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We focus on knowing God’s Head and God’s Heart - - in BALANCE … not one over the other but one
with the other!

Remember, “Truth out of balance leads to heresy!”

➢ If you can translate your learning into love, your schooling into service, and your academics
into actions, you’re on target!
THE UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE

Most folks know that “Freshman”, “Sophomore”, “Junior”, “Senior”, and “Graduates” are the student ranks
of higher education. Community colleges offer associate programs that lead to a Diploma. Local and State
Colleges offer Associate, and Bachelor degrees. Universities offer both Baccalaureate degrees and graduate
programs that lead to a Master’s and/or Doctoral degree.

A university is usually bigger than a college and is often made up of several colleges on a single campus.
If a college is not a subdivision of a university, it sometimes grows and become a university, so that today
both “College” and “University” are used somewhat interchangeably. However, many individual state
departments of education reserve an institution’s use of “university” for a school that offers secular
academic curriculum and degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

A religious school that offers masters and doctoral degrees is called a seminary. So, seminaries are the
universities of religious education. But they can also offer undergraduate studies.
True Hope Bible Institute is both: A distance learning formatted Bible College offering undergraduate’s
studies and a Theological Seminary providing graduate programs, so that we offer degrees on all levels.
DISTANCE LEARNING CONSIDERATIONS

Considerable time can be used up getting to and from a classroom, and more time can be consumed
assembling, hearing comments about the weather, the latest gossip, non-applying announcements, and other
sidelines. Then, the teacher might be sick and not show up.

Traditional theological education can tend to isolate students in a cloistered environment that detaches them
from involvement in vital Gospel work among sinners. Thus, graduates become groomed as “keepers of the
aquarium”, rather than “fishers of men”.
IN THE CLASSROOM -VS- IN THE HOME or OFFICE

Would you rather repose in an artificial cubicle a few years and get a traditional degree, or pursue a relevant
active ministry, and get a non-traditional degree from True Hope Bible Institute at the same time for about
ten percent of the cost?
Learning is no longer limited to the old fashioned four walls, because God has raised up a number of worthy
educational resources such as True Hope Bible Institute.

You can receive a legitimate degree without stepping foot on a college campus or into a university
classroom. It’s possible to earn your accredited Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctoral degree right in the comfort
of your own home. What difference does it make WHERE you read a book? The key to retaining
information is repetition. But a classroom lecture is usually said and gone; whereas the study books of the
True Hope Bible Institute can be reviewed as often as you wish or need.
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