About

This training was first developed in 2024 for a conference in Sydney, Australia. It was inspired by similar trainings called “strands” that are run by a number of organisations in Sydney. This training was specifically designed to improve upon existing material in the following ways:

• Free of copyright – So it can be shared and improved without restriction
• Easy to adapt – All source files are provided and are easily editable
• Easy to translate – Western metaphors have been avoided as much as possible

The material is written from a Reformed Evangelical perspective. The Berean Standard Bible (BSB) is used for quotations of Scripture since it is high quality and non-commercial.

All resources are completely free of copyright and dedicated to the public domain.

You can learn more about the importance of removing all copyright restrictions from ministry resources at Let’s copy, church. You can also dive into the theology of free giving at Selling Jesus.

Author

Jon Here has served for many years as a pastor part-time and also some years as a missionary in south-east Asia. He founded Gracious Tech, an app development company that produces software for cross-cultural mission. He completed his MDiv at Sydney Missionary & Bible College.

Acknowledgements

The following concepts have been used or adapted:

• The three training “strands” – Katoomba Christian Convention
• Kingdom framework – Graham Goldsworthy & Vaughn Roberts
• “Clowney Quadrilateral” diagram – Edmund Clowney

Feedback

Please do adapt the material to your own needs, but if there are any improvements you believe would benefit all use cases, you can contact Jon via Gracious Tech.

A prayer

The hope is that this training will be the start of something much greater. A future where everyone in the world can access high quality biblical training completely free of cost and copyright restrictions. Where young pastors can study advanced levels of theology, even to the level of master degrees, completely for free. Pray God would raise up godly teachers who are willing to share their knowledge without conditions.