Welcome to GATC. You've chosen spiritual academic excellence and spiritual growth fully integrated into life by choosing GATC. In GATC you will be challenged by spiritual academic rigors, sharpened through personal skill development, strengthened through spiritual and physical training, and encouraged by life-long relationships. Each of the courses provide key elements of GATC life provides a platform for God's grace as He guides you into His full desire for your life. Here is the programme that is designed for your growth spiritually while at GATC.
    Gideon Army Theological College, Ibadan is an institution set up for the training of well qualified ministers of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and other leaders in the body of Christ. The College is located in Ibadan, Capital of Oyo State of Nigeria. The Institution temporarily occupies a piece of land at New Generation- Seed Evangelical Ministry Premises, Iyana Barack Bus Stop, Ojoo – Iwo Road, Express Way, Ibadan.
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• DEGEREE IN VIEW
• (a) Degree in Theology  (B.Th)
• (b) Diploma in Theology (Dip.Th)
• (c) Certificate in Theology (Cert.Th)

OBJECTIVES

1. The purpose of the programme is both academic and spiritual to the end that truth may be discovered, established, preserved and passed to faithful people;
2. At the same time, it serves the practical purpose of preparing students to be good and profitable ministers of God in moral and proficiency.
3. The entire programme is aimed at training men and women to be competent in teaching and preaching the Good News in this contemporary world

DOCTRINAL BASIS OF THE COLLEGE

Teachings Concerning God

The unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the Godhead. We believe God reveals Himself in His creation. We also believe He reveal Himself in History. In these He points to a meaning and purpose in creation. We also believe God has made Himself known in an intimate saving way in His chosen people, the Israelites. And lastly, He uniquely reveals Himself when Jesus Christ was born. Through Christ, His Life, death and resurrection God revealed His limitless love and purpose for all men.

• Teaching Concerning Jesus Christ

The witness of the scripture is that Christ lived and was God before He came to earth as a man. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin, the Son of God, and the Son of man. He was truly man. Christ came to earth to be the Saviour of mankind. He is the only Saviour and salvation is through faith in Him. He (Jesus Christ) is the highest revelation of God. He shows God to be a God of love, a God of forgiveness to those who seek His forgiveness.

• The Holy Spirit: His Person and Work

The person of the Holy Spirit is God in action. The Holy Spirit power is given to the church corporately and through individual workers. The Holy Spirits convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. The necessity of the work of the Holy Spirit in the new births, and His indwelling in the believer for sanctification and that He operates effectively and with power through the church as God’s ordained institution. He enables the believers to live a holy life, to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ to have “Power to Minister”, to bear fruit of the spirit, manifest gift, talent and skill.

• The Holy Scriptures

The Bible is the inspired word of God. It is God’s own word to us, and the only authoritative rule of Christian faith and practice. Its divine inspiration is to be taken as meaning that the scriptures are God-breathed. The whole of the Bible sets forth that which we need to know about God, what He requires, and His work for the saving of men.

• The Teachings about Mankind

The creation story portrays a grandeur that cannot be classified as any ancient legend of creation. The guilty and depranty of human nature in consequence of the fall. The bible distinctly states that God creates man in His own image. This would indicate there was no sin in the original man. He had to do with and have the power to follow God’s command or to do other-wise. Adam and Eve chose a voluntary violation of God’s expressed command from this point of man’s existence forward there in the struggle between man’s desire for fellowship with his creator and yet a natural bent towards evil.

• The Teaching of Regeneration

The doctrine of regeneration, or the new birth, is basic to all the teaching of the church of God. A two-fold change is necessary in order that a person may obtain salvation: there must be a change in position, and in the nature of man. Firstly, the change in the position is a judicial act wherein man is given a place of standing again before God. Justification means man has becomes a free person and is a friend of God. Secondly, man’s nature must undergo a radical change from that which is absolutely evil to that which is positively good. This process is known as regeneration or the “New Birth”. This change is experienced through and only by the power of God. With right of choice as a free, moral agency, man must express repentance toward God and exercise faith in Jesus Christ.

• The Teachings Concerning the Church

The Church is Christ’s body of people called out to live as God’s own. It includes all true Christians. As Christ’s body, the church responds to Him as its head and devoted to life with Him. As the Lord’s living temple, it brings together in spirit those who know what it means to worship God in spirit and in truth

• The Personal return of the Lord Jesus

The Lord Jesus Christ is coming again bodily for the millennial rule on earth.