What Is The Bethel Institute?
Channel: Bethel Church
Date: 2024-04-06

The Bethel Institute is an opportunity to come together with other believers and be challenged while growing in our beliefs.

If you grew up in Church you might remember “Sunday school” classes. Whether you were a kid or even an adult a Sunday school class was a dedicated time to study The Bible or a specific Christian topic with other Christians. At Bethel, we don’t have Sunday School classes but we value growing in our Relationship with God by studying His word. One way we do this together is through the Bethel Institute.

In the Institute, our aim is to provide catalytic training to equip disciples, empower leaders, and send culture-shaping, kingdom-minded, biblically-fluent followers of Jesus into the world. We do this through relationship-centered classes that will prepare you to be sent out as a disciple of Jesus.

We offer classes 3 times per year as part of the Bethel Institute. Each class is a different study and our topics vary, but each one will fall under one of those values. We’ve had a Spiritual Formation class that was our kingdom-minded class, a Race and the Gospel class which was our culture-shaping class, we’re about to have a biblically-fluent focused class that is going over the big picture of Scripture and how all the books of the Bible are connected and telling the same story. 

Our classes include going through a book or a workbook where you’ll do some studying during the week, then you’ll come together with the rest of the class and hear some teaching on the topic with plenty of time to engage in discussion with others about what you’re learning. 

We also offer 1 seminar a year such as the Winsome Convictions seminar with Tim Muelhof, or the Let’s Talk about Race seminar with Isaac Adams. For these seminars, we typically bring in a guest speaker who specializes in a certain biblical topic we can learn from.