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As a school, we believe that God is an eternal
personal being of absolute knowledge, power, goodness and
righteousness. He is ultimate reality, the source and foundation of
all reality and truth. We believe that Jesus Christ, God’s only Son,
is creator, designer and preserver of all things. In Him the entire
universe has its origin, energy, control and final destiny.
We believe that man came
into being by a direct, immediate act of the Creator and is unique
among all the creatures. Man (Mankind) bears the image of God in
that he has personality and the power of moral choice. Man’s purpose
is to glorify God, and to subdue and hold dominion over the earth.
Man, by deliberate choice, became estranged from God, and man’s
divine image was marred; he became morally corrupt and in need of
redemption. This redemption is provided by God only through the
life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Truth is centered in
Christ, and all its disciplines are meaningfully related to each
other and to Him. God communicates truth to man through revelation
that is both "General" (nature and providence) and "SPECIAL" (Bible
and Jesus). We believe that the Bible is the inspired and inerrant
Word of God, the final authority for faith and practice.
All
Christians, in all times and in all places have been united into a
single body of God’s design. This union is called the body of
Christ, the universal church. The Bible commands that Christians
assemble for worship, instruction, fellowship and mission. The
mission of the church is to make disciples of all nations. Redwood
Christian Schools, in cooperation with parents, participates in the
mission insofar as we are part of the body of Christ.
Because God is central and has
made Himself known through revelation, education must create an
awareness of God’s manifestations. We believe that education is
learning to see things as God sees them and to think God’s thoughts
after Him. We believe that all curricula content is related to God
and the revelation of God becomes the heart of the curricula. The
most important agent in this revelation is the Holy Spirit.
We believe
that education is the process of directing human development toward
godliness in character and action. In this process, the Christian
school is an extension of both the home and the church, the two
institutions to which Scripture gives the responsibility of
education. We recognize that the most effective education
necessitates a Christian teacher and a Christian student.
We believe that God has given the
responsibility for discipline and instruction of children to
parents. They are to train each one faithfully in God’s truth. The
father, under God’s direction, has this major responsibility as he
and his wife raise each child in the ways of the Lord. We believe
parents have given Redwood Christian Schools the authority to join
with them in this process during the school hours and activities.
The parents empower The School to act as surrogate parents and
Redwood agrees to assist (but not supplant) the parents in the
teaching and training of truth and in character development.
Personal salvation is our foremost objective for each student,
enabling him to reflect God spiritually, mentally, socially and
physically. It is our further objective to lead each student into an
understanding of the basic concepts of the Christian life, to
develop within him the ability to think deeply and critically from a
Christian world view, and to guide him into making his relationship
with Jesus Christ meaningful in every aspect of his life.
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