While preparing men and women for full-time Christian service is a primary goal, GBI also exists to equip believers who may not be headed for formal ministry. To accommodate students who may have divergent purposes for Bible training, the institute offers courses on both credit and audit basis.
Biblical balance is at the heart of our instruction.
Grace Bible Institute subscribes to neither an Arminian nor a Calvinistic system of theology or interpretation, preferring rather not to impose a theological grid over Biblical interpretation. The institute holds to a separatistic, fundamental stand with regard to theological and moral compromise as found in either liberal or evangelical circles. Another balanced pair of emphases at GBI are the goals of academic excellence and practical application. Our course of instruction provides the student with the solid building blocks of the Bible exegesis, offering beginning and intermediate NT Greek, beginning Hebrew and hermeneutics. Yet, throughout the curriculum stress is placed on deriving legitimate contemporary ap plication justified through a grammatical-historical understanding of the text.