The Coram Deo Philosophy of Christian Education
The Focal point of all that is, has been, and ever will be is the person of Jesus Christ. We believe that the education of our children begins with this reality. We desire our children to self-consciously live and move and have their being in Christ, as the Scriptures teach.
We believe God reveals Himself not only specially in His Word, but generally in every facet of His creation. All knowledge is therefore interrelated and teaches us about God’s character, wisdom, and power. Ultimate reality exists only in Him, the Creator and Sustainer of all things, and therefore truth can be understood ultimately only as it relates to Him as the Sovereign Lord over all. The Scriptures teach that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge. We believe therefore that every aspect of our children’s education needs to be intentionally grounded in this, our historic and biblical Christian faith.
We believe God has given parents, not the Church or the State, the responsibility of educating their children and teaching them to faithfully love and serve Him. We believe our role as educators is to be in loco parentis, “in the place of the parent.” Our board and staff view themselves as servants of parents who assist them in their biblical obligation to educate their children in the Lord. Our school administration, academic instruction and discipline aim to be consistent with and supportive of biblical teaching concerning the family and the authority of parents. Whenever possible, we desire that each father assume leadership in the education of his children. Our instructional program shall endeavor to maximize parental participation in the child’s academic training.
God commands us to love Him with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. We therefore believe that all instruction must encourage students to love God through their academic endeavors. Students must be challenged at all levels to do quality academic work because God is worthy of their best. Students must be taught to behave in a godly manner because God is holy and therefore commands that his children be holy. Parents and teachers should teach the children to do all they do “heartily, as unto the Lord” with the purpose of glorifying Him.
We believe that biblical discipline, the joyful encouragement of an obedient child and the loving correction of a disobedient child, is a critical and necessary part of education. Under no circumstances will the misbehavior of one child be permitted continually to hinder the education of other children.
We believe that a child’s education (behavioral expectations, classroom instruction, role-modeling, and school culture) should encourage growth of students into biblical manhood and biblical womanhood.
Above all, at Coram Deo Academy, parents can be confident of our commitment to love their child with Christ’s love.
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The Coram Deo Statement of Faith
We believe that the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are alone the perfect, inerrant, inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God, and are the final and supreme authority in faith and practice.
We believe that there is only one God, eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, love, and truth; He alone is sovereign over all things.
We believe that God created all things out of nothing, for His own glory and good pleasure, and for the display of His eternal power, wisdom, and goodness; having created all things, God created man in His image, male and female, perfect, sinless, and immortal, and He charged mankind with the governance of the created world, to cultivate it for His glory.
We believe in the historicity of Adam and Eve, our first parents; we believe that though they were created sinless, they did not remain in that perfect state, but willfully and consciously disobeyed their Creator’s command. Consequently, sin entered into the world and death, through sin, spread to all men. The guilt of Adam’s sin and fallen nature are transferred to all mankind.
We believe in the deity and humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth during the reign of Caesar Augustus, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and sin-atoning death on a cross by the shedding of His blood, in His bodily resurrection from the dead, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
We believe that, for the salvation of lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary; salvation is a gift of God, received by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, for the glory of God alone.
We believe that faith without works is dead.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling Christians are enabled to live godly lives.
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost – the saved to the resurrection of life, and the lost to the resurrection of damnation.
We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.