\u00a0Is the Sunset International Bible Institute a trustworthy organization?<\/a>\u00a0I’m not a fan of man-made organizations being used to accomplish the work God gave to the church.<\/p>\nIf your son is interested in preaching I would recommend finding a preacher with whom he can study. God commanded that preachers are responsible for the training of other preachers. “And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also<\/em>” (II Timothy 2:2). La Vista is a very small congregation, but we have managed to train a number of men to preach. The fifth one in the seventeen years I’ve been here is about to head out to preach. Given today’s technology, I’ve been holding Bible studies for years over the phone and Skype in addition to local studies. I’m positive that I’m not the only preacher doing this. The advantage of studying and working with a preacher is that the training becomes tailored to what the student needs. The real hard part is finding a good preacher to study with and figuring out how to support yourself while you are learning.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Question: One more question if you don’t mind. My son is interested in online studies and mission work. I only know of the\u00a0“AIM” program. We have an individual from our congregation that is in the program now, but our church is pretty small, so they can only support one person at a time in that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[381,536],"class_list":["post-32443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-education","tag-preaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16204,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-the-sunset-international-bible-institute-a-trustworthy-organization\/","url_meta":{"origin":32443,"position":0},"title":"Is the Sunset International Bible Institute a trustworthy organization?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Someone has invited me to study at a satellite school at Sunset International Bible Institute. 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