Statement of Faith
Statement of Faith
We believe that God reveals Himself through the creation, preservation, and government of the universe. We believe that God makes Himself more clearly and fully known through the Scriptures, which are the only inerrant and infallible Word of God, our ultimate and final authoritative rule for faith and practice. These Scriptures are made up of 66 books, from Genesis to Revelation, the authority of which depend not upon the testimony of any man or church, and are all to be received as the Word of God.
We believe that there is but one living and true God, eternally existent in three Persons of one power, substance, and eternity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is perfectly wise, the overflowing fountain of all good. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. In all things, He is limited by nothing other than His own nature and character. We believe the God we serve is holy, righteous, good, loving, and full of mercy. He is the Creator, Sustainer, and Governor of all that has been made.
We believe in the true deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, such that two distinct natures, divine and human, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion. We believe in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
We believe that Adam was made from the dust of the ground and formed after God’s image and likeness, which was good, righteous, and holy. Because of Adam’s sin, all mankind is in a state of rebellion against God. For the salvation of such lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary.
We believe that salvation is by grace through faith alone, and that faith without works is dead. We believe that God freely justifies His own, not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous, for the sake of Jesus Christ alone.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life, as the Spirit of Christ within us enables us to do freely and cheerfully what the will of God revealed in Scripture requires to be done. We believe that good works are only those which arise from true faith, conform to God’s Word, and are done for His glory.
We believe God has appointed a day when He will judge the world in righteousness through Jesus Christ. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those who are saved to the resurrection of life, and those who are lost to the resurrection of damnation.
We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. All who are united to Christ as Head of the Church are united to one another in love and have communion in each other’s gifts and graces.
We believe that God defined marriage as the lifelong covenant between one man and one woman and that all forms of sexual activity outside of marriage are sin.
We believe that God immutably creates each person to reflect His image as male or female.
The statement of faith as written above is used with permission from the Association of Classical Christian Schools.
Doctrine and Policies Concerning Sexuality
Our culture has been in rebellion against God’s creation of mankind as man and woman for sometime. This rebellion against lifelong, monogamous, heterosexual marriage is not only widespread it has been and is horrendously destructive. It will have an impact on ADCCA. For the protection of our staff and teachers, and for the guidance of families, it is necessary that ADCCA make plain our Scriptural convictions and commitments in this area.
We believe that God immutably creates each person in his mother’s womb as either male or female. From the moment of conception, males are distinct from females, and females are distinct from males. God’s decree of either male or female for each person is a gift to be received with gratitude and for each man to live out his manhood and each woman her womanhood, in humble reliance upon God’s grace.
We believe that genetic sex and sexual identity cannot be separated and are united throughout one’s life. There are no gradations, you are either male or female. Men are not to play the woman nor women to play the man. This sin would include any attempts or efforts to change one’s sex by dress, behavior, chemical, surgical and/or any other means to adopt characteristics of the opposite sex.
We believe that God’s created order of man and woman took place before the Fall and that God’s creation of Adam first, then Eve, is the origin of Scripture’s teaching of male headship and the condemnation of woman exercising authority over man. The creation order is a universal truth for all mankind.
ADCCA is privileged, in concert with the church and the home, to assist parents in training boys to be men and girls to be women. This is both for purposes of Christian discipleship and as a witness to the Gospel for the salvation of sinners. Thus, our teachers and staff will treat boys as boys and girls as girls in all areas of school life. There may be events or activities or programs that are limited to either boys or girls. Boys will not be allowed to participate in activities designated only for girls, and girls will not be allowed to participate in activities designated only for boys. Access to facilities that are designated for use by men are exclusively limited to males. Access to facilities that are designated for use by women are exclusively limited to women.