our statement of faith

Everything we do at The River Academy flows from our commitment to the Glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ.  This means every subject taught comes from a distinctly Christian worldview.  It also means all our relationships and interactions are informed by our Christian faith.  By necessity, all of our faculty and staff share in this love for God and His Word. As you would expect, the Bible is taught as its own subject, but a biblical worldview weaves its way into every subject we teach because we believe the Good News informs all things.  In other words, Christianity is not an isolated topic. Rather, it is at the center of everything we do at The River Academy.

The River Academy’s Statement of Faith does not exhaust the extent of our beliefs. The Bible itself, as the inspired and infallible Word of God that speaks with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of mankind, is the sole and final source of all that we believe. For purposes of The River Academy’s faith, doctrine, practice, policy, and discipline, our board of directors and head of school are The River Academy’s final interpretive authority on the Bible’s application.

God’s Word

We believe the Bible to be the only inerrant Word of God. It is our only ultimate and infallible authority for faith and practice.

God’s Nature

We believe God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth; we believe there is but one true and living God; that there are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and that these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory; we believe God has foreordained whatever comes to pass; that God made all things of nothing, by the word of His power, in the space of six days, and all very good; and that God preserves and governs all His creatures and all their actions.

Man’s Creation

We believe God created mankind, male and female, to bear his image and to properly display His Glory.  Men and Women were created with specific glories and duties unique to their biological sex at birth to be used in service to God and in service to mankind.  For the well-being of mankind, God, from creation, has ordained and established the institution of marriage: the joining together of one man and one woman in a unique relationship characterized by mutually exclusive affection and the public exchange of covenant vows.

Man’s Fall Into Sin

We believe our first parents, though created in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, sinned against God, by eating the forbidden fruit; and that their fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.

Christ the Savior

We believe God determined, out of His mere good pleasure, to deliver His elect out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer; we believe the only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was, and continues to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever; we believe Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the office of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king. We believe Christ as our Redeemer underwent the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, the cursed death of the cross, and burial; He rose again from the dead on the third day, ascended up into heaven, sits at the right hand of God, the Father, and is coming to judge the world at the last day.

The Work of the Holy Spirit

We believe we are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit; we believe God requires of us faith in Jesus Christ, and repentance unto life to escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin; we believe by His free grace we are effectually called, justified, and sanctified, and gathered into the visible church, out of which there is no ordinary possibility of salvation; we believe that we also are given in this life such accompanying benefits as assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end; that at death, we are made perfect in holiness, and immediately pass into glory; and our bodies, being still united in Christ, rest in their graves, till the resurrection; and at the resurrection, we shall be raised up in glory, we shall openly be acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.

Man’s Purpose

We believe man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.