lititz institute

Enhancing and Assisting Your Spiritual Development

OUR VISION

To serve God in His kingdom development by helping individual Church members develop and mature in their spirit-person, and to help individuals unite with all other Church members to serve God corporately.

OUR MISSION

To Individual Members of the Church

Through our learning events, videos, and literature, we will provide the people of the Church with our understanding of God’s processes for growing the strength and abilities of their spirit-person in the spiritual realm. Successful growth only occurs as a person begins relating to and communicating with God through many experiences over months and years. Growth is not learned, just as natural growth is not learned, but we can observe what assists it.

God’s goals are set in the kingdom work He has planned for every person. These goals differ for each person and come to fruition by experiencing an increasingly close relationship with God over time. God gives all people particular talents and potential to acquire specific skills. He looks at each of us to see whether we maximize the development of what we have been given for His kingdom. Our vision is to present only material commonly understood by two or more people to be well-supported by Bible scripture.

To God’s Church

Just as our bodies are well coordinated by the nervous system and a variety of hormonal messengers, the Body of the Lord Jesus must identify and develop God’s provisions for communications between members in the spiritual realm. Through scientific methods, we will research processes that will be easily implemented to enhance the coordination of individuals within the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.

OUR CURRENT STRATEGIES AND PLANS

We live in an era of stunted spiritual growth in the individual members of the Church in the United States. This stunted growth results from multiple factors, including the failure of the Church to understand and represent God’s revelation of His character and abilities in the sciences and associated technological developments. This needs reversal.

The local churches have failed to equip the individuals in the Body for various reasons that need to be understood and reversed through well-researched responses.

In the last century, the world system has triumphed over the Church in the United States, and the Church has not used the weapons God has provided for it. Warriors in the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ need training and understanding to restore the Church to combat this unchecked world system through the development and deployment of God’s host and His people.

Lititz Institute will research and develop responses in these three needful areas of Church function.

our beliefs

THE WORD

We believe that the Scriptures in their autographa are the literal, inspired Word of God. The Holy Spirit inspired men such that they all used their own language and expressions, but the result is as if God had dictated them. There is no error in them, and they are sufficient for faith and practice.

god

We believe in the eternal triune God —God, the Father; God, the Son; and God, the Holy Spirit.

creation

We believe that God created the heavens and the earth, including man, and that His creation was very good.

man

Man by a free will act, chose to disobey God; He thus pronounced a curse on all creation—this includes sin, disease, and death. This curse has caused an unbridgeable chasm between God and man.

jesus

God, the Son, named Jesus, was born of a virgin and lived a sinless life. The doctrine “The Hypostatic Union” states that Jesus is “undiminished deity and full humanity united in one Person, without confusion, forever.” He willingly gave His life, with His undeserved punishment substituting for man’s deserved penalty, thus providing atonement for sin. He died on the cross then was raised again on the third day, ascended into heaven, and is seated on the right hand of the Father.

salvation

God offers as a free gift eternal life to those who put their trust in Jesus’ atonement. This is a free gift of grace; we can do nothing to earn or deserve it.

holy spirit

God, the Holy Spirit, convicts man of sin and draws him to God. He indwells all who have accepted God’s gift of salvation.

the church

The Church was born on the day of Pentecost, ten days after Jesus’ ascension. It is made up of Jews and Gentiles, with the Gentiles being grafted into the olive tree which is composed of Jews in its natural form. The Church has been commissioned to go into the entire world to preach the Gospel and to teach the nations.


christ's return

Toward the end of this age Jesus will receive His church (His bride) in heaven where the marriage supper of the Lamb will occur. During this period, God will return in His dealings to Israel and fulfill His promises to her. Following this period, Jesus will return to the earth with His saints to set up His kingdom. He will rule for 1000 years, after which Satan will be defeated finally.

eternal state

He will then bring in the eternal state — with those who have believed in His name spending eternity in His presence and with those who have rejected him spending eternity in the lake of fire and separated from God eternally.

Lititz Founded in 1756 Photo

our history

The beginning

Lititz, Pennsylvania was founded by Count Nicholas Ludwig Von Zinzendorf, a founder of the modern Moravian Church, in 1755 when he accepted a land grant from John and Anna Klein of 491 acres. Lititz was named after a castle in North Eastern Bohemia used successfully as a refuge where early Moravian followers of martyred John Hus successfully sheltered in 1456.

The beginning

Lititz, Pennsylvania was founded by Count Nicholas Ludwig Von Zinzendorf, a founder of the modern Moravian Church, in 1755 when he accepted a land grant from John and Anna Klein of 491 acres. Lititz was named after a castle in North Eastern Bohemia used successfully as a refuge where early Moravian followers of martyred John Hus successfully sheltered in 1456.

The place

Herrnhut in Saxony holds a prominent place in Protestant history, founded by Count Zinzendorf on his land in 1722 to allow religious refugees to settle. The community birthday in 1727 the 100-year prayer watch and the Holy Spirit descended in power with a revival marked by the palpable presence of the spirit over a prolonged time.

The call

In 2001 the Holy Spirit indicated we should purchase a house which was directly across East Main Street, Lititz from the Moravian Church. The Spirit indicated we would send embers all over the world from our work there. In this house we found a prayer portal, and it was here that God refined our understanding of how people are to master the process of being led by His Spirit. We wrote and published the first of several books in this house and held small fellowship and teaching groups around the table of fellowship. Several other books have followed and more recently the Spirit has been giving instruction in these books about the fuel for sustained revival, which will result in a rich and bountiful final harvest for the lord God.

The books are a result of the rich history of Herrnhut, Lititz, and the dispersion of Protestantism via Herrnhut to the New World; Wesley, among many, were instruments. Church leaders exhort people to love the Lord, to worship Him, and to place Him first. All is needful, commitment is essential. No one can change to this profound level without a process. Lititz Institute is the main vehicle for our teaching about the Biblical processes one must use to bring about the deep change needed to be used by God in His service. We are to be transformed by the renewing of our mind and the purification of our heart to be Holy unto the Lord. During this time of change we must learn how to take authority over evil spirits; this requires earning the authority from our relationship with God.