What We Believe
Believing, belonging, and becoming
黄大仙高手论坛鈥檚 educational community is grounded in this primary belief:
We believe that we belong first of all to Jesus Christ.
This means that at Calvin, your passions, your dreams, and your talents will meet a heart and mind education grounded in firm Christian conviction and shaped in a strong Christian community. You will be challenged to expand your mind, mature in your beliefs, and cultivate a virtuous life that honors God by blessing your neighbor.
What we believe
Behind Calvin鈥檚 mission of equipping students to be agents of renewal in the world is a set of deep beliefs tied to the Reformed tradition of historic Christianity.
God and Creation
God, who is sovereign over all, created all things, and they were good. He gave human beings, made in his image, the responsibility of caring for this world.
Sin
Sin entered the world through humanity鈥檚 rebellion against God, tainting every aspect of creation. Nevertheless God graciously preserves the world, holding all things in his care.
Christ and Redemption
In his saving grace, God kept his promises by sending Jesus Christ to redeem all things through his death and resurrection. Jesus calls all people to salvation through faith in him alone.
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit continues God鈥檚 creative and restorative work in the world, gathering people from every tongue, tribe, and nation into the body of Christ and empowering them for service.
The Bible
The Bible is the authoritative, Spirit-breathed Word of God, fully reliable in leading believers to know God and to walk with Christ in newness of life.
Living our beliefs in community
In all we do at Calvin鈥攊n our teaching and learning, in athletics and the arts, in campus life and community activities鈥攚e aim to live Coram Deo, before the face of God. You won鈥檛 do this alone. You will share, test, explore, and deepen your beliefs in a community, as people who belong together as members of Christ鈥檚 body.
As a learning community rooted in the historic Reformed tradition of Christianity, we:
- Are not afraid of new challenges
- Seek to understand and apply the tradition's deepest convictions in new contexts
- Joyfully pursue 鈥渨hatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, what is admirable鈥 as gifts to us in Jesus Christ.
We will ask you to wrestle with hard questions in a community that takes both Christian faith and Christian freedom seriously.
Faith shapes who students become
At Calvin, an education doesn鈥檛 only convey knowledge but also imparts virtues. We highlight the virtues taught by Reformed Christianity out of the conviction that while the skills you need for a job may change, the passions you will develop here can last a lifetime.
- Justice: honoring the gifts and rights of each person
- Courage: meeting controversy, challenges, and innovations with faith and love
- Compassion: seeing the needs of others and recognizing God鈥檚 image in them
- Discipline: becoming a good steward of God鈥檚 gifts, accountable and trustworthy
- Humility: learning from all you encounter, offering your life as a pleasing sacrifice to God
Our invitation to you
We invite you to bring all that you are鈥攎ind, body, and soul鈥攖o Calvin, to join us in following and furthering God鈥檚 ways in His world.