growth opportunities

Hosted & Sponsored by Mesa Hills Bible Church

Stated in simple terms, the purpose of FRBI is to see God progressively glorified through the equipping of God’s people for effective service and ministry in accordance with the words the Apostle Paul wrote to young Timothy, “The things which you have heard from me . . . these entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also” (2 Tim 2:2).

All classes are held in the toppin building

at Mesa Hills Bible Church. 

Our Mission
Our mission is to provide in-depth, systematic instruction to God’s people to help them grow in a deeper knowledge of God and to serve Him as He personally leads them into service.  We aim to provide this instruction to all who sincerely desire such learning opportunities, whether male or female, always bearing in mind the biblical distinctions about male and female roles in the Body of Christ.  Our desire is to do all we can to make this instruction easy in access, as well as affordable in cost.  As fellow ministers in God’s field, we recognize the challenge of providing this kind of quality, biblical instruction that covers a wide range of learning.  As pastors and teachers who are dedicated to seeing the church fulfill God’s call, we are very concerned that sound theology oftentimes is neglected or relegated to a “merely academic” realm — and such neglect has weakened the Body of Christ.  Writer-theologian David Wells gives this reminder when he writes, “A church that neither is interested in theology nor has the capacity to think theologically is a church that will be rapidly submerged beneath the waves of modernity” (taken from “The Theologian’s Craft,” in Doing Theology in Today’s World, John D. Woodbridge and Thomas Edward McComiskey, eds. [Grand Rapids:  Zondervan, 1991], p. 191).  In view of this great call and the need of the church, FRBI has been formed to help local churches meet this need.

Our Vision
What we envision God accomplishing may be summed up in the following goals:  (1) a training program that equips God’s people for passionate and effective ministry within the local churchas God has gifted and called each believer; (2) a training program that will help godly men become skilled servants in teaching and shepherding (“apt to teach”), a key aspect of becoming well-prepared to shepherd God’s flock in eldership/leadership roles; (3) a training program that will equip men for fruitful Christian ministry at the pastoral and/or missionary level of vocational Christian service.  FRBI is especially committed to helping men gain skills in “rightly dividing the Word of Truth” so that they might become highly effective in Bible exposition and Bible teaching.  In short, we envision God setting His people on fire for service by means of the Scriptures, as they come to a fuller and greater appreciation of God’s own glory and greatness.