The foundation of Christian Leadership Academy is the Word of God as interpreted in the confessions proceeding from the Protestant Reformation and especially the Westminster Confession of Faith. We believe God created man in His own image. Man is a sinner by nature and by choice in the fall of Adam. He is separated from God and unable to glorify Him without the regenerative work of the Holy Spirit and the redeeming work of Jesus Christ. When man recognizes his state and acknowledges the finished work of Christ in his heart, he is reconciled to God and again becomes an image bearer who can bring glory to God. On this basis, we believe the following articles of faith and principles for Christian education to be a true and necessary foundation for all activities.

We believe the Bible, in its original form, to be written by men under the inspiration of God. It is the only inerrant, infallible, and authoritative word of God finding as its focal point the person and redemptive work of the Living Word, Jesus Christ, and so revealing to man what he is to believe and how he is to live.

We believe that there is one holy, personal, Creator God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe that God the Father, motivated by His infinite grace and mercy, established His covenant of grace with man, promising to deliver His chosen ones from their sinful condition, removing the curse of their sin, reconciling them to Himself, and restoring them to eternal life in a personal relationship with the triune God.

We believe that God the Son, the second person of the triune, eternal God, took upon Himself human form being born of a virgin, living a sinless life of perfect and exemplary obedience to the Father, obeying all His commands and fulfilling all His purposes, revealing to man the glory, mercy, grace, and truth of the Father. In teaching man the way of life, willingly giving up His life, being put to death on the cross by sinful men, in order to pay the penalty for sin on behalf of those chosen and thus redeeming the created world from the effects of sin. He rose from the dead on the third day, thereby removing the power of the curse of death and sin from mankind and creation, ascending to the right hand of the Father where he intercedes for His people, enabling them to grow as obedient children of God. He is coming again to judge all men and to complete the process of salvation.

We believe that God the Holy Spirit, the third person of the triune God, testifies of Jesus Christ, convicts the world of sin, regenerates, indwells, bestows gifts on believers and guides and empowers them to live a holy life that glorifies God.

We believe that the first man and the first woman did not remain in their original perfect state because they willfully and consciously chose to disobey their Creator’s command, thus incurring His wrath and condemnation, necessarily alienating themselves from their Creator and from one another. Falling from that perfect state in which they were created, they brought upon themselves and all succeeding generations of mankind the curse of inability to choose to obey God from the heart, proneness to sin, and sin’s many and varied destructive effects, the greatest of which is death.

We believe that salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, totally apart from human merit, and that the act of regeneration, which is a work of grace performed by the Holy Spirit, produces a new creature in Christ.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the everlasting blessedness of the just, and the everlasting punishment of the unjust.

We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in Christ.

We believe that all believers are under the mandate of Jesus Christ to proclaim the Gospel to the entire world.

A core philosophy at CLA is that we believe only a redeemed person can understand truth as it is communicated by the Holy Spirit in life and through the Word of God. Therefore, education is best accomplished in an environment of redeemed people where all truth is God’s truth. The curriculum emphasizes the unity of all truth in the midst of diversity and the development of an eternal perspective in the life of the Christian student. Because regeneration is solely the (monergistic) work of the Holy Spirit, CLA will not presume the salvation of all students and, therefore, will present the Gospel invitation. CLA believes that God created, sustains, and will consummate all things through the power of His Spirit, who is the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ.