Love of God and Neighbor
We embrace our duty to love God with our whole being and to love our neighbor as ourselves. Loving God means we worship Him and seek His glory in everything we do. Loving neighbor involves making disciples of all nations, engaging in holistic ministry to the needy and in socio-political transformation.
Word of God
We are committed to the Bible as the Word of God. We aim to study the Scriptures diligently, and to obey them wholeheartedly. We foster the highest standards of scholarship while training students in ministry skills and character formation. Above all, communication of God's truth to all mankind is our focus.
Whole Church to the Whole World
We believe Christ sends the whole church as His witnesses to the whole world. The local church must mobilize all her members for witness. Church leaders are to equip the whole church for witness to Christ in all aspects of life including the home, marketplace, education, business, politics, and the arts. Our strategic contribution is to equip the equippers.
Community
We are an international community because the church is God's people from all nations. Yet as an Asian seminary, we seek to be aware of the needs of our continent and to equip students in their particular contexts. The Philippine context in which we are located provides the basic concrete situation within which we do theology, while also providing strong motivation for cross-cultural missions and ministry.
Unity
We serve the whole spectrum of the Bible-believing community, upholding our common evangelical heritage which we constantly need to define and defend. We value our God-given unity. We also value our diversity as an expression of our freedom in Christ and foster the discussion of issues with a view to strengthening our unity in Christ.
Prayer
We depend upon God for all our needs and we express this dependence by increasingly becoming a praying community. We believe prayer opens doors, sends out laborers, helps us to know God's will, and empowers our witness so that many come to faith in Christ. |
