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Mission Statement


Lafayette Christian School excels in Christ-centered education and equips each unique child to love and serve God in all of life.
 

Philosophy


The purpose of Lafayette Christian School is to equip young people to live a Christian life of service in this world and to be transforming agents in the Kingdom of God.

It is our belief that God directly commands that children of Christian parents be trained in the fear of the Lord. The authority and responsibility for this training of children resides in the community of Christians and with the parents in particular. Parents may, however, seek the cooperation of the Christian church and teachers who are competent to assist in carrying out God’s command.

"These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” (Deuteronomy 6: 6,7)

The supreme standard of the Lafayette Christian School Society is the scripture of the Old and New Testaments herein confessed to be the infallible Word of God and interpreted in the ecumenical creeds and the historic Reformed confessions. (A summary copy of these confessions is available at the school.)

Basic Beliefs


Scriptural Direction and Reformed Tradition 
The Bible is God’s written Word. It reveals His will for creation and provides guidance for our lives. Our understanding of the implications of Scripture and the meaning of our task as a Christian school stands within the Reformed tradition of the Protestant Reformation.

Creation 
Our entire world, in all its parts, aspects, and relations, is the creation of the triune God; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God orders and preserves the cosmos by His Word as an expression of covenantal love. All things are unified under God’s rule and exist to give Him glory.

Humanity 
Human beings are created and knit together in the womb as male or female, bearing God’s image. As such, we are given a mandate to live in community with God, each other, and creation, developing its potential and taking good care of it. The Creator’s intent for human sexuality finds its fulfillment between a man and a woman within the bond of the marriage covenant. To experience the fullness of God’s loving intent in human sexuality, sexual experience is intended to be celebrated between a man and a woman within that covenant union.

Fall Into Sin 
Through humanity’s willful disobedience to God, sin entered the world. It disrupted communion between God and humankind, it resulted in disharmony between people, and it set men and women in harmful opposition to the rest of creation that resulted in hardship and death.

Redemption and Restoration 
God sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to save us from sin and to restore all things to Himself. Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection broke the power of the Evil One and inaugurated the renewal of creation. All will be fully restored when the Lord returns to make everything right.

The Kingdom of God and the Task of the Church 
As God’s people, the church, we are called to be agents of reconciliation. Under the leading of the Holy Spirit and in communion with God and one another, we are to summon sinners to repentance and strive to advance God’s rule in all areas of life. We seek to transform culture and bring peace to a broken world.

Christian Education 
Christian education is an integral part of the Christian community’s contemporary responsibility before God. It teaches wisdom to each new generation of God’s people to discern His will for their time and place. It also prepares them to care for and unfold all of creation in praise to Him, and it helps them to fight against the works of the Devil. It also develops students’ insights, capabilities, and Christian perspectives across a broad spectrum of areas and practical competence so that God’s people can become better equipped to serve Him as maturing children and adults in all areas of life.