Teachings by
Victor Paul Wierwille
The ministry of Victor Paul Wierwille (1916-1985) spanned more than 40 years. During that time he wrote numerous books, penned over four-hundred magazine and newspaper articles, instructed a wide variety of classes, taught at hundreds of fellowship meetings and ministered to tens of thousands of God's people around the world. Dr. Wierwille was also the founder and first president of The Way International.
Dr. Wierwille's books include Power for Abundant Living, Receiving the Holy Spirit Today, The Bible Tells Me So, The New Dynamic Church, The Word's Way, God's Magnifed Word, Order My Steps in Thy Word, Are the Dead Alive Now, Jesus Christ is Not God, Jesus Christ Our Passover, Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed and Christians Should Be Prosperous. Classes he taught included the Foundational, Intermediate and Advanced classes on Power for Abundant Living, along with "Corps Night" classes, taught at the Way Ministry's various Way Corps training locations, researching the books of I and II Thessalonians, Romans, Ephesians and I and II Timothy.
Dr. Wierwille received his undergraduate divinity degree at Mission House (Lakeland) College and Seminary. He afterward studied at the University of Chicago and at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was awarded a Master of Theology degree in Practical Theology. After graduating he was invited to study at Oxford University, in England, but would complete his doctorate sometime later under Dr. H. Ellis Lininger, a well-known homiletician, at the Pikes Peak Bible Seminary and Burton College in Manitou Springs, Colorado. He was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1941 and over the next sixteen years would pastor two churches for the Evangelical and Reformed denomination (now called the Church of Christ) in the northwestern Ohio towns of Payne and Van Wert.
It was during the fourteen years he pastored in Van Wert that Dr. Wierwille began his quest, in earnest, for the keys to the more abundant life that Jesus Christ promises in John 10:10. As he pursued his own lines of Biblical research, Dr. Wierwille would study with men such as E. Stanley Jones, Glen Clark, Rufus Mosley, J.E. Stiles, Oral Roberts, B.G. Leonard, Starr Daily, Ablert Cliff, Bishop K.C. Pillai, Karl Barth and George M. Lamsa. On October 3, 1942 Dr. Wierwille began an independent radio broadcast on WLOK in Lima, Ohio which after his resignation from the denomination in 1957 would become the world-wide ministry known as "The Way."
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The public-domain teachings, which are presented here in written form, Dr. Wierwille originally presented live. See the notices on the individual teachings for details.Clicking on the links below will open these PDF files in a new window. PDF files are designed for printing, rather than for reading on screen. The pages of these teachings are formatted to be printed front-and-back, with space left along the inside edge for binding. -Click here- for the latest version of Adobe's PDF Reader.
- Christ Formed in You - (presented November 24, 1974 at The Way International Headquarters)
- Stones of Witness - (presented February 22, 1976 at The Way International Headquarters)
- The Red Thread - (presented March 12, 1978 at The Way International Headquarters)
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"That You May Know"
Here is a fantastic resource for everyone who has been lamenting the fact that Dr. Wierwille's classes are no longer available. If you're like me, your old Sunday Night Service cassettes are getting longer in the tooth every day, if they still run at all. And you've never had an anywhere-near complete set to begin with.
You can add to your audio library recordings of just about every Sunday Night Service teaching that Dr. Wierwille ever taught -- dating from the 1960s through the 1980s. I heard Dr. Wierwille say, on more than one occasion, that he taught the Word of God from entire Power for Abundant Living series, over the years, during his various Sunday Night Service teachings. So quit your "whining" and get to "dining." (Heh.)
For eighty-eight bucks, plus $8.50 shipping, you will receive sixteen CDs formatted in MP3, that contain recordings of the "504 public, non-copyrighted, Sunday Teaching Service" tapes and the "30 Tape of the Month" tapes that included teachings by Dr. Wierwille. Plus you'll receive, on a separate CD, an excellent index to the teachings that you can print up.
(NOTE: I've done a little bit of this kind of work, folks, so I know what's involved. And I want to tell you, this had to be a "labor of love." No doubt about it, this is a great deal! And by the way, since there seems to be a question, the BRJ was not involved in producing these CDs and we are not involved in distributing them. Nor do we get any kind of "cut" for "advertising" them. Sheesh.)
These recordings include the live presentations of the teachings that we are in the process of transcribing into PDF. But while it's nice having some of Dr. Wierwille's "classic" teachings down in writing, there's no need to wait on the BRJ -- especially since we're never going to get around to anywhere near all of them. (534 teachings! Wow!) Why not listen to "the Teacher" teach for yourself?