Serious Christian Ministries is the educational ministry of Serious Christian, Inc., a non-profit religious and educational organization (501.c.3 status pending).

Our Mission

To communicate and impart the Christian worldview through research and teaching.

Our Goals

1. 1.To lay a foundation of truth that will prepare people who do not yet believe in Jesus Christ to hear a gospel witness
   

2. 2.To equip those who believe in Jesus Christ with knowledge and understanding that will strengthen their faith and give a clearer witness
   

3. 3.To broaden the perspective of Christians, so they can see what
   Christianity means not only from the viewpoint of their own local, contemporary experience, but also from a more global and historical perspective
   

4. 4.To deepen the understanding of busy persons who don't think they have the leisure to be full-time students of Christianity, while challenging them to be lifelong learners of Christ—and thereby also deepening their personal commitment and experience of Christ
   

Our Approach

To conduct serious research and study of the Christian faith, and of the world through the eyes of Christian faith.  Specifically we direct our efforts toward:

1. ✤The Bible
   

2. We seek to teach believers how to study the Bible seriously.
   

3. To our profound discredit, few believers study the Bible at all. Biblical illiteracy reigns not only in our contemporary culture, but in the churches.
   

4. Those who do study the Bible rarely move beyond the most subjective kind of devotional reading ("What does this passage mean to me - personally - today?").
   

5. Moreover we have to use simplified contemporary translations and special interest "study" Bibles in order to keep our attention.
   

6. There’s a place for that kind of devotion, but the spiritual equivalent of white bread and jam should not be our entire diet.
   

7. The objective of our institute is to help believers move beyond the simplistic and superficial toward a more mature understanding of the Bible's message and authority, and to grasp the comprehensiveness of the biblical worldview.
   

8. ✤Essential Christian Doctrines
   

9. Research here is all the more needed because there does not seem to universal, or even wide agreement on what these doctrines are. Our focus is not so much on the question, "What can we all agree on today?" It is rather on what has been the historic witness and understanding of Christians throughout the ages, and what are the issues underlying disagreements and theological divisions.
   

10. ✤Christian History
    

11. Knowing the history of Christianity is important as an instrument for understanding its teachings. But it is even more important for the enabling believers to comprehend their larger identity in the body of Christ and the work of God in the world.  To know the story of Christ’s church in the world may not eliminate our differences, but at least it enables us to keep them in perspective.
    

12. Yet American Christians in particular don't know their own roots.  If there is anything we know less about than the Bible, it is the story of our own movement. Most of what we know seems to be based on prejudice, not fact.
    

13. We seek to tell the story of the Christian movement as a continuation of the story of God's covenant people told in the Bible, giving emphasis to key events, movements, and figures in that story.
    

14. ✤Christian Philosophy
    

15. We mean Christian philosophy in the broad sense of the term. Our primary task is to "bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ" through the study of logical and critical thinking, fundamental issues (metaphysics, epistemology, cosmology, etc.), worldviews, cultural analysis, and apologetic issues.
    

16. ✤Christian Ethics
    

17. Once again we mean this in a general sense, beginning with a study of biblical ethics, discerning basic principles, and applying biblical truth to current ethical issues of life and to various disciplines of academic study.