters degree students spend 18 months after their bachelor courses while our doctorate degree courses last for three years after the masters degree courses. No student will be allowed to graduate without clearing all his or her debt and other requirements in the college, while such emphasis should start early before examinations.
   6. MONETARY MATTERS: All payments should be made to the bursar alone, while the disbursement will be approved by the president, rector or whom he delegated. Clear records should be kept for both incomes and the expenditures. Every trimester must experience disbursement and banking.
   7. LECUTURERS PAYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMME: We do not employ lecturer without a postgraduate paper. Any lecturer without up to masters degree paper or on his process to obtain the same shall not be employed hence our college is a university with university courses and certificate.

   Nevertheless, we make it compulsory to train those to postgraduate degree programmes. Our custom is to train them in our college while they take care of their tuition fees, graduation fees and all about their studies, but those who cannot meet up with the fees are also allowed to study while their supports or allowances should be used as their tuition fees even though theirs are lower than their study cost in our institution.

   1. LECTURER’S INTEGRITY: Our lecturers should be disciplines, saved, holy and always truthful. Lecturers should not be liars, money lovers, college and God’s money destroyers, position seeker, money seekers and unclean ministers. Our lecturers testimonies and stories should not be associated with evil, either in their churches, in the society, in their homes or even in our college. Every lecturer in our institution must be one with the heart experience of entire sanctification and must have fleshy ministers to teach, but those honest reports, holy and clean Ex 18:18-24, Acts 6:1-7, I Tim 3:1-12.

   SPIRITUAL BUSINESSES OF THE COLLEGE
   Both the lecturers and the Bible college as a divine institution have specific spiritual works to do in the college and in the hearts and lives of the students among these are as follows:

   1. CONVERSION: This duty is to convert the students who joined the college by desire and social persuasions but without the genuine conversion and without the new birth experience in their lives. Therefore, we teach to build and to convert.
   2. RESTORATION: This duty is to restore the backsliders who have resisted God’s calling and have joined the Bible college as backsliders who have lost their joy of salvation and their spiritual connections with God. Therefore, we teach to equip and to restore.
   3. BUILDING: This duty is to build the student to be something different from what he was before he joined the Bible college. This is true because, we have some with fear, some with doubt, some with weakness, others with confusion and needed to be built and equipped and to make them be all God wants them to be spiritually and ministerially.
   4. DEVELOPMENT: There is no called man or woman without spiritual and hidden potentials, either known or unknown to that person, still this potential cannot be used or benefited  by him or others without proper development by the institution. No student should remain the same way, same level and the same weight he came with, he needs to be developed, because he is living with untouched resources. Students need development to make them function properly.
   5. IMPARTATION: Naturally, people attend various institutions. Then, the question may arise, who then would impart life to these students? The greatest duty of the lecturer is to impart life to the students and other ministerial benefits. If the lecturer has nothing to impart to the students, he is not teaching and all his exercises are meaningless. The lecturer is mandate to create, impart, build, develop and equip the students greatly. No lecturer should leave the student the same way or same level He met him.
   6. EXCHANGE OF KNOWLEDGE: The teacher is primarily teaching to exchange knowledge and information to the student. In fact all he (lecturer) has acquired all that the students are lacking in them so if the lecturer is not exchanging knowledge, he is not teaching. If the students after their studies remain the same, the blame will go to the lecturer who did not know why he is teaching. Every lecturer is expected to always give new knowledge to the students.
   7. GROOMING: Here grooming means all things necessary to train, build, equip, develop, help, care and discipline the students. The aim of this grooming is to produce, impart and plant enviable, desirable and needed life, character and behavior in the students. The tongue, view and actions of the students must be changed if truly he attended a Bible college, especially a Bible college like El Theological College or international institute of missions. The greatest vision of the Bible college lecturer is to groom the students to good life, good character and to good behavior.
   8. EDUCATION: Another important duty or business of the Bible college and the lecturer is to give knowledge, information and education to the students. In fact every Bible college student of this era needs education, in order to get him well equipped which should empower him to speak and win educated sinners, and to pastor educated and well informed and lead well educated members in his local church, therefore, the lecturers in the Bible college like El Theological college should stick at educating the Bible college students. Give! Give! Give! Give them in order to lead the people of God. In all your giving, give education to students and watch out what their churches would be in future. Yes Education is power.
   9. HOLINESS IMPARTATION: In our all doings, if we miss holiness, we have missed all. Our Bible college is a holiness Bible college and our teachings must not fail to reflect holiness in full both in teaching, in preaching, in possession, in practice and in words, and in works. Without holiness, no eye shall see God. Mtt. 5:8, Heb 12:14.

   THE QUALITY, LIFE AND INTEGRITY OF THE BIBLE COLLEGE LECTURERS
   The Bible college lecturers at times forget themselves and what they are doing. Here we are to help the lecturers understand what they are doing and who they are. Before taking the lecturers to who they are, we shall understand the church, the life of the church and the mission of the church.

   1. THE CHURCH: This is the called out, the separated, the living organ, the wife of the Lord and the holy body of Jesus waiting for his second coming. The church should be holy, blameless, spotless, sound, spiritual and ever abiding in the truth. The question may arise, if the church should be up to such enumerated qualities above “who should make it to be so” the answer to this question is “the pastors” and if the pastors are in the task of bringing the church to such standard who then shall make the pastors? The answer to this  is that, the Bible college lecturers make the pastors who make the church. The Bible college lecturers build the pastors who shall build the church.

    

   MANDATE TO LECTURERS

   1. WHO THEN IS A LECTURER: He is the maker of those that make the church, the builder of church builders, the equipper of church equippers, the preacher of church teachers, the pastor of pastors, the church might die if the Bible college lecturer has no life in him. The Bible college lecturer is life planter and truth planter. The church fails today because the ministers failed, while the ministers failed because of the Bible college of their background. The failures of the Bible colleges and their lecturers are the failure of the entire Christendom, based on this, the theological college lecturers are expected to be great, lively, spiritual and always sound.
   1. THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF THE LECTURER: The Bible is the word of God and God is spirit, therefore whosoever would handle the Bible must be spiritual. The life of the Bible college lecturer must be very transparent, unsuspicious, clean and clear. He must be a holy man, truthful, plain and always at the side of God. Hence a Bible college lecturer is life planter, his existence must be full of life and light in order to transfer such to others who might live through his teachings.

    

   • SELFLESS AND SINCERE SERVICES: The greatest sin among the ministers is handling the Bible with hypocrisy. As many as may handle the Bible as teachers must be like Jesus in sincere and selfless services. Bible is the word of God in human literature and the word of any person is that person (the word of man is man) which means the speaker is his word, if so handling the Bible with deceit is handling God with deceit. Our business demands diligence, obedience, sincerity, faith and faithfulness which are expected of every lecturer in the Bible College. Holiness without sincerity is a deceit, as salvation without faith and faithfulness is fake and false.
   • STUDIOUS LIFE OF THE LECTURER: If he is not studious, he cannot teach, it is crime to study the course, the handout or the materials at the same time with the students and still claim to be their lecturer. It is either you study and teach or you fail and drop. Every lecturer in the Bible College must be studious, scholastic and must have deeper interest in reading, because there is no other way to describe a well read person than “WELL ROAD” and this great information in a lecturer was as a result of his greater research, competent reading, studious life and scholastic approach to books of like discipline.
   • COMPASSION TO STUDENTS: Every good lecturer gains his students through compassion. The level of understanding, level of social knowledge and academic backgrounds of the whole students are not the same. Some are poor citizens and illiterates before their call, and still one lecturer is called to teach them perhaps in one class, then what might the lecturer do in order to groom them equally? He can do nothing than to apply great compassion, courage and fatherly care to all especially the poor and illiterate ones among them. Compassion goes with patience and care. The lecturer must seek ways to help the students, assist them, pray with them, advise them, encourage them and finally show them (students) their inheritance in Christ Jesus. It is a great crime for the lecturers to constitute the issues of discouragement, fear and failure to the students. Every lecturer is a father in the college, to the class he is teaching and great father to each student that comes across him.
   • LEADERSHIP QUALITY OF THE LECTURER: Any lecturer without leadership quality and ability will make little impact in his teaching. It is only the leader that makes leaders, and without a lecturer becoming a leader, he cannot take the students to a higher level. For the lecturer to succeed in his teaching, he must possess the quality that must attract others to him, must learn how to register a new thought each time he goes to class and must have it as a goal to go to class with new things that must make him to be demanded by the students. He must aim at taking the students to a higher level, must always direct, lead, draw attention of students and must control the students emotion, weakness and fears. A leader is the person that comes with a new leadership style every day.
   • PRAYER LIFE OF A LECTURER: No one can handle the word of God, either as an offensive weapon or as defensive armour without enough prayers. Every lecturer in the Bible college must be a prayer warrior consciously or unconsciously. He is mandated to pray for himself, to pray for teaching unction, for boldness, for wisdom, for wider knowledge, for spiritual stability and influence of God in  him. His prayer is not enough if he fails to pray for this Bible college, for its growth, its advancement, peace and for the success of the college. He is also owing every class and students under him. He should not, stand up from his knees without bringing his students to God daily as he prays. A Bible college lecturer must by all necessity be a man of prayer. He can never succeed if he never consider his teaching godly. Prayer is the key to the success of every Bible college teacher. Prayer without ceasing I Thess 5:17.
   • FEAR OF GOD: It may sound strange to hear that the teachers in the Bible institutes do not have the fear of God. If the fear of God is not found in a lecturer, he will produce pastors without the fear of God and pastors in turn produce members without fear of God, thus, many churches nowadays are social clubs and godless congregations – why? It is because of godless mentors. The Bible college is a stream where all waters flow. The lecturer must respect God in his speeches, in his actions, in his dealings with opposite sex, in h is dealings with money, in h is appearance and in his daily business in the college.
   • JESUS LIKE TEACHING: If the Bible College teacher is not teaching like JESUS he is teaching like Judas. Paul says follow me, as I follow Jesus. In fact, Jesus should be the example, the model and the focus of every Bible college teacher. Jesus’ teaching was direct, powerful, real, understandable and sharp but still full of love, humility, compassion, faith and faithfulness. We are Jesus ambassadors and if we are not representing him, we are not for Him. We must teach, preach and act like Jesus who sent us to go into the world to make disciples. One of the most outstanding quality of a lecturer and of course every Christian is to “BE LIKE JESUS” who commanded us to follow Him Mtt. 4:19.
   • HOLINESS ALWAYS: El Theological College does not employ fleshy, carnal and worldly lecturers to teach. All lecturers and staff of El Theological College must be Christians who have experienced the second work of grace known as entire sanctification with practical evidences of meekness, faith, faithfulness, obedience, love, great piety, devotion, consecration and self denial. El Theological College only employs staff that are holy who shall in turn produce holy pastors who shall also produce holy members in their churches. Lecturers in El Theological College above every other thing must aim at imparting into the students, the great desire to be holy.
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