We want to see a dynamic transformational church in every village and colony of every town and city of India.

Mission

HBI exists “to give every person an opportunity to hear, understand and respond to the Gospel and be discipled into communities of believers within their own context, so that, Christ is radiated in everything they do.

God-Focused

It is not about us. HBI Ministries are about God. All we do is to be God-centered, God-directed, & God-focused, bringing glory to Him above all else. We are eager to know God’s presence, hear His voice and follow after Him. (Psalm 63:1-4) We want to make God the center of all our attention and endeavors. (Mark 12:29-30; Deuteronomy 5:6, 11; Psalm 145).

Word-Based

We accept the Bible as the authoritative source that sets the standard and provides the foundational principles for all that we do. We desire to be transformed, taught, renewed, challenged, strengthened & empowered individually and corporately by seeing God’s word rightly applied in our lives and ministries by the Holy Spirit.

Christ-Minded

We are committed to developing passionate followers of Jesus Christ. Christ is both our example and strength as we pursue integrity, excellence, faith, hope and love in our life and work. As followers of Christ, we strive to be a transforming community dedicated to Christ like love, servant-hood, holiness, and obedience to the Father. We believe that following Christ’s example means sacrifice, sometimes hardship and possibly even death.

Mission-Driven

We are committed to the urgent and unfinished task of making disciples of Jesus Christ in all nations. We are committed to a mission that flows out of God’s love for the world and our compassion for people. It is our desire to actually see the kingdom of God become a reality in India and beyond. In doing this we desire to work in loving, trusting, interdependent relationships with churches and other partners who share our vision.

Spirit-Empowered

We confess our dependency on the Holy Spirit to control and empower our lives and ministry so we reflect His courage, righteousness and fruit in our relationship at home, society, ministry and church. As we experience God’s leadership and power, we exhibit the fruit of the Spirit in all of our relationships in our homes, churches, organization and in our communities.

Church-Centered

HBI as an organization exists to serve local congregations. We believe that the local church is the primary instrument God uses to accomplish his purposes in the world. Therefore, we are committed to fostering church planting movements, equipping local churches to become healthy, growing, and multiplying and mobilizing churches to accomplish the Great Commission.

People-Sensitive

We believe that people matter to God. Therefore all people matter to us. We want to serve people from all communities, races, castes, classes, genders and languages. We are inclusive, caring and relevant without compromising the principles of the Word and the uniqueness of Jesus Christ.

I The Bible, consisting of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God, a super naturally given revelation from God Himself, concerning man, his nature, need, duty, and destiny. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are without error or mis-statement in their moral and spiritual teachings and record of historical facts. They are without error or defect of any kind.

II There is one God, eternally existing and manifesting Himself to us in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

III Our Lord Jesus was supernaturally conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, linear descendant of David. He lived and taught and wrought mighty works and wonders and signs exactly as is recorded in the four Gospels. He was put to death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate and was buried. God raised from the dead his body that had been nailed to the cross. The Lord Jesus, after His crucifixion, showed Himself to His disciples, appearing unto them by the space of forty days. After this, the Lord Jesus ascended into Heaven, and the Father caused Him to sit at the authority and power and dominion and every name that is named; not only in the World, but also in that which is to come; and put all things in subjection under His feet and gave Him to be head over all things to the church.

IV The Lord Jesus, before His incarnation, existed in the form of God, and of His own choice laid aside His divine glory and took upon Himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. In His pre-existent state, He was with God and was God. He is a divine person possessed of all the attributes of Deity and should be worshipped as God by Angels and Men. "In Him dwelleth all the fullness of Godhead bodily." All the words that He spoke during His earthly life were the Words of God. There is absolutely no error of any kind in them; and by the Words of Jesus Christ the words of all other teachers must be tested.

V The Lord Jesus became, in every respect, a real man, and was fully God, possessing of all the essential characteristics of human nature yet without sin.

VI By His death upon the cross, the Lord Jesus made a perfect atonement for sin, by which the wrath of God against sinners is appeased and a ground furnished upon which God can deal in mercy with sinners. He redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse in our place. He who Himself was absolutely without sin was made to be sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. The Lord Jesus is coming again to this earth personally, bodily, and visibly. The return of our Lord is the blessed hope of the believer and in it God's purposes of Grace toward mankind will find their consummation.

VII The Holy Spirit is a person and is possessed of all distinctly divine attributes. He is God.

VIII Man was created in the image of God, after His likeness, but the whole human race fell in the first Adam. All, until they accept the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior are lost, darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, hardened in heart, morally and spiritually dead through trespasses and sins. They cannot see, nor enter the Kingdom of God until they are born again of the Holy Spirit.

IX Men are justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Christ and upon the simple and single condition of faith in Him who shed His blood and are born again by the quickening, renewing, cleaning work of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God.

X All those who received Jesus Christ as their Savior and their Lord, become children of God and receive eternal life. They become heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ and confess Him as Savior and Lord before their fellowmen. At death, their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness, and at the Second Coming of Christ, their bodies shall be raised and transformed into the likeness of His glorious body.

XI All those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eternity exist in a state of conscious, endless torment and anguish in the lake of fire.

XII The church consists of all those who, in this present dispensation, truly believe on Jesus Christ. It is the body and Bride of Christ which Christ loves and for which He has given Himself.

XIII There is a personal devil, a being of great cunning and power, "the Prince of the power of the air," "the Prince of this world," and "the god of this age." He can exert vast power only so far as God suffers him to do so. He shall ultimately be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and shall be tormented day and night forever.

Dear Friends,

We are living in a period of great receptivity to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ! It is exciting to live in this era where the opportunities are boundless to demonstrate the love and truth of our Lord Jesus Christ. People are responding to the Gospel all over the world especially in the nation of India. It is very encouraging to be part of what the Lord is doing in India. God has called us to an awesome task of winning people and creating an awareness of how they can live in a dynamic relationship with Christ.

Hindustan Bible Institute & College has been in existence since 1952 and it was specifically founded for the purpose of reaching the unreached people of India through the development of indigenous leadership in the context of nationalization. In transition from Colonialism to the new era of nationalization, the Church was challenged with the need for a large number of leaders to fill the responsibility God was passing on to the national Church. Our commitment is to build transformational leaders to disciple our nation.

Over the sixty years, God has helped us to understand the process of leadership development. We have formal, non-formal, informal and cross cultural training program offered through both HBI Chennai and our 7 Regional training centers all over the nation. A few years ago God brought to our attention the need to develop next generation transformational leaders so that the children, Teens and young people can be developed as transformational leaders. So we are also working on developing next gen. transformational leaders through Schools, orphanages, Child development centers and equipping of “trainers of trainers”.

We are so thankful to the Lord for what He has done through the ministries of HBI. In the last 60 years God has helped us graduate over 9,500 men and women, plant over 4,500 churches, disciple over 350,000 people, equip and envision over 100,000 pastors, church planters and Christian workers. We are thankful to the Lord for giving us opportunities to share the Gospel with over 3 million people. Praise the Lord!

Our vision is to see a dynamic transformational worshipping community in every village and colony of every town and city of India.

As we continue to trust the Lord and watch Him do great and wonderful things, we ask you to continue to pray for us and support our ministries to help us accomplish the vision through the development of men and women who are called to the task of fulfilling the mission of God.

Praying for you and may the Lord bless you.

Rev. Dr. Paul R Gupta
Chairman

Board of Directors

This is the highest Administrative Body consisting of 18 members from all over India from various professions. Policy decisions are made by this body and they are the sole custodian of the purpose, the vision and the values of HBI. They meet at least three to four times a year.

Administrative Leaders Team

The Administrative Leaders team consists of Directors of different departments headed by the President & Director. It is an administrative body that executes the strategies to fulfill the purpose and vision of HBI. The team meets every Wednesday for prayer, reporting and planning.

College Academic Council

This is an Advisory Body that deals with the issues, proposals and guidelines relating to academic activities.

Team of Faculty Members

All the faculty members meet once a month to discuss the various concerns of the academic affairs, students’ life and activities.