What We Believe
The following convictions of our hearts and ministry is based solely from scriptures straight from the Holy Bible.
10/40 MTI Standard & Culture
The 10/40 Missionary Training Institute is not a place to receive rehabilitation and it’s not a school for those just coming out of lifestyle sins. Our learning environment and school are not structured to help those struggling with self-control. Our focus as a ministry and missionary training center is not on correcting behavior in students, but our focus is to grow their potential to be in full-time ministry leadership positions. We are happy to recommend alternate ministries that can help students who are leaving challenging lifestyle circumstances.
- We live to bring glory to God, being selfless, and living to serve. (Philippians 2:5-8)
- We strive to renew our minds daily, keeping a positive mental attitude, and outlook on everything. (Philippians 4:8 & 1:9-10)
- We always bring our best, living a life of excellence in everything that we do.
- We honor our leaders, as well as each other. We always go the extra mile. (Colossians 3:23)
- We are better together. We work together as a TEAM to help everyone win, keeping WE before I. (Ecclesiastes 4:9)
- We are effective and efficient with our time, priorities, and responsibilities, knowing that our time is essential to reaching the masses. “We work hard, rest hard, and play hard.” (Ephesians 5:15-16)
- We are leaders, and strive to live a life that others can follow. We are influencers for the Kingdom; being an example of Jesus in everything that we do. (1 Corinthians 11:1)
- We see things through the lens of harvest and reaching the lost. We are eternally minded. (Mark 16:15 & Colossians 3:2)
WE BELIEVE:
There is only one true God who is the eternal King, Creator and Redeemer of all that is.
He is perfectly holy and we are not.
He is 100% truthful and we are not.
He is forever just and only by Him and through Him are we made just.
He is love; it's not what He does, it's who He is, and we are fully capable of learning His love through His Spirit.
He has revealed Himself to be eternally self-existent- one being in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
The Bible to be the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God.
Praise Ministries Int'l Inc. Statements of Faith
- We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God revealing the love of God to the world.
1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; John 3:16.
- We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19; John 10:30; Ephesians 4:4-6.
- We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. Matthew 1:23; John 1:1-4 and 1:29; Acts 1:11 and 2:22-24; Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4;
2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 1:1-4 and 4:15.
- We believe that all men everywhere are lost and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ results in regeneration by the Holy Spirit. Furthermore we believe that God will reward the righteous with eternal life in heaven, and that He will banish the unrighteous to everlasting punishment in hell. Luke 24:46-47; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 5:10-11; Ephesians 1:7 and 2:8-9; Titus 3:4-7.
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, whose indwelling enables the Christian to live a godly life. John 3:5-8;
Acts 1:8 and 4:31; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Galatians 5:16-18; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:6-10.
- We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment. 1 Corinthians 15:51-57; Revelation 20:11-15.
- We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the church. 1 Corinthians 12:12, 27; Ephesians 1:22-23.
- We believe that the ministry of evangelism (sharing and proclaiming the message of salvation only possible by grace through faith in Jesus Christ) and discipleship (helping followers of Christ grow up into maturity in Christ) is a responsibility of all followers of Jesus Christ. Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15; 1 Peter 3:15.
- We believe God’s plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female. Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:26-27;
1 Corinthians 6:9.
- We believe that we must dedicate ourselves to prayer, to the service of our Lord, to His authority over our lives, and to the ministry of evangelism. Matthew 9:35-38, 22:37-39, and 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15 and 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10; Colossians 2:6-10; 1 Peter 3:15.
- We believe that human life is sacred from conception to its natural end; and that we must have concern for the physical and spiritual needs of our fellowmen. Psalm 139:13; Isaiah 49:1; Jeremiah 1:5; Matthew 22:37-39; Romans 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10.
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