Mission

Formerly Inwood Oaks Christian (Baptist) School, Living Word Christian Academy’s mission is to establish a caring, nurturing and spiritually-maturing environment where children are challenged to achieve academic excellence.  These children, upon graduation, are able to compete academically in any high school as leaders who are fully equipped to meet the challenges of our changing world.

Philosophy of Education

LWCA accomplishes its mission by:

• upholding a thoroughly Christian worldview, believing that all truth is God’s truth and that wisdom comes ultimately from God.
• demonstrating the integration of learning, faith, and life.
• challenging students to love the Lord with all their heart, soul, mind and strength.
• promoting rigorous academic standards in the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom in every area.
• fostering an atmosphere which encourages critical thinking through innovative teaching techniques in order to engage students in the discovery of truth and promote lifelong appreciation for learning.
• recognizing the parent’s ultimate responsibility for the child’s education and discipline. The school affirms the model of the family, church, and school working together to train the child.
• encouraging the expression of a Christ-like community within the ethnic, racial, cultural, and denominational diversity of our school.
• guiding students to be responsible citizens while upholding the dignity due each individual.
• inspiring a love of virtue and character through self-discipline fostered by precept and example.

Statement of Faith

We believe that the Bible is the only inspired word of God. Every part of it as originally written in Greek, Hebrew, or Aramaic is inspired of God and inerrant by His design.

We believe that there is only one True and Living God. He is Triune God—three distinct persons who are the same in nature and essence, but differ in function—known to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe that Jesus Christ is God. We believe the literal physical birth of Christ to a virgin; that He lived a sinless life; that He died on the cross for our salvation; that He literally, physically rose from the dead; and that He is now at the right hand of the Father making intercession for all who trust in Him. Christ’s death on the cross paid the penalty of sin, and removed once and for all the separation from God caused by sin, for any person who personally trusts in Christ Jesus as his Lord and Savior.

We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer permanently at the moment of spiritual birth; that the believer is to be controlled by Him every moment through surrender and obedience; and that the Holy Spirit empowers the believer to accomplish the will of God for his life.

We believe that Satan, or the devil, is the prince of demons, and is the declared adversary of God and man. However, when the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross, He limited the power of the devil.

We believe that God calls every person to accountability. The believer is required by God to obey Him in every area of life, and every believer must be diligent at learning all God desires of him.

We believe that salvation is a gift of God to all who trust in Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior, believing in the finished work of Christ on the cross and the resurrection as sufficient to secure the forgiveness of all sins, both before and after one’s spiritual rebirth. Since we could not do anything to earn our salvation, we cannot “unearn it.” We believe in the keeping power of God.

We believe that Jesus Christ will one day literally return in power and glory; that He will reward the righteous; that the unbeliever will be eternally separated from God; and that “every knee will bow…and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:10-11)