Malawi Assemblies of God University exists to provide leaders with quality and innovative tertiary education that is transformational and spirit empowered with global relevance based on biblical principles. Established in 2013, the University is founded on the principle that serious and sustained discourse among people promotes intellectual, ethical and spiritual understanding. As MAG University, we embody this principle in the diversity of our students, faculty, and staff, our commitment to justice and the common good, our intellectual openness, and our international character.

Vision and Mission of Institution

An academic community dedicated to creating and communicating knowledge, MAG University provides excellent undergraduate, graduate and professional education in the Christian tradition for the glory of God and the well-being of humankind. MAG University educates women and men to be reflective lifelong learners, to be responsible and active participants in civic life and to live generously in service to others.

Vision
To be a world-class university, culturally relevant, offering transformational education and quality leadership that is applicable locally and globally.

Mission
Exists to advance knowledge and produce innovative, Spirit-empowered technocrats and leaders who serve the nation and the entire world with integrity.

General Philosophy and Plan of the Faculty

Philosophy of the Institution
MAGU approaches the total educational programme from a Christian perspective. It attempts to carry out comprehensive educational training to prepare students to reach their maximum fulfillment in serving God, church, fellow man and country in the changing educational, economic, political, and social situation of today.

As a Christian school, MAGU’s education is designed to be holistic. It is very important that all persons involved in the educational process gain knowledge and skills that enable them to respond to situations and problems effectively. They must be transformed through a personal encounter with God in Jesus Christ. MAGU also believes that men and women experiencing this transformation will seek to live individually and collectively by the affirmation that Jesus is Saviour and Lord.

Statement of Faith

Malawi Assemblies of God University subscribes to the Statement of Fundamental Truths of the Assemblies of God. The full statement is found in the appendix of this document.

The following is a summary:

We believe:

  • The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God.
  • There is one God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
  • In the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, in His future return to the earth in power and glory.
  • The only means of being cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in the vicarious and atoning work of Jesus Christ.
  • Regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for personal salvation. The redemptive work of Christ on the cross provides healing of the human body in answer to believing prayer.
  • The baptism in the Holy Spirit is a special experience following salvation for the purpose of empowering believers for witnessing and effective service just as it did in the New Testament times.
  • In the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy life.
  • In the Blessed Hope – the rapture of the Church at Christ’s coming.
  • In the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the one to everlasting life and the other to bodily everlasting damnation.

Core Values

  • Christ-Centered Ministry: We value an effective seminary education that leads students to a deeper and more intimate relationship with Jesus Christ than before beginning that educational process. The Lordship of Christ should affect and be evident in every aspect of education, relationship, and ministry endeavors at Malawi Assemblies of God University.
  • Biblical Authority: We value the Bible as the Word of God, and is our only infallible rule of faith and practice. We believe in the plenary, verbal inspiration of the Holy Scriptures by the Holy Spirit and, therefore, we affirm the inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures, and through rightly interpreting Scripture we preach Christ and His kingdom so that people from every nation may be reconciled to God. We believe that the Bible gives us the mandate, message, and model for world evangelization. The central theme of the entire Bible is God’s redemptive work.
  • Pentecostal Distinctive: We value and are committed to the Pentecostal dimension of Christianity. We affirm the person of the Holy Spirit as the empowering agent in believers of Christ to follow Christ’s command to proclaim this gospel to every nation. Thus, we carefully maintain, from a theological and practical perspective, the Pentecostal distinctive in all educational and ministry activities.
  • Mission of God: We believe that God is a missionary God! As such, God purpose is to gather those that submit to His Lordship from all nations, tribes, and peoples of the earth. Thus, the God of Mission has commissioned His Church to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of His Son Jesus Christ. We believe this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, then the end will come!
  • Kingdom Perspective: We believe that Christians are Kingdom people, and Christ Himself is the eternal King over His Kingdom. As Kingdom people, we are called in partnership with Christ the King as representatives to proclaim His dominion over all the earth.
  • Missionary Church: We value the Church as God’s representative people on the earth to participate in the call of God’s mission. We believe that the task of God’s mission does not fall alone to certain segments of the body of Christ, but rather should involve every Christian from every nation of the world.
  • Comprehensive Education: We value the educational approach that considers the whole person, and strives to equip the mind and the heart. We believe spiritual fervor and higher education do not have to be mutually exclusive, but rather God can use both aspects to His glory. We are committed to high standards of research, writing, thinking and application as a means of preparing students to engage with a global community.
  • Community Emphasis: We value community fellowship. We believe that within the learning community we must model ethics and values of the Kingdom of God. Students should reach out to one another with humility and dignity while modeling a servant’s heart knowing that we are a reflection of the breath and diversity of the family of God.