真道培训学院持守历代大公教会正统教义信条，以《西敏信条Westminster Confession of Faith》、《西敏大、小教理问答Westminster Long and Shorter Catechism》为信仰准则。同时这一信仰准则也是教师授课的信仰守则。真道培训学院继承持守“中国家庭教会”立场，对一切不以耶稣基督为教会唯一元首的所谓“教会”不予相交。
真道培训学院成立的宗旨，是以圣经真道来装备中国教会的传道人和圣徒，使他们在至圣的真道上造就自己，为从前一次交付圣徒的真道竭力争辩，驳斥一切异端假道，以上帝那纯正话语的规模来建立基督荣耀的身体-教会。
历史的教训告诉我们：当圣经真理没有被持守和正确宣讲时，教会 落在黑暗之中。中世纪教会有一千年之久，被称为“中世纪的黑暗时代”，正是因为圣经真理被遮蔽和谬讲。十六世纪，上帝兴起马丁路德和约翰加尔文等改教家，带来举世闻名的“宗教改革运动”，使教会重新恢复高举圣经真理的教义 ——唯独圣经、唯独恩典、唯独因信称义、唯独基督是中心、唯独上帝得荣耀，带来教会的复兴与更新。纯正福音信仰的基督教会，都是“宗教改革”的子孙。然而，今日的教会也仿佛回到了中世纪，真道不彰，假道横行，世俗歪风吹进教会，人本主义充斥于教会讲台和信徒生活中。教会唯有回归圣经，才能避免假道迷惑、正本清源、归回正途。
真道培训学院以圣经真理和正统传承的改革宗神学来装备众教会的牧者、同工。也为正在建立教会体制各个改革宗教会系统培训牧师、长老、执事等圣职人员和同工。这是上帝赋予我们的使命和异象。中国家庭教会长期以来因信仰不自由而缺乏对传道人系统的神学装备，致使许多传道人对整本圣经缺乏系统理解，无法按着圣经真理建立教会、造就信徒、抵挡异端，因此我们的主要事工是培训中国家庭教会的传道人和同工。在北美，我们也培训带职同工,如教会的长老执事和主日学老师等。
我们的事工从2005年开始在北美和中国开设神学课程。十几年来一直坚持这样的事奉理念与原则：
任何讨神喜悦的事奉必定是扎根于教会的事奉。真道历届懂事和任课教师都是教会的牧师或是改革宗教会的正式会员，没有不是教会成员的所谓“自由传道者”。神学培训不只是知识的传递，神学培训机构与被培训的教会众肢体是血肉相连、生命相交的肢体关系。因此我们坚持面授为主的原则，不管多么困难，我们都坚持与被培训的肢体见面授课，以便与他们有生命生活的分享与相交。
课程设置兼备教义的正统性并具有一定的学术性，因此历年来真道对任课教师的挑选极其谨慎。同时在传讲改革宗神学真理的同时也鼓励学员按照真理来牧养和治理所服事的教会，或建立教会。
为了确保培训质量，真道培训学院一直坚持团队事奉的原则。每一次培训至少有两位老师，一位任课老师，一位助教老师。助教老师负责行政联络、报名注册、组织小组讨论，帮助任课讲师批改作业、考卷等。这样才能确保作业与考核制度、小组讨论与问题解答能够有效的实施。每一次培训结束时都有总结讲评见证会，作为本次培训的收口。这些行之有效方法确保了培训的质量与果效。
Classification of the Ministry: Theological Training
Goals of the Ministry: To establish theological training programs for the purpose of equipping God’s servants with a solid understanding of biblical truth in order to strengthen and support the Church. TWTC works in partnership with the Church to bring the gospel to the ends of the earth.
Characteristics of the Ministry: Mainland Chinese churches have often not been able to provide systematic theological training for their pastors and evangelists because of governmental restrictions. Many church leaders therefore lack a systematic understanding of the Scriptures and are unable to work effectively to establish churches, build up the believers, and withstand heresies. For this reason, TWTC programs emphasize basic theological training, including systematic theology, church history, hermeneutics, homiletics, the theology of pastoring, and biblically-based counseling.
Specific Objectives and Scope of the Ministry:
Asia: To provide training primarily to full-time ministers and lay coworkers
North America: To provide training primarily to lay coworkers who have a burden for Chinese churches (individuals who will provide long term support to a church in their hometown or another location China); to organize discipleship training conferences according to the needs of local churches Resource Development: Production, translation, and publication of teaching materials and theological literature; production of tapes, videos, and CDs
The Triune God: We believe in the one true God who exists eternally as a trinity of three divine Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is independently existent, unchanging, and all-powerful. He is faithful, good, merciful, holy, just, full of wisdom, and glorious; He is forever worthy of praise, worship, love, and honor from all humanity.
Jesus Christ: Our Lord Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, the second Person of the Trinity, of one substance with the Father and equal with Him in power and glory. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, fully God and fully human, the only mediator between God and humanity. He was crucified on the cross for our sin, was buried, and rose again on the
third day. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right side of the Father interceding for us. He will come again to judge the world at the end of time.
The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity, of one substance with the Father and the Son, and equal with them in power and glory. The Holy Spirit applies to each believer the work of salvation that the Son has accomplished on the cross. As the believer is being sanctified, the Holy Spirit teaches truth, grants peace, produces holiness, intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express, and is another Counselor like the Lord Jesus.
Scripture: The entire Bible – consisting of the 39 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament – is inspired by God and is inerrant and infallible, the highest standard and authority of Christian faith and life. The testimony of any person or church must submit to the authority of the Bible. All arguments concerning the faith, every direction of the Church or any Christian organization, all Christian traditions, personal teaching, visions, and dreams should all consider the Bible as the highest judge.
Sin and Salvation. The first parents of the human race sinned and caused all of humanity to fall into sin. Fallen humans die in transgression and sin, having lost the essence of real free will, namely the will to choose God freely. We are saved by grace through faith alone; our good works do not in any way bring us salvation. We therefore firmly believe that all who have been chosen by God the Father through Jesus Christ, who have been born again by the Holy Spirit, who have come to repentance and been declared righteous by God, should pursue holiness in grace. Although never perfect, they will not fall from God’s grace but will be protected by God, persist to the end, and be forever saved.
The Church. Christ is the head of the church, and the church is the body of Christ and the temple of the eternal God. The church is established on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets and ultimately upon the Bible itself. The Bible is the basis and standard of the direction, teaching, and governance of the church. A true church must faithfully proclaim the truth as revealed in the Bible, faithfully minister the sacraments of the church (baptism and communion); faithfully exercise church discipline, and move toward maturity, having a deep love for one another, a healthy governance, and an outreach to nonbelievers. All born-again believers share a common bond through their union with Christ, who is the Head of the church, and with the church, which is the Body of Christ. Believers should be willing to submit to the church, participate in service, pursue holiness, glorify Christ, be made complete in the Body of Christ, and together, with one heart and mind, build up Christ’s glorious church.
The only real purpose for serving God is to glorify God’s name in all the earth. The Church is God’s glorious representative in the world. All service that pleases God should be rooted in the Church. TWTC, as a theological training organization, is rooted in the Church, is connected to the Church, serves the Church, and, at the same time, needs participation, support, and loving care from the Church and from individual brothers and sisters. This is our conviction and the ideal by which our ministry operates.Therefore, the priorities of our personal service must flow from a pursuit to know God – having a healthy and mature spiritual life; a determination to know the truth – living a godly life in reverent fear; and a clear understanding of the commission God has given us – a call to authentic and effective service.