As a covenantal-Christian community committed to “preparing servant-leaders to honor God, love others, and walk in Truth,” Mount Paran Christian School is dedicated to the highest standards of academic achievement, spiritual growth, and personal development.
Members of the MPCS community seek to honor God by pursuing biblical lifestyles for individual and communal benefit. Faith in God results in behavior that displays His authority in our lives, and Scripture teaches that love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are qualities of lives and relationships of the Christian community (Galatians 5:22-23).
Our community is guided by the following principles:
- 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. (Matthew 22:36-38; I Corinthians 10:31; Colossians 3:9, 10, 17)
- An abiding love for and accountability to Jesus motivates all of our actions in this community of believers. (John 15:12-17, I John 4:7-12)
- As servants of Christ, the Mount Paran Christian School community bears the responsibility of service. (Matthew 7:12, 25:31-46; Galatians 5:14, 6:10)
- The words and actions of the members in this community are not always solely a private matter. We are called to pray for each other, go to each other in love when dissensions or concerns arise, and hold each other accountable for the implications of their attitudes and conduct. (Matthew 18: 15-17)
- Attaining common goals and ensuring an orderly community life necessitates subordination of individual prerogatives. Christian freedom also includes the option of not doing some things in order to contribute to the common spiritual and emotional good of the impressionable students we serve, as well as promote the betterment of Christian community of which we are a part. (I Corinthians 8:9-13, 9:19-23, 10:23-33)
- Avoiding destructive and sinful attitudes and behaviors, including greed, jealousy, pride, lust, needless anger, an unforgiving spirit, harmful discrimination, prejudice, theft, lying, cheating, plagiarism, gossip, slander, profanity, vulgarity, transgenderism, homosexual behavior, premarital sex, sexual promiscuity, pornography, drunkenness, gluttony, immodesty, and occult practices. (Galatians 5:19-21, I Corinthians 6:9-10)
- Scripture teaches that all of our actions should be God-honoring. We seek, therefore, to be selective in personal choices, recognizing the influence of our decisions impacts the Mount Paran Christian School community and the broader body of Christ. (Romans 12:2)
- Secularism is a subtle issue involving uncritical conformity to the spirit of the culture and age. As disciples of Christ, the Mount Paran Christian School community members are called to be counter-cultural, understanding that one’s disposition concerning such matters as materialism, isolationism, success, hedonism, and moral relativity must stand in perpetual review. Christians are called to be especially vigilant against idolatry, allowing a preoccupation with other things to come before God. (Romans 12:2, I John 2:15-17, Exodus 20:3, Philippians 3:18-20)
- The Bible defines marriage as a sacramental covenant between one man and one woman; God-designed human sexuality is expressed and affirmed within a monogamous, heterosexual marriage. (Genesis 2: 23-24, Colossians 3:5-7, Romans 1:26-27, I Corinthians 6:9-10, I Timothy 1:9-10)
- Christians are compelled by Scripture to believe that God creates life in the womb of a mother and that life, being divinely ordained, is sacred and should be protected and preserved by a Christian community. The Bible also affirms that the sexual nature and identity of a person is determined by God at conception. This God-given gender is recognized and verified by a legal document at the time of birth. (Psalms 139:13-15, Psalms 22:10-11, Galatians 1:15)
These principles are tangible expressions, by God’s grace, of the path to Christian wholeness. Therefore, these Biblical principles are not to be seen as a burden, but as a means to alleviate the brokenness of the human condition by pursuing God’s perfect design for identity, relationships, and creation (Romans 7:7-12). So, while these principles are guiding, perfection in all is not expected​. As the kindness of God leads His people to repentance, we, as a Christ-centered community, commit to grace-filled conversations as we are led to a deeper relationship with Him.
