AGON is a Greek New Testament word translated as "contest," or "competition" and came to also be used to describe the field or arena where the ancient athletic games, contests and races occurred.  The AGON Institute of Sports Ministry is specifically designed to prepare SR&F Outreach Ministers for the "contest and competition" as experienced in the joys, rigors and challenges of contemporary ministry. To be a minister of the Gospel requires a sacrificial denial of self, and the willingness to endure a variety of obstacles even occasional persecutions. The goal of The AGON Institute is to resource, train, equip and empower SR&F Ministers to be Strategically-Relevant and Efficiently-Effective in their struggle to incarnate the Gospel to an increasingly secular world.

 

The Institute equips its students to acquire cognitive Information that inspires personal Transformation that results in ministerial Formation.  This is done through establishing foundational theological truths that position students to use sound philosophical principles, to catalyze students for the most relevant and strategic methodological models of outreach currently available.