Learning To Integrate The Attributes Of God Into Our Own Personality

About the Book

            The series’ theme statement: God’s personality can be formed in the personality of the Christian through the event of learning about God and desiring God to change one’s own personality.

            Volume II is a series of lessons designed to show Jesus, who lived in poverty and suffered a cruel death, modeled the attributes of God while He lived here on earth. The Greek names of God are studied.

Lesson sequence:

            Step 1 – Study the Greek name of God, which reveals an attributed the Christian desires.

            Step 2 – Read about a non-Biblical woman who has the attribute or the opposite of this attribute. Study why this attribute became formed in her personality.

            Step 3 – (Main body of the lesson) Study Biblical women who have this attribute. Learn how God integrated this attribute into the Godly woman’s personality.

            Step 4 – Small group interactions begin the process of learning how to have God integrate this attribute into one’s own personality.

About the Author

       Willodine Hopkins, a widow with four children, was born and lived many years of her life in Northeast Arkansas. She holds a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree in Biology in Education from Arkansas State University. While living in Arkansas, she taught in the Clover Bend and Tuckerman public school districts for several years. She then made a career change and began to teach in Christian educational institutions, Crowley's Ridge Academy for two years and Crowley's Ridge College for five years.

       While on the faculty of Crowley's Ridge college, she was the Woman's coordinator for their comprehensive Evangelism Program, organizing and sending "Campaigns for Christ' groups to New England, Panama, Canada, and China. On weekends she organized and conducted nearly one-hundred "1,000 for Christ" ladies' rallies. In each rally, a thousand persons were taught the Gospel using Bible correspondence courses. She also coordinated "Target-A-Nation" evangelism workshops in which missionaries, campaign workers and interested Christians assembled to learn the peoples and cultures of the nations and how to plan to reach each nation with the Gospel.

       She then relocated to Southern California, continued her education by taking courses from California State University and the University of California at various campuses in the evening and on Saturdays, while she taught in Normandie Christian School in Los Angeles and later for Los Angeles Unified School District.

       As a teacher of Biblical Women and Women's Role in Evangelism, she has taught Seminars, Retreats, Special Luncheons, and Soul Winning Workshops at Crowley's Ridge College, Biola University, Pepperdine University, and in churches in many U. S. states and Canada.