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Mission, Vision and Statement of Faith

Theological Education Institute (TEI)

Mission

  1. To educate the grassroots of the believing church in excellent biblical theology, also equipping many to become leaders in the culture;
  2. To honor the unalienable rights given by God to all people equally, with specific emphasis in advancing religious, political and economic liberty;
  3. To bring the Gospel into all sectors of society – government, education, media, business, science and the arts – in service to the family and church;
  4. To welcome the toughest questions of all skeptics with graciousness in demeanor and rigor in thinking; and accordingly
  5. To let the goodness of Jesus the Messiah become transparently evident, and so build the kingdom of God through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Vision

  • We know that opposition to the Gospel is very deep within elitist culture; and thus
  • The vision is to see a culture come to pass where the reputation of believers is known – as with Moses, Daniel and Paul – for being rooted in 1) love, 2) a sound mind and 3) the power of the Holy Spirit. And that these believers are found in every sector of society, up to the most important leadership roles; and thus
  • We have need for biblically and constitutionally literate people to run for and be elected to public office.

Statement of Faith:

  1. The classical orthodoxy of the Nicene Creed is a faithful summary of biblical essentials to faith;
  2. This faith is rooted and defined in the 35 books of the Hebrew Bible (Tenakh) and 27 books of the New Testament, which on their own exegetical terms equal the completely trustworthy, revealed and sufficient written Word of God; and
  3. The Protestant Reformation, in its classical evangelical identity, and in the goal of ecclesia reformata semper reformanda ("the church reformed and always reforming"), strives to be a fully hospitable context for biblical faith and true ecumenism.

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Beyond the visions outlined on this website, there are three more aimed for in the future::

  1. The TEI Bank is a vision for a very simple and trustworthy banking system, where along with TEI Burden Sharing, the commodity of trust will be the value sought and fulfilled.
  2. The TEI Undergraduate Center has been a vision for a five-year bachelor of liberal arts degree rooted in biblical theology, where all graduates are equipped superbly to succeed in marriage, graduate studies in seminaries and/or the finest research universities, vocation and life. But, this vision may be happily superceded with the founding of the C. S. Lewis College, a biblically based Great Books College rooted in the Oxford University tutorial model, in Northfield, MA, aiming to open in the fall of 2013 (see www.cslewis.org).
  3. The TEI Orchestra and Sacred Choir is a vision to bring God’s superb gift of music into a dying culture.