Our mission is to produce godly, motivated students for a life-long ministry through the local church. Students will be equipped with an understanding of the Bible, theology, and ministry and will integrate that understanding with practical skills that they might reach out to the lost worldwide and train and motivate others to do the same. In Christian circles we tend to distinguish between that which is academic and that which is spiritual. Often we have the impression that if one is academic, then one will lack the spiritual dimension.
Academia tends to be relegated to the illusive, dark tower of the irrelevant.
Certainly, if we define academia as the process by which an institution prepares aggressive leadership for church-related ministries, the above characterization would be in error as regards the Baptist Bible Graduate School of Theology. The academic philosophy of the Graduate School is balanced between the acquisition of scriptural knowledge and the practical application of that knowledge. The faculty not only brings a level of scholarship to the classroom, but they also bring their church-related experience. The academic philosophy of the Graduate School should not be underestimated nor taken for granted. Brueggemann has chronicled a shift away from the philosophy among conservative institutions where attention is no longer given to the difficult work of exegesis.