Our Mission
Gunnery Road Christian Academy exists to provide a “Luke 2:52″ education to equip our students to love God and serve others.
Statement of Faith
We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament in their original autographs to be the divinely inspired Word of God and our only rule for the Christian faith.
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory and possessing the same attributes and perfections.
We believe that God the Son, by the medium of the virgin birth, became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ so that He might die on the cross bearing our sins as a vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice.
Jesus Christ was raised from the grave in the body of His crucifixion, ascended to God the Father, and will return for His people according to His promise.
We believe that salvation is to be received by the sinner as a free gift, which cannot be earned, and that when a person has truly accepted Christ, he is kept by God’s power and is thus secure in Christ.
Beyond this necessary doctrinal foundation, the school will not seek to be divisive about such things as the church ordinances and policies, which commonly divide denominations. GRCA will refer students to their parents and pastors for such instruction.
Educational Philosophy
The Bible places the responsibility of educating children upon the parents. Parents are instructed to teach God’s Word “diligently” (Deuteronomy 6:7), “train up a child in the way he should go” (Proverbs 22:6), and to bring their children up in the “nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). The church also has an educational function, which is to teach believers to “observe all things” (Matthew 28:20). The school is to function as an extension of the home and church. To meet this obligation, the culture of the home, church, and school needs to be in harmony for consistent education to take place (Amos 3:3).
The Bible is the center of our school’s curriculum. It is the final authority in all matters (John 17:17). All knowledge, whether scientific, historical, philosophical or spiritual, finds its verity in its relationship to God as the ultimate Source and Foundation of all truth. Gunnery Road Christian Academy bases our education on Biblical truths and principles, which must be applied to every area of life to lead individuals to maturity in Christ. Since God’s purpose in the creation of man was to glorify Him, education must ultimately serve to that end as well.
The Christian philosophy of education has as its foundation several premises: that God is the essence and source of all truth; that reverential fear of God “is the beginning of
wisdom”, “understanding” and “knowledge” (Psalm 111:10: Proverbs 1:7; 9:10); that Christ is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life” (John 14:6); that “in Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3); and that “He is the beginning of all things, and by Him all things are and were created” (Revelation 4:11).
Man is a sinner by nature through Adam and by his own choice, and cannot, in this state, glorify God (Romans 3:23; 5:12). Man’s nature and desires must be changed by a personal acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord (Romans 5:15, 17). The educational process must begin by leading the individual to this personal acceptance of Jesus Christ. It must present all truth as God’s truth, interpret it with God’s Word and seek to relate the whole person to God–spiritually, mentally, socially, and physically.
God’s goal for all Christians is that they become “perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (II Timothy 3:17). All activity should be designed to bring the Christian to eventual conformity to the image of Christ (Romans 8:29). Since this is God’s goal, it must be the primary goal of Christian education to lead every student to continual transformation into the image of Christ which will lead the student to love God and serve others.