What We Believe

1. Identify as a Christian by virtue of the grace of God and faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
    
2. Desire to grow in both knowledge and wisdom, as well as in habits and loves, because of a commitment to live out the work of the triune God in their life.
    
3. Participate in the ministry of a local church and in personal disciplines of the faith.
    
4. Recognize that parents are primarily responsible before God for their children’s education and that it is Veritas’s mission to assist them in this task.
    
5. Embrace that work at Veritas is a personal calling and that each person—whether staff, teacher, co-teacher, student, or parent—would see themselves as engaged in the work and ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
    
6. Understand they are part of a non-denominational, orthodox Christian community, in which unity is sought while diversity within orthodoxy is respected and valued.
    
7. Accept the biblical obligation to submit to governing authorities, whether national, local, or institutional, except when it otherwise contradicts God’s word.
    
8. Know that all have sinned and fall short of God’s glorious design, and that redemption for sin is found only in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

1. There is one sovereign God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
2. There is one way of salvation: faith in Jesus Christ, the son of God, who lived as a man, died for the sins of all men, and was resurrected so that all who believe in their hearts and confess Jesus as Lord will be saved.
3. There is one book of truth: the Bible, God’s written revelation to man, authoritative, reliable, infallible, and without need of another document to complete its message.
4. There is one body: the church, whom God calls its many parts to act together in unison.

Life within the Christian community must be lived for the glory of God, daily conforming ourselves to the image of Christ, and recognizing the lordship of Christ in all aspects of our shared work.⁽¹⁾

A steadfast love for and accountability to Jesus and His people should motivate our actions in this community of believers.⁽²⁾

As saints and fellow ministers of Christ, we each bear responsibility for serving and loving one another.⁽³⁾

The words and actions of the faculty, staff, students, and parents in our community are often not a private matter. We are called to pray for each other and for each other’s welfare, go to each other in love when conflict or concerns arise, and hold each other accountable for the consequences of our attitudes and conduct.⁽⁴⁾

Each member of our community is responsible for their own behavior as it reflects upon the Lord, the school community, and themselves, particularly in the area of personal freedom where discretion, moderation, and restraint should be practiced.⁽⁵⁾

Attaining common goals and order in community life often calls us to subordinate our individual prerogatives. Christian freedom also includes the choosing not to do some things in order to contribute to the common spiritual and emotional good of the impressionable students and families we serve as well as to promote the betterment of the Christian community of which we are a part.⁽⁶⁾

We should endeavor and encourage one another to bear the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.⁽⁷⁾

Every person—regardless of tribe, language, or nation—should be afforded compassion, love, kindness, respect, and dignity.⁽⁸⁾ Hateful and harassing behavior or attitudes toward any person are not in accord with the Bible and should not be tolerated.

We should strive and encourage one another to overcome pride, covetousness, envy, lust, and immodesty, as all are destructive to the unity of the Body of Christ.⁽⁹⁾

We should seek to edify each other and our community by sharing the allsurpassing peace of Christ, avoiding slander, gossip, and discord and refusing to act out of selfish ambition, arrogance, anger, or a complaining spirit.⁽¹⁰⁾

All human life is sacred, begins at conception, and is created by God in His image.⁽¹¹⁾ Human life is 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.

God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as either male or female that together reflect the image and nature of God.⁽¹²⁾

God instituted the glorious gift of marriage, a covenant relationship between one man and one woman only, with the husband born male and the wife born female.⁽¹³⁾

God designed sexual intimacy to occur only between one man and one woman who are married to each other. We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman.⁽¹⁴⁾

All forms of profanity, dishonesty, theft, drunkenness, and sexual immorality (including adultery, homosexual behavior, and use of pornography) are destructive to our souls, sinful, and offensive to God.⁽¹⁵⁾

God offers redemption and restoration to all who confess their sin, repent, and seek His mercy and forgiveness through Jesus Christ.⁽¹⁶⁾