Association Free Lutheran Bible School and Seminary

Association Free Lutheran Bible School and the Association of Free Lutheran Theological Seminary are located in Plymouth, Minnesota at the national offices of the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations.

Bible School

AFLBS is a two year post high school institutatuion was established in 1966 by the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations. AFLC church founders sought to establish young Christians in the Bible before college and help believers to "win, build and equip" workers in local churches. Currently the enrollment is approx 200 students. Approximately 25 percent of AFLBS students come from outside of the United States including Latvia, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Brazil.

The Bible School has five purposes:

1. To teach students in the assurance of personal salvation in Jesus through the study of the Bible.

2. To teach students to face a secular society through the study of the Bible.

3. To help students embrace the truth as found in the Bible, and to reject the theological errors.

4. To challenge students to seek God's will in all personal and vocational choices and pursue the Great Commission of Jesus Christ as given in Matthew 28:19.

5. To equip students to serve in free and living Lutheran congregations.

Seminary

The Association of Free Lutheran Congregations established a theological seminary committed to historic Lutheran theology. The seminary opened in September 1964. The Free Lutheran Seminary only admits men into the school. Student attened seminary classes for 3 years. The fourth year is an internship at one of the AFLC churches.

As an institution of the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, the Seminary believes and teaches that:

The Bible is the divinely inspired, revealed, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God and as such is trustworthy in all its parts and is the supreme and only rule of faith and practice. The Apostles Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed the Unaltered Augsburg Confession and Luther's Small Catechism are faithful expositions of the truths of Scripture. The local congregation is the right form of the Kingdom of God on earth. It teaches there is no authority above itself except the Word of God and the Spirit of God.