28/06/2015
Welcome to the ISTA! Here you’ll meet people from many lands who have one passion in common: the mission evangelization worldwide for the glory of God! ISTA was formed with a perspective of moving towards mission-evangelism methodology. This methodology involves mission oriented programs to enhance the spread of the gospel to the masses.
The statements of purpose below were arrived from both theological and missional analysis. A kingdom perspective moves us towards a more comprehensive understanding of our vision and mission. It also provides for a missional analysis of the world’s greatest needs and opportunities, suggesting that faithfulness to Christ and the mission of God mandates a more transformational approach to our scope and programs.
International Senate for Theological Accreditation (ISTA) is a private Christian Accreditation dedicated to providing a professional, legal and relevant educational accrediting service to Christian Universities, Seminaries and Bible Colleges in internationally. International Senate for Theological Accreditation is one of the largest accreditation agencies world-wide and currently accredits Christian Universities, Theological Seminaries and Bible Schools in overall.
We accredit schools of all sizes no matter where they are in the world and provide assistance whether they are on-campus or Distance education Programme.
We are aware that there is a growing trend for local Church leaders and pastors to train and equip their own members in typical Church-based settings. International Senate for Theological Accreditation respects the autonomy of the local Church and are willing to assist Church leaders in their desire to equip their own people at a local level.
Ephesians 4:7-26 – But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.” (Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.