Grace Theological College
The knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness
Our Story
We are New Zealand's only Bible college that holds to the historic reformed confessions. We are also fully committed to engaging the world with the good news about Jesus Christ for the salvation of sinners.
Theologically astute New Zealanders had known for many years that our country needed its own Bible college committed to the historic reformed confessions. This longing became a reality in 1995 when Grace Theological College was established.
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From that dream came a non-denominational charitable trust which established what is now GTC. Based on the covenantal theology of the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF), our teachers must subscribe the WCF, the Thirty-Nine Articles of Anglicanism, or the 1689 London Baptist Confession.
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Today, we meet in our own building with our own theological library. We offer students from all around NZ the option to study in person or online.
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Our Commitment
We are committed to teaching solid, biblical truths that will equip pastors, missionaries, and all kinds of Christians for a lifetime of ministry.
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Our theology is shaped by the Westminster Confession (1646) although we collaborate across denominations. Trustees and teachers must subscribe to either the Westminster Confession, London Baptist (1689) Confession, or the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion (1536).
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GTC graduates serve as pastors, church-planters, missionaries, university workers, doctors, farmers, lawyers, IT specialists, builders, and many other jobs. Their time at GTC has helped them to see that all of life is ministry and the mission-field is wherever God places you.
Our Goal
Our overwhelming desire is to see God worshipped throughout the earth.
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We believe that one way that we can help do this is through reformed theological education. Reformed theology exalts God as sovereign, his electing love as unconditional, and his grace as unstoppable.
We especially desire to see men trained to be ministers of the gospel, so that a new generation of faithful servant leaders would be prepared to carry the gospel into our world.
