Innovative Thinking
In a culture in which the only constant is change, AGTS provides a cutting-edge platform where people are challenged to address current issues with creativity and innovation that requires radical dependence on the Spirit. This environment encourages students to think outside the box, allowing them to be adaptive, sensitive and relevant to the culture in which God has placed them. Such flexibility lends itself to willingness and ability to address complex issues and lead the church through deep and real change.

“Pentecostals need to ask themselves hard questions, such as ‘Are we doing anything dangerous enough that the Holy Spirit just has to show up?’ Such questions are uncomfortable, but they remind us that we are made for the edge, not for the center; the Spirit has come to send us from Jerusalem to ‘the ends of the earth’ (Acts 1:8, NIV). Our challenge is to be willing to sacrifice respectability, status and control. But it is in exactly these conditions that Pentecostals have turned to God in utter surrender and found that he is still ‘able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us’ (Eph. 3:20, NIV).

My field research has turned up many dozens of miracle stories among our younger leaders reaching out to post-Christians. Often signs and wonders have occurred after conventional methods and models have proven futile. Desperation turned to dependence, and dependence turned to power dynamics. No one becomes famous, but the hurting are being healed. God is ready to develop our full potential.”
–Dr. Earl Creps, Professor of Leadership and Spiritual Renewal, Director, D.Min. Program in Pentecostal Leadership

Faculty Mentoring
A Spirit-Filled Community
Hands-on Ministry
Spiritual Transformation