Who We Are

• deep unhurried intimacy with Christ,
• vulnerable communities of compassion, and
• Spirit-empowered mission in the world

...become central to leaders and followers in these organizational settings. We believe this will require a reversal of the collapse of space and time embedded in significant portions of these structures, which can only be accomplished by the in-breaking of God's reign.

Our mission is to help raise up a generation of Christian leaders who listen to God, embody His character and extend His kingdom in their spheres of influence. Our mission's goal is the imitation of Jesus' patterns, not the hurried leadership patterns that dominate culture and church in which the collapse of space and time has suffocated communion with God and community with one another.

Our strategy, therefore, creates unprecedented time and space for God in the leadership settings of seminaries, churches, mission agencies, and marketplace organizations so that deep spiritual formation is integrated with leadership development. The courses we teach and the leadership training we provide devote at least one-third of its time devoted to practices of intimacy with God and burden-bearing community. Only if such patterns are deeply rooted and integrated throughout a church or organization will empowered mission emanate. For twenty years, The Leadership Institute has pioneered this radically different kind of leadership development.

Our desired legacy over the next twenty-five years is to see a number of churches, academic institutions, mission organizations, and market place organizations in North America transformed into models in which these patterns are embedded throughout their structures and to see Leadership Institute teams emerge in various parts of the world that could leave similar legacies on their continents. ---

• We believe in one God, Creator, personal and triune.

• We believe in the full authority of the Scriptures.

• We believe that Jesus Christ, being fully God, became fully human by taking on human flesh through the virgin birth.

• We believe that Jesus Christ accomplished redemption by His atoning death and bodily resurrection and now lives in glory and will return again.

• We believe that all who receive Jesus Christ by faith as their own Savior are saved not by personal merit but by Christ's death and resurrection.

• We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells and empowers every believer that each may be conformed to the image of Christ and united in the fellowship of the Body of Christ, the Church.

• We believe that Jesus Christ has commissioned all believers to be disciples and then to make disciples, proclaiming the Gospel and expressing God's mercy and justice to all peoples everywhere.