Philosophy of Education

 

Romans 11:36: For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever.

The ministry of SREC is committed to helping parents to disciple their children in the ways of the Lord. We believe that every student is created “in the image of God” (Genesis 1:27) and that when a child receives Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, they become a part of the family of God and need “the sincere milk of the Word” (1 Peter 2:2) in order to mature spiritually. Our desire is to help them to develop and grow in the purposes and plans that God has for their lives. We will seek to minister to students spiritually, academically, socially, and physically in much the same way that Jesus did when He lived among the people of His day. In each classroom, the teacher, under the leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit, is called to model the life of Christ before the students as they create a stimulating learning environment. All subject material will be integrated with Scriptural principles in order to cultivate a biblical worldview grounded in the inerrancy of the Word of God. Our desire is for students to have a love for learning that will help them to reach their God-given potential.

 

Our philosophy of education stems from the following Scriptural principles:

 

God is the eternal Creator of all and exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Psalm 90:1-2: Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst  formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Genesis 1:1-2: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

1 John 5:7: For there are three that bear record in Heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one.

John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Colossians 1:16-17: For by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created by him and for him. And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Genesis 1:26: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

1 Corinthians 10:31: Whether therefore,  ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Isaiah 43:7: Even everyone that is called by My name, for I have created him for my glory; I have formed him, yea I have made him. Man is a sinner and without Jesus Christ cannot know or honor God.

Romans 5:12: Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

Romans 3:23: For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

Romans 8:7-8: Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then, they that are in the flesh cannot please God. God provided His Son to be the only acceptable sacrifice for sin and the only means for eternal life.

2 Corinthians 5:21: For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Hebrews 9:12: Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

John 14:6: I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto to the Father but by me.

Romans 6:23: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

John 3:16: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Acts 4:12: Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. God provides the truth of His Word and the power of His Spirit for growth as a disciple of Jesus Christ.

John 17:17: Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth.

2 Thessalonians 2:13: But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief of the truth.

2 Timothy 3:16-17: All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

John 16:13: Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you unto all truth; for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak; and he will show you things to come. God calls believers to be disciples and to make disciples for His glory.

Mark 12:30-31: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. And the second is , namely is this: Thou shalt shall love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Matthew 28:19-20: Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. The role of the parents to disciple and educate their children.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7: And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, when thou  walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Proverbs 1:8: My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Proverbs 22:6: Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 6:4: And ye, fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. The necessity of prayer.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-17: Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing.

Adoration

Praise ye the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; praise him in the firmament of his power.  Praise him for his mighty acts; praise him according to His excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals; praise him upon the high-sounding cymbals, Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. (Psalm 150)

Confession

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)

Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139:23-24)

Thanksgiving

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. (Psalm 100:4)

Be careful for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. (Philippians 4:6)

Supplication

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us. (1 John 5:14)

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. (Ephesians 6:18)

The role of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:12-13: Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

John 14:16-17 (part): And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever—Even the Spirit of truth.

John 15:26: But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.

John 16:8: And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.

Acts 1:8: But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

The role of teachers.

Philippians 4:9: Those things, which ye have both learned and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

1 Corinthians 4:16-17: Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.  For this cause have  I have sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

2 Timothy 2:2: And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

2 Timothy 2:24: And the servant of the LORD must not strive, but be gentle to all men, apt to teach; In all meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

The role of the student.

Proverbs 4:23: Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

2 Timothy 2:15: Study to show thyself approved unto God, a worker that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Proverbs 9:10: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding.

1 Timothy 4:12: Let no one despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the believers in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Isaiah 26:3: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee.

Romans 12:1-2: I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not be conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

Statement of Faith

• We believe in all the basic doctrines of historic Christianity.
• We believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, Old and New Testaments are the inspired, infallible Word of God.
• We believe that God is eternally existent in three distinct persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• We believe that God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign Creator of all things.
• We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, that He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins by His substitutionary death on the cross, was bodily raised from the dead, ascended back to the right hand of the Father, and ever lives to make intercession for us.
• We believe in the personal, visible, and pre-millennial second coming of Jesus Christ to the earth. He will return with His saints and set up a kingdom of which there will be no end.
• We believe that after Jesus ascended to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on the believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the Gospel to the entire world, an obligation shared by all believers today.
• We believe that all people are, by nature, separated from God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord.
• We believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Scriptures, and that they are valid for today, less the sign gifts of tongues and healing, if they are exercised within the Scriptural perameters. We as believers are to covet the best gifts, seeking to exercise them in love that the whole body of Christ might be edified. We believe that love is more important than the most spectacular gifts, and without this love all exercise of spiritual gifts is worthless.