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Philosophy
Typically, students who enroll at Messenger College desire
to develop
their potential and to make a meaningful contribution to their world.
The faculty and administration have an important role in assisting each
student to become that kind of person. At Messenger College, we realize
that each student is comprised of spirit as well as mind and body.
Without compromising academic standards, Messenger College emphasizes
the importance of developing personal discipline, evangelical Christian
values, and character along with a rich and authentic spiritual life.
Our Christian philosophy of education is based on our commitment to the
developmental needs of the whole student—with the intent to
graduate an integrated person: spiritually alive, intellectually alert,
and physically disciplined.
Statement of Faith
As a Christian College operating under the auspices of the Pentecostal
Church of God, Messenger College is firmly committed to the
evangelical, pentecostal position of its sponsoring denomination.
Messenger College holds to the following truths.
We believe:
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that the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
are
the inspired Word of God presenting to us the complete revelation of
His will for the salvation of men, and constituting the divine and only
rule of Christian faith and practice; |
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in the special creation of the existing space-time
universe and all its basic systems and kinds of organisms in the six
literal days of the creation. Accordingly, we believe in the
historicity of the first eleven chapters of Genesis; |
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in the special creation of the existing space-time
universe and all its basic systems and kinds of organisms in the six
literal days of the creation. Accordingly, we believe in the
historicity of the first eleven chapters of Genesis; |
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in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His
virgin
birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and
atoning death on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His
ascension to the right hand of the Father and in His personal return in
power and glory; |
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that regeneration by the Holy Ghost for the
salvation
of lost and sinful man, through faith in the shed blood of Jesus
Christ, is absolutely essential; |
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in a life of holiness, without which no man can
see the
Lord, through sanctification as a definite, yet progressive, work of
grace; |
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in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, received
subsequent
to the new birth, with the speaking in other tongues, as the Spirit
gives utterance, as the initial physical sign and evidence - and in the
Holy Spirit as a person, functioning to draw individuals unto salvation
and fill the seeking believer; |
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in water baptism by immersion for believers only,
which
is a direct commandment of our Lord, in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; |
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in the Lord’s Supper and washing of the
saints’ feet; |
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that divine healing is provided for in the
atonement
and is available to all who truly believe; |
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in the pre-millennial second coming of Jesus:
first, to
resurrect the righteous dead and to catch away the living saints to
meet Him in the air; and second, to reign on the earth a thousand years; |
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in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and
the
lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that
are lost unto the resurrection of damnation; and |
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in the existence of an evil spirit and adversary,
called Satan, who functions as personal tempter and accuser. |
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