What We Believe

The Depot Christian School is a non-denominational school which will explicitly teach the Word of God throughout each grade level. The following beliefs based on scripture will be upheld and defended. 

  1. The Holy Scriptures are the very Word of God, they are verbally inspired in all parts and wholly without error as originally revealed, sufficient in themselves, and man’s only infallible rule to life. (Mt. 5:18; Mark l2:26, 36; 13:11; Lk. 24:27, 44; John 5:39; 10:35; 16:13; 17:17; Acts 1:16; 17:23; 18:28; 26:22-23; 28:23; Rom. 15:4; I Cor. 2:13; 10:11; II Tim. 3:16; II Pet 1:21) 

  1. There is One Triune God eternally existent in three persons; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These three are one God, having the same attributes, being worthy of the same homage and love. (Mt. 28:18-19; Mark 12:29; John 1:14; 4:24; 5:26; Acts 5:3-4; II Cor. 13:14; Heb. 1:1-3) 

  1. The Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Second Person of the Triune God, is the eternal Word and Only Begotten Son, and our great God and Savior, was born of the Virgin Mary, and became both truly God and truly Man, one Person with two natures. (Mt. 1-23; 20:28; Lk. 1:30-35; John 1:1, 14; 3:16; 8:46; Rom. 9:5; Gal. 3:13; Phil. 2:5-8; Col. 2:9; Titus 3:13; Heb. 4:14; 9:24; I John 2:1) The Holy Spirit, who is the Third Person of the Triune God, dwells in every believer from the moment of conversion and never departs from the church, nor from the weakest of the saints. While uniting all saints in one body, He also restrains the evil on the earth and convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. (John 14:16-17; 16:7-15; Rom. 8:9; I Cor. 6:19; Eph. 2:22; II Thes. 2:7) 

  1. Man, though originally created in the image and likeness of God, has become separated from, and spiritually dead to God through Adam’s sin. (Gen. 1-26; 2:17; 6:5; Lev. 17:11; Ps. 14:1-3; 51:5; Jer. 17:9; Mt. 19:4; John 3:6; 5:40; 6:35; Rom. 3:10-19, 23; 5:12; 8:6-7; Eph. 2:1-3; 4:18; I Thes. 5:23-24; I Tim. 5:6; I John 3:8) 

  1. Escape from divine judgment and salvation to eternal life is by grace through faith alone. We believe that salvation is a free and permanent gift of God that cannot be secured or earned in part or in whole by any virtue or good work of man. We believe that our redemption was accomplished solely by the blood of Christ, whose perfect deity and sinless humanity made an acceptable sacrifice to God, and whose death was a substitution for our own. (John 3:16; 6:28-29; 10:27-30; 14:6; Acts 4:12; 16:30-31; Rom. 3:24; 4:4-5; 6:23; Eph. 1:3; 2:8-9; Phil 3:4; Titus 3:5; James 1:18; I Pet. 1:18-19, 23; II Pet. 1:3) 

  1. We believe that each believer should have evidence of the fruits of divine life by walking according to the words of our Lord Jesus and in some manner bear the responsibility of taking the gospel to a lost world. (Mt. 7:16-18; Acts 1:8; John 15:16; Rom. 12:1-2; I Cor. 15:10; II Cor. 5:19; Eph. 2:8-10; Titus 2:14; I John 3:9-11, 4:19) 

  1. There is One True Church, the spiritual Body and Bride of Christ, and there are various members of this one spiritual Body who themselves should assemble together in local churches for worship, prayer, teaching, fellowship and observance of the ordinances of our Lord. (Mt. 23:20; Acts 2:47; Eph. 4:4; 5:25-32; I Cor. 11:17-22; I Thess. 4:16-47) 

  1. The coming of Jesus Christ is imminent and His return from heaven will be personal, visible and glorious. We believe that the Second Coming of Christ is the climactic event of all history and with its accompanying kingdom, resurrections and judgments constitute a fearful expectation of judgment for one who does not know Jesus Christ as personal Savior as well as a Blessed Hope of eternal life for every believer, that for which we should watch and pray. (Mark 13:33-37; Lk. 1:32-33; Acts 1:11; I Cor. 3:8-15; 15:24-28; 35-38; II Cor. 5:8; Phil. 3:20; I Thes. 4:16; Titus 2:11-13; Jude 13; Rev. 1:7, 19, 11-16; 20:11-15; 21:8; 22:20) 

  1. God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is made up of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption. Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God’s unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and His church and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage the framework for intimate companionship, the channel of sexual expression according to biblical standards, and the means for procreation. Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord. (Genesis 1:26-28; 2:15-25; 3:1-20; Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Joshua 24:15; 1 Samuel 1:26-28; Psalms 51:5; 78:1-8; 127; 128; 139:13-16; Proverbs 1:8; 5:15-20; 6:20-22; 12:4; 13:24; 14:1; 17:6; 18:22; 22:6,15; 23:13-14; 24:3; 29:15,17; 31:10-31; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; 9:9; Malachi 2:14-16; Matthew 5:31-32; 18:2-5; 19:3-9; Mark 10:6-12; Romans 1:18-32; 1 Corinthians 7:1-16; Ephesians 5:21-33; 6:1-4; Colossians 3:18-21; 1 Timothy 5:8,14; 2 Timothy 1:3-5; Titus 2:3-5; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Peter 3:1-7.) 

  1. We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. Rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person. (Gen 1:26-27.)