Alpine Christian School

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe that God is totally sovereign, holy, righteous, and just. We believe that all mankind has sinned against God, and as a result of our sin, we are alienated from God and condemned to experience God’s wrath eternally in hell, apart from God’s own gracious intervention. We believe that salvation is wholly by God’s grace through faith in Jesus, who is both truly God and truly man. We believe that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born to the virgin Mary. We believe that Jesus was without sin and led a sinless life. We believe that Jesus was crucified, he died as a substitute for sinners, a sacrifice for sin, and as a propitiation of the wrath of God towards sinners, and he was buried. We believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead and has ascended into heaven, where he sits at the right hand of the Father. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ will come again to judge the living and the dead. We believe that anyone who repents and believes in Jesus shall be saved from God’s wrath and declared righteous, and sealed with the Holy Spirit until Christ’s second coming.
 

Our Affirmations of Doctrine & Practice

(A) Scripture, the revealed written Word of God, is without error in all that it affirms. As the truth of God, it is the final authority in matters of faith and practice. Consequently, Scripture is an indispensable tool of scholarship for integrating the Christian faith with all academic disciplines.

(B) Scripture provides the foundation to guide one’s behavior and to evaluate the behavior of others. The school seeks to develop policies and practices that reflect a biblical worldview and patterns of behavior consistent with God’s design for human flourishing.
(C) God created all things in six literal days and that the creation of human beings was a special creative act of God. The school does not teach naturalistic or theistic evolution to be the mechanism by which God ordered His creation.
(D) God wonderfully and immutably created each person in His image as one of two genders (or sexes), male and female. These two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. Rejection of one’s biological gender is a rejection of the image of God within that person. While different in some roles, males and females are equal in dignity as bearers of God’s image. Headship, and all authority, is to be modeled on Christ’s sacrificial service for the Church. We are to refer to God as we are taught in Scripture. Jesus was himself a male, and he teaches us to refer to God as “our Father.”
(E) The Biblical standard for expressing sexual behavior is heterosexual, monogamous marriage. Marriage has only one meaning and that is marriage sanctioned by God which joins one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture. Scripture explicitly rules out pre-marital, extra-marital, polyamorous, and homosexual sexual activity. Any form of sexual immorality (including adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexual conduct, polyamorous conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography, and attempting to change one’s biological sex or otherwise acting upon any disagreement with one’s biological sex) or advocacy of sexual immorality, is sinful and is therefore offensive to God. While Christians must exhibit compassion to those whose sexual behavior the Bible describes as sinful, they are not to support any public policy or view that legitimizes such sinful behavior as an appropriate lifestyle. God offers redemption and restoration to all who confess and forsake their sin, seeking His mercy and forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
(F) All human life is created by God in His image, and is therefore of inestimable worth in all its dimensions, including pre-born babies, the aged, the physically or mentally challenged, and every other stage or condition from conception through natural death. Therefore, all human life should be valued.
(G) Each person is made in God’s image, is equal in God’s sight, and therefore must be esteemed equal by all mankind. Hence slavery and wrongful discrimination is not compatible with a biblical worldview.
(H) Every person must be afforded compassion, love, kindness, respect, and dignity. Hateful and harassing behavior or attitudes directed towards any individual are to be repudiated and are not in accord with Scripture nor the policy of this school. Christians are to exhibit compassion informed by a conscience in whether there is Biblical concern for the economically, socially, and politically disadvantaged (e.g. the poor, widows, orphans, and aliens). Strategies for expressing this concern should emphasize personal responsibility.
(I) Diversity and unity are both manifested in God’s person and His creation. Cultural and ethnic distinctions that properly reflect such diversity and unity are deserving of respect. The truth of Christ, which transcends such distinctions, is the standard for judging all cultural and ethnic expressions and values. Believers of all races and cultures enjoy unity in Christ, which enhances their personal and ethnic identity.
 

Our Mission

Our mission is to serve families by providing a Christ-centered, biblically-based education marked by academic excellence and spiritual vitality.
 

Our Vision

Our vision is that all students --- through the collective efforts of the parents, church, and school --- would be molded into image-bearers of Christ. It is further the school's vision to produce powerful and effective student leaders who will impact their world through biblical thought and action in obedience to the Great Commission and the Great Commandment.