Northern Training Institute

training for church leadership in the context of your ministry

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    Northern Training Institute
    The Northern Training Institute provides an affordable, Bible college-level programme of study that enables students to integrate theological training with involvement in ministry through residential weeks, seminar days and guided reading. The Institute also promotes theological reflection on the practice of mission and ministry.

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    NTI Students

    "It's hard to imagine how part-time theological study could get any better!"

    "NTI has been extremely useful, teaching us to do theology in the context of local church ministry and giving us the solid foundations we need."

    "NTI was the perfect solution to my situation. I was co-leading a local church and working part-time so I wasn’t in a position to take three years out for Bible college. I needed a flexible approach to study and NTI was the answer!"

    NTI Students

    "NTI is both rigorous and practical in its study of theology: a safe forum to explore theological ideas and test assumptions under the authority of Scripture."

    "The monthly seminar days have been invaluable to my learning and applying learning to my context. I have very much enjoyed learning alongside fellow practitioners. NTI is great!"

    NTI Students

    "NTI has helped us gain a sound biblical theological understanding, but also left us room to reflect at some length on theological issues pertinent to our own current and future ministry situations."

    "The seminar days and residentials have been especially helpful: great fun as well as great learning, and real times of sharpening one another as iron sharpens iron."

    "Superb value for money!"

    NTI Students

    "I’d recommend NTI to anyone."

    "NTI has been a real blessing. Everything we study is directly applicable to the world we are involved with in the church."

    "If I’d set out to design a training programme ideally suited for me it would be NTI."

    NTI Students

Training

The Northern Training Institute provides training for gospel leaders to lead churches and train others for gospel ministry. It aims to meet the need for:

  • evangelical ministry and leadership training in the north of England
  • a non-residential programme of study that integrates theology with practical involvement in mission and ministry

Students of the Northern Training Institute can combine training with work in a local church and maybe also secular employment. This should enable students to integrate their theological study with involvement in ministry and alleviate some of the problems of funding.

The Northern Training Institute comprises:

  • two residential weeks a year of intensive lectures and seminars with occasional guest lecturers
  • a monthly day of seminars with students presenting papers for discussion and critique
  • guided reading

The guided reading is geared to covering the information required for a good understanding the syllabus. The seminars are geared to developing the ability to reflect theologically. The residential study weeks will normally provide an introduction to the coming programme of guided reading. Residentials are held in September and February. Seminar days are held in October, November, February, March, April, May and June.

The seminar days take an inter-disciplinary to one topic. For example, a day on ‘justification’ might include papers on righteousness in the Old Testament, an exegesis of Romans 3, justification in Luther’s thought, an assessment of the New Perspective, the pastoral implications of justification and so on. Past topics have includes issues like atonement, marriage, justification, mission after Christendom, sanctification, urbanisation and the incarnation. One seminar day each year is set aside for students to present a paper reflecting theologically on some aspect of their ministry.

The Northern Training Institute syllabus is divided into three streams:

  • biblical studies
  • doctrine and church history
  • mission and ministry

Click here for a full syllabus.

Qualifications

Students successfully completing two years of study are awarded a Northern Training Institute Certificate in Christian Ministry and students completing three years of study are awarded a Diploma in Christian Ministry. These qualification are currently not accredited by an external institution.

Students

Students are expected to set aside 10-15 hours a week (a day and an evening or two days) in addition to the residential weeks. Students can opt to study with the Institute for one, two or three years.

Students must be graduates (of any discipline) or have significant experience of gospel ministry. All applicants must be commended by their local church.

The Northern Training Institute:

  • is Reformed and evangelical, believing in the sovereign grace of God in salvation, the inerrancy of Scripture and substitutionary atonement
  • emphasises participation in a local church, and the integration of theology and practice
  • subscribes to the doctrinal basis of Affinity

Students need to accept that this is who we are.

Fees

2009-2010
£675 (can be paid in two instalments of £350 and £325)

2010-2011
£700 (can be paid in two instalments of £350)

Applicants should submit the following:

  • a CV or summary of their ministry experience and previous training
  • a letter saying why they want to study with the Northern Training Institute
  • the contact details of their church leader

Please send these to:

215 Sharrowvale Road, Sheffield, S11 8ZB, United Kingdom

or

info [at] northerntraininginstitute [dot] org

Applicants are encouraged to make an informal approach to the Director prior to an application by calling 0114 220 3888.