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Our Vision
Northlake Christian School shall challenge its students to know Jesus Christ as Lord, to love others as themselves, to grow in wisdom, knowledge and skill, in order that they may serve God with the virtue, character and obedience of Christ in all areas of life.
Our Mission
Northlake Christian School is a private, non-denominational Christian school and daycare that exists to assist the Christian community in providing a Christian environment in which faith can be integrated with learning to offer a high quality education for its students from six weeks through twelfth grade.
Our Educational Philosophy
By its Mission Statement, Northlake Christian School (NCS) "exists to assist the Christian community." With this declaration, we have affirmed that we serve not primarily as an evangelical institution but, instead, serve "Christian" families -- defined for practical purposes as those who profess a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, accept the Bible as God's inerrant Word, and attend and support a local Bible-believing church.
For those Christian families, NCS provides an educational program "centered" upon the person of the Lord Jesus Christ and constructed upon the foundational wisdom of God's Holy Word. A "Christ-centered" education emanates from an understanding that truth itself is objective, absolute and centered in the very nature of God; that there is no dividing line between the spiritual and the physical so that understanding of one might be divorced from the other; that the God of Israel and His Son Jesus are preeminent in all things both physical and spiritual; and that the foundational wisdom of God has been offered to us in the Bible.
By building an educational process on this Scriptural wisdom, we impart to students the advantage of a world-perspective which makes possible wise life choices. It is, therefore, our purpose to help our children to grow in wisdom and maturity as eternal children of God and heirs with Christ and, in doing so, to equip them to succeed and prosper so that God might be glorified by their good works. What does this mean in terms of the actual educational experience?
OUR DOCTRINAL STATEMENT
We believe…..
……..the Bible is the only wholly inspired word of God, and that such Word of God is without error in its original writing. (1 Thess. 2:13, 2 Tim. 3:16, 1 Peter 1:24-25)
……..in one God, eternally existent in three Persons; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Gen 1:1, John 10:30, John 10:37-38).
-----in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious death and atonement through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory (Isaiah 7:14; Matt 1:23; Luke 1:35; Heb 5:15; John 2:11; Heb 9:12; Eph 1:7; Col 1:14; John 11:25; Acts 1:11; Rev 1:11-16).
-----that for the salvation of the lost and sinful man, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit are essential (Rom 3:19, 23; John 3:16-19; John 5:24; Eph 2:8-10; Titus 3:456)
…..in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling and filling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life (Eph 5:18, Eph 4:30; 1 Cor 3:16; 1 Cor 6:19-20)
…in the resurrection of the saved and the lost, the saved unto a life eternal in the presence of God and the lost unto damnation, separated from God (John 5:28-29)
…..in the spiritual unity of the Church which is the body of Christ, composed of all who have been regenerated through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 8:9, 2 Cor 12:12-13; Gal 3:26-28)
…..in the creation of man by the direct act of God (Gen 1:26-28; Gen 5:1-2); and
…..in the eternal security of the believer (Heb 7-10).
This has been adopted as the official Doctrinal Statement of Northlake Christian School. All Biblical instruction will be in conformity to these commonly held doctrines of historic Christianity. Denominational distinctives will be left to individual churches and will not be taught within the school. This Doctrinal Statement was adopted by the Northlake Christian School Board of Directors in 1978, confirmed in 1985 and 1994, and last updated in June of 2008.
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