Statement of Faith

As a covenantal institution, Covenant Academy recognizes the priority of God’s order in the family and thus requires one or both parents to be a professed believer in Jesus Christ (cf. 1 Cor. 7:14 et al.). In all questions of orthodox Christian teaching, the Westminster Confession of Faith is the interpretive standard for Covenant Academy. In agreement with the historic, orthodox doctrine of the Christian faith, the following Statement of Faith is a public acknowledgment to be witnessed by one or both parents:

We believe in one uncreated God, in three persons of the Godhead, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Almighty creator of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, true God from true God, uncreated, of one being with the Father. Through Him all things were created. He willingly came down from heaven for the salvation of humans; by the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit the divine nature was inseparably joined to the human nature in one person, a real human being, through conception in the Virgin Mary, and was born a man. He lived a sinless life and for our salvation He was crucified under the Roman official, Pontius Pilate; He suffered the righteous judgement of God as the sin bearer. He surrendered himself to God in death and was buried. On the third day He rose from the dead bodily as recorded in scripture; He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father. He will come again in glory to judge all people, both living and dead, and His kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Holy Trinity, who proceeds from the Father and the Son and with the Father and Son is worshiped and glorified. He has infallibly communicated through His chosen holy men giving us Holy Scriptures, the Bible.

We believe in one Holy Communion and continuing Church from Apostolic times. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the gift of eternal life in the world to come. Amen.