Faith Based Education & Philosophy Mountain View Lutheran School is a school in modern America. Accordingly, we are committed to:1. Engage a faculty and staff who are professionally prepared and personally sensitive to youth; 2. Develop an appreciation of the worth of the individual and a willingness to help the student and the colleague to develop their own worth; 3. Utilize a variety of creative educational methodologies designed to serve student needs; 4. Follow a complete program which reflects the best of both traditional and contemporary standards of school excellence; 5. Provide a ministry of education within our church and community. Further, Mountain View Lutheran School is a Christian School. Accordingly, this is what we believe: 1. We believe that our God is a Triune God and we have faith in His saving grace as confessed by the one, holy, and apostolic Church; 2. We believe that the entire Bible is the divine and inspired Word of God. God is revealed in our Lord Jesus Christ, in His Holy Scriptures, and is active in our every day lives; 3. We believe that sin - separation from God through disobedience - places all people under God’s eternal judgment. 4. We believe that through the redeeming death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and through Him only, the curse and threat of sin is completely removed and salvation possible. 5. We believe that salvation is a gift of God offered at the initiative of His love, not based on the merit of people. 6. We believe that this gift of salvation is offered to all who, by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ, receive Him as Savior and Lord. 7. We believe that life is meaningful because it is a gift from God; we believe that the universe is God’s handiwork; 8. We believe that Mountain View Lutheran School is part of God’s church and that we therefore have a ministry to each other. Further, Mountain View Lutheran School is a Lutheran Christian School. Accordingly, we: 1. Accept the historical Lutheran Confessions; 2. Appreciate our Lutheran heritage; 3. Believe in the power of forgiveness and of the Sacraments (baptism and holy communion) in interpersonal relations 4. Recognize that God has called all persons to use their gifts in service to Him; 5. Encourage the freedom of the individual Christian, so that he/she may responsibly serve others. |
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