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This course is currently available as a self-paced study with recorded cohorts: Desperate Dependency Recorded Class Cohorts 301R or as part of a recorded bundle Desperate Dependency Recorded Class Cohorts 301R Bundle [Best Choice]. If you are interested in the Desperate Dependency LIVE Class Cohort, please email [email protected] and we will add you to our waiting list.

Class 301

Desperate Dependency LIVE Class Cohort


Do you feel like something is missing in your life?

Do you have problems and issues that don’t seem to have a solution?

Have people, positions, and possessions disappointed you?

Do you feel like you are floundering in your relationship with Christ? Or perhaps you have no relationship with Christ.


What difference is there in your life because you say you are a Christian? Have you realized that you cannot successfully live independently from Jesus? Have you discovered His divine enablement that produces personal empowerment? Christ wants to be relevant to every area of your life. Will you let Him? Will you be desperately dependent?

When you look around, and perhaps if you look within, you can easily find people who seem desperate as they depend on a variety of creative solutions to experience satisfaction and fill the void in their hearts. Unfortunately, even Christians fail to recognize God’s design of a relationship that is desperately dependent on Jesus to complete their lives.

Our heavenly Father has designed us for a relationship that is desperately dependent on Jesus. Only when we embrace this relationship will we find satisfaction and a way to fill the void in our hearts.

Desperate Dependency identifies the deceptions we believe and points our searching souls to Christ, the only One who is relevant and sufficient to deal with the intricacies of life’s problems and pain. As we submit to His purpose of transforming us into the image of Christ, we will experience His promised fruit including love, joy, and peace.

Desperate Dependency challenges you to:

  • Evaluate the means you seek to be complete.
  • Understand that God’s design offers the only solution for experiencing fulfillment.
  • Move into a transforming relationship with Jesus Christ.
  • Embrace God’s design of living beyond yourself.
  • Reorganize your life while finding Christ relevant to every area of living.
  • Complete the Insight Journal designed to help you connect with God in a deeper way.
  • Be guided through Psalms Prayer Patterns to communicate with God.


Desperate Dependency LIVE Class Cohort 301 invites you to find Christ as the relevant solution to all your issues so that you may experience His love, joy, and peace with the aid of a live mentoring cohort.


GOAL:

Desperate Dependency LIVE Class Cohort 301 will challenge participants to mature in a desperately dependent relationship with Christ so that they find Him relevant to every issue of life through live cohort mentoring sessions.


OBJECTIVES:

As a result of taking this course, participants will:

1.    Develop a deeper understanding of problems—Christ is missing—through live cohort and mentoring interactions.

2.    Discover the alternate solution to problems—Christ is relevant—as a result of interpersonal interactions in live cohort sessions.

3.    Mature in dependency—Christ is enough—through insights gained in live cohort and mentoring sessions.


THIS CLASS INCLUDES:

  • 22.5 hours of LIVE cohort interaction over 15 weeks (each session 1.5 hours).
  • Processing and answering questions concerning the content of Desperate Dependency: Finding Christ Relevant to Every Area of Life.
  • Discussions regarding Insight Journal responses and blocks to spiritual development.
  • Group participation facilitates a deeper understanding for all.
  • Active mentoring with all in attendance.
  • Personal application of the Fruit of the Spirit and its counterfeits.
  • Certificate of Completion to be applied toward Biblical Church Counselor training.
Meet Your Teachers

Kirk and Melanie Lewis


For decades Kirk and Melanie Lewis have ministered as a team, challenging people to an authentic relationship with Jesus Christ. As counselors, they are committed to using biblical principles to facilitate healing and liberate weary souls from emotional bondage. Their counsel is founded upon the belief that Jesus Christ is the center of well-being and that the Bible is our authority.


Kirk and Melanie engage and encourage Christian leaders to find Christ relevant to every area of life through the ministries of Desperately Dependent Community in Chattanooga, TN.


Come join us on the journey to Desperate Dependency: Finding Christ Relevant to Every Area of Life.

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Reviews

The Desperate Dependency course is a great way to intentionally focus on your walk with the Lord while growing alongside others. The class helped me pinpoint where I was getting distracted in my relationship with God and also put many scriptures into context. It helped me work tangibly with passages and meditate on how I was applying God's truths to my life. This class is helpful for anyone who wants to be challenged and grow the next layer deep with God. –Meghan


After reading Desperate Dependency and following the progression of each chapter and section, I was able to understand God's practical applications for my life much more deeply. The tools like the Evaluation of Desperate Dependency in Psalm 119 produced a reality of my dependence or lack of dependence on God. Insight Journal questions make you think and study on what you believe. The charts and diagrams are helpful to connect to God's design for everything, and in every area of my life. I am still trying to understand the Fruit Chart in some of the Fruit of the Spirit counterfeits, but it provides a resource for my daily struggles as a starting place to seek God. Desperate Dependency pointed me to Jesus in every chapter. He was always the focus of each weekly study. This ministry of teaching has been very impactful and has changed my life. It is all a literal Biblical based source for pointing me/us to Christ. I'm grateful you put this together over many years for me and so many others to benefit. Thank you. –Tim  


This wasn’t my first time taking this, but this class is a good one to repeat. No matter how much I learn and grow, there is always more learning and growing to do and this class and book are a great tool to check myself and either get back on track or march forward in my journey closer to God. I really appreciate the tools such as the Anger Tree, Fruit Chart, and especially the concepts used in Bad Belief Good God. Utilizing those things has helped me so much on a practical way in my everyday life. If you’re feeling empty, frustrated, unfulfilled, or a whole host of things other than peace, fulfillment, and joy — this class can help you to pinpoint what may be awry. I wholeheartedly recommend it. –Mindy


I would definitely recommend this class to anyone considering taking it. It challenged me to seek Christ desperately and revealed underlying heart issues that were keeping me from Christ. It also helped guide me in that process. I'm better able to see that the answer isn't in man-made solutions and philosophies, but in Christ. It doesn't only do that, but it helps guide me to see what it means that Jesus is the answer. 

Any Christian who has problems in their lives would benefit from this course. In fact, anyone with problems in their life would benefit from this course since this course seeks to show how to see more clearly how Jesus is the answer to every problem area in our life. –David

Frequently Asked Questions


Is Desperate Dependency LIVE Class Cohort 301 eligible for a Certificate of Completion?

A Certificate of Completion will be awarded to those who complete all the lessons and certify that:

  1. I have read all of Desperate Dependency.
  2. I have watched all the Desperate Dependency videos.
  3. I have actively participated in the cohorts.
  4. I have not missed more than two Class Cohort sessions.
  5. I left a review COMMENT.

A Certificate of Completion is necessary for anyone interested in completing the Biblical Church Counselor training. But it's also nice for anyone who wants to feel accomplished!


What if I purchased the wrong course?

If you purchased the wrong course, please Contact Us as soon as possible so that we may refund your money and get you signed up for the right course.


What is the refund policy?

In general, all students purchasing content within Teachable are entitled to a 14-day refund from the date of purchase.


Is there a minimum class size?

Yes. Desperate Dependency LIVE Class Cohort 301 has a minimum class size of five. If less than five people sign up for the class, your money will be refunded.


Can I access my class on my phone?

Teachable does offer an iOS app.


How can I contact you?

Feel free to email us at [email protected].

Desperate Dependency LIVE Class Cohort 301 Curriculum

  Welcome to DD Class Cohort 301!
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  301: Introduction and Evaluation of DD
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  301: What's Missing?
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  301: Am I the Problem?
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  301: My Way Isn't Working
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  301: Fruit Chart
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  301: All about Me
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  301: My Portrait of God
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  301: The Truth about God
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  301: What Is God's Job in My Life?
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  301: My Way or His Will?
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  301: Resigning the God Job
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  301: What Is My Job?
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  301: Living in the Truth
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  301: Choosing to Be Desperately Dependent
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  301: A Job for Job
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  Don't Stop Here!
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