Vineyard Leadership Institute (VLI) was created to integrate hands-on training, ministry experience, spiritual formation, and academic understanding with an uncompromising commitment to excellence in biblical-theological, ministerial and spiritual-formational training.
The instructors are experienced pastors: recognized theologians who are committed to Vineyard-style ministry and who are experts…
We have a mandate from Jesus to disciple the nations. This means we evangelize, plant, and pastor churches, and that we raise up other leaders to do the same. How and where will these emerging leaders be trained? The track record of traditional theological institutions that are abstracted from the life of the local church has not been good. However, at the Vineyard Leadership Institute we have…
An Inside Look at VLI with Steve Robbins, VLI Director
Our mission is to train emerging Vineyard leaders to become effective leaders of Christian ministries. We want not only to give people the Biblical and theological material they need—the sort of thing they might get at a Christian college or seminary—but we also want to make sure it is integrated with actual practice and spiritual…
Courses are taught during the weeknight class or weekend intensive sessions.
- The Pentateuch and Former Prophets
- Latter Prophets 1
- Latter Prophets II
- The Writings
- Interpreting Scripture
- Systematic Theology I
- Systematic Theology II
- History of the Christian Church and Theology
- The Synoptic Gospels
- Acts and Missions
- Pauline Literature and Theology
- Johannine…
