The man behind the message
A lifetime of ministry.
One transforming truth.
For nearly fifty years, Mike Atkins has served the Church around the world. The Life Paradigm is the distilled heart of what he has spent that lifetime learning—and longing to give away.
Meet Mike Atkins
A teacher formed in the Word—and among people.
Mike Atkins has served as a pastor, missionary, and teacher, carrying the message of Christ from great cathedrals to dirt-floored villages across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
He is the president and founder of Mike Atkins Teaching Ministries. A magna cum laude graduate of Boston University, Mike also served for twenty years on the board of the Corrie ten Boom Museum in Holland.
What marks Mike’s teaching is not theory alone, but a lifetime spent in Scripture and among people. The Life Paradigm brings those decades into one clear invitation: to move from striving to rest, from performance to Presence, and from trying to be like Jesus to letting Jesus be Himself through you.
The heart of the teaching
Not more striving. A different source.
The Life Paradigm is a 19-part video journey drawn from nearly fifty years of teaching and pastoral ministry. Across 67 sessions, Mike explores what changes when the Christian life is no longer treated as something we must produce through our own effort.
Nearly 50 years
A lifetime in the message
Teaching and pastoral ministry across the world.
19 episodes
A complete journey
A clear progression through the central teaching.
67 sessions
Room to go deeper
For sustained learning, reflection, and return.
The journey
The work of a lifetime, gathered into one course.
This teaching is meant to be lived with, not rushed through. Its episodes create room for the message to be heard, considered, and returned to—personally, with a small group, or across a church or ministry.
At its center is a simple but foundational shift: the Christian life is not merely a life we attempt to imitate. It is the life of Christ expressed through us.
Begin the journey
See the teaching for yourself.
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