As a 9 year old child, as I sat in First Corinth Baptist Church on Palm Sunday morning in Sunday School assembly, I heard an angelic 'voice' speak to me and say: "It's time to make a change". I then came forward and accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior that day!
In 1975, I joined the Antioch Baptist Church North in Atlanta, Georgia where I was licensed as a Minister of the Gospel on April 29, 1979 and was ordained to the Gospel Ministry in December of 1988 .
Ministering for 40 years and counting, God has taken me down many diverse roads. First, briefly pastoring at Cross Plains Missionary Baptist Church in Gainesville, Ga. In 1988, then serving as Assistant to the Pastor at First Missionary Baptist Church in Southeast Atlanta in 1989 under the pastorate of Rev. W Leon Anderson. From there in 1991 I served as both Assistant Pastor and Director of Christian Education at Union Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia and after the untimely death of our then pastor, the late Rev. John L. Freeman,
I then served as Interim Pastor at Union until they called the Rev. C. Andre Grier to the position of Pastor in 1993. From there, in 1994, God sent me to Millers Chapel Baptist Church to serve as their Director of Christian Education until in the year 2000 under the pastorate of Dr. Aldren Sadler. Also, while in seminary at Bryant Theological Seminary's extension program, in 1996, I was blessed to serve as New Testament Theology teacher there. Classes were held at the Greater Ephesus Missionary Baptist Church teaching New Testament Theology. In 2000, God sent to Bald Rock Baptist Church in Conyers, Ga., serving under the dynamic leadership of the Rev. Christopher M. Shipp to serve as Wednesday Night Bible Study Teacher. In December 2013, again, the Lord has moved in my life and ministry and sent me Greater White Rock Baptist Church to serve as Associate Pastor and Assistant to Pastor Walker B. Moore Jr. where I will serve until I was moved to return to Bald Rock Baptist Church to teach bible study and the Adult Sunday School class.
I'm deeply committed to living according to Jehovah (Yahweh) God's Biblical principles, precepts, and truths. I strive everyday to live in and by HIS love. I strive to be a fit vessel for the body of Christ, and like the Apostle Paul, I purpose to "die daily" that Christ may live more in me, lifting HIM higher and higher. I believe that it only through God's love that we exemplify all attributes of the "Fruit of the Spirit".
To be a successful preacher, pastor or teacher, I believe your ministry and call must be Bible based, Christ Centered, Holy Spirit led and Evangelistic in scope. Every servant of Christ must submit themselves totally unto the Lord and commit to "spiritual maturity", a strong "non-ceasing" prayer life, constantly seeking God's guidance without fail.
I believe Christian Education is a "must" for a strong church ministry. For correct Biblical exposition (rightly divide the WORD of God) (2 Timothy 2:15), it's imperative that today's church leaders have "biblical" training and "formal education" whether from a seminary or Bible college or other Bible based training classes, while retaining "the common touch" of love, compassion and patience in ministering to those they are to minister to, as well as having a deep commitment toward sincere ministry and only wishing to be a servant for Christ.
The purpose and goal of sharing the information on this website is simply to help others to be able to communicate God's Word with power, authority, clarity and truth. As each recipient rely on Holy Spirit of Promise and Truth, the servant of God will become thoroughly furnished toward good work in the Gospel ministry, as well as becoming a "calming, encouraging and healing balm" to some people and compel others to come to know Jesus Christ both as their "Savior" and as "Lord" .
This website is an extension of the personal ministry God called me to since 1979. This global website contains biblical workshops material, work from my seminary studies, and personal bible studies I have conducted over the years, and lesson outlines design to aid any minister or teacher to better share and educate those they are privileged to teach, as well as spurn a greater personal growth in that minister, teacher, as well as those student and parishioners who are blessed by God to sit under such dedicated vessels.
Credentially, I currently hold a Doctor of Biblical Counseling Degree. I am a candidate for a Doctors of Theology degree. I also hold both Bachelor and Masters of Divinity Degrees from Andersonville Theological Seminary, Camilla, Georgia.
2 Timothy 4:1-5
Preach the Word
I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at* His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
NKJV
Preach the Word
I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at* His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
NKJV
Rev. Dr. William Edward Boddie