GST Faculty

A Community of Learners and Disciples

We are here to teach you how to ask good questions; how to be curious and virtuous in your pursuit of knowledge; to equip you with the skills of ministry and scholarship; and to serve as models of success and mentors for your journey. At ACU, you learn how to listen and learn from those different from you and with whom you may disagree. Most of all, you can take what you learn here to practically share it through word and action with a hurting world.

The mission of the Graduate School of Theology is to equip men and women for effective missional leadership for ministry in all its forms and to provide strong academic foundations for theological inquiry. Within this framework, the Graduate School of Theology sets its purpose:

• to prepare men and women for effective work in a variety of ministry settings;
• to provide specific ministry skills in the areas of preaching, teaching, worship, missions, pastoral counseling, congregational ministry, youth and family ministry, children’s ministry, church leadership, spiritual formation and program development;
• to provide adequate academic foundations to students in various theological disciplines, including textual studies, biblical languages, church history and historical theology; and
• to provide an academic and interpersonal environment in which theological disciplines can be integrated with the students’ ministry skills and their personal spiritual development.