Statement of Faith

It is important that parents who entrust their children to the instruction of other individuals and institutions understand what scriptural principles are held. The following is provided to indicate that we believe:

• There is one God (Deut. 6:4).
• God has chosen to reveal Himself to man through the Godhead (Col. 2:9), the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Col. 1:15, John 1:1, 14, Jude 25); the Bible supports this “Doctrine of the Trinity” (Matt. 28:19, Luke 3:22).
• The Bible (comprised of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments) is the inspired, inerrant Word of God revealing the will of God in all things necessary to our salvation (II Timothy 3:15-17; I Peter 1:10-12; II Peter 1:20-21).
• Jesus is both fully human and fully God (Phil. 2:5-8, Heb. 4:15); that He is the expressed “image of the invisible God” (Col. 1:15); and that He is to be worshiped, praised and adored (along with the Father and the Holy Spirit) not only for what He has done, but for who He is – - the Son of God and God the Son (Rev. 5:8, 9).
• Jesus was born of a virgin and “became flesh” (John 1:14, Matt. 1:18).
• Jesus voluntarily suffered death by crucifixion and that He became the great sacrifice of God “to take away the sins of the world” (John 1:29).
• Jesus rose from the grave in triumph over Satan, hell, and death, winning the position and name above all others, so that no one can be saved by any other way, or by any other name than Jesus’ (Phil. 2:9-11, Acts 4:12).
• Salvation is a free gift by God’s grace, but that this gift was anything but cheap (it cost God the life of His beloved Son) (John 3:16, Eph. 2:8, I John 1:9); a person is saved only by faith in Jesus’ finished work on the cross, and that if this faith is real it will produce repentance –a change of mind regarding sin and everything that is not pleasing to God — that results in a total change of actions and deeds (Acts 2:37, 38, Matthew 3:8, James 2:14, 26).
• The Holy Spirit was sent to the world to both convict the world of sin, and to empower believers to be good and faithful witnesses to God’s glory and purpose (John 16:8, Luke 24:49, Isaiah 43:10, Acts 1:8, 2:1-4).
• We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ will come again and those who are in Christ shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, so that they shall ever be with the Lord (I Thessalonians 4:13-18, Philippians 3:20-21, John 14:1-3, Revelation 1:7-8).
• Jesus will physically return to the earth one day to judge the earth and its inhabitants (Rev. 6:9, 10, 19:11-16).