Statement of Faith

1. Concerning Scripture: We believe that the Bible in its original writings (the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments) is the inspired and inerrant Word of God, and is the only infallible rule in Christian faith and practice.
2. Concerning God: We believe in one God existing eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in power and glory and identical in essence and attributes.
3. Concerning God’s Providence: We believe that all things that come to pass are directed by God’s eternal will and purposes, according to His perfect wisdom, power, justice, goodness and mercy and without making God the author of sin nor man unaccountable for his thoughts, words, and deeds.
4. Concerning Sin: We believe that due to the sinful disobedience of Adam and Eve, all humanity has inherited a sin nature whose corruption affects all of soul and body, separating them from God and bringing them under God’s just and eternal condemnation.
5. Concerning Jesus Christ: We believe Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, was fully God and fully man, lived a life without sin, voluntarily bore God’s wrathful condemnation of pain and death to save His people from their sins, was raised bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, and now reigns as the exalted head of His Body, the Church.
6. Concerning Salvation: We believe that all who are born again by the Holy Spirit receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ, are pardoned from all their sins and accepted as righteous in God’s sight upon the merits and works of Jesus Christ on their behalf alone and none whatsoever upon any merits or works of their own.
7. Concerning Sanctification: We believe that all true believers, indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption, are enabled more and more to live a godly life, bearing the fruit of the Spirit’s renewing by obedience and good works without which faith is dead, and are eternally secure in His faithful keeping.
8. Concerning the Return of Christ: We believe in the personal, bodily, and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ to judge the world, the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting punishment of the lost, and the everlasting bliss of the saints.

*(Used by permission from the Providence Classical School in Wilmington, Delaware.)