OUR PHILOSOPHY
Laurel Christian School takes a spiritual approach to education. LCS is an extension of the Christian home and strives to encourage, support, and inspire students and families in a system of values consistent with the Word of God. It is our philosophy that students should have a Christ-centered view of the world, mankind and life.
This means that the entire program, the curriculum, the quality of teachers, the school policies, the methods, and the evaluation procedures will be based on a genuine commitment to the Christian faith and will be reflected in the way in which the task of education is carried out.
LCS is dedicated to academic excellence in a disciplined atmosphere.
Statement of Faith
1. We believe the Bible (defined as the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments) to be the only inspired, infallible, authoritative, and inerrant Word of God. It is objective truth.
2. We believe there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit, all of whom are the same in substance, equal in power and glory; and this Tri-unity (or Trinity) created the Heavens and the Earth, in the span of six days.
3. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary death and successful atonement, the imputation of our sin to Him and His righteousness to us, His resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, His present reign as King, and His visible and bodily return in power and glory. He is the only way, the embodiment of truth and life eternal.
4. We believe in the absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit for salvation because of the sinfulness of human nature, so that men are justified by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ shall one day raise the dead bodily, on the Day of Judgment, both the righteous and the unrighteous; at which time, the righteous shall forever see the face of Christ in unhindered glory, while the unrighteous shall endure endless punishment.
6. We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
7. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling ministry the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
8. We believe that marriage was instituted by God, and is a covenant between a man and woman alone, as one, before God.
9. We believe that Christian mothers and fathers are to see their children as "gifts from the Lord", whom they are to bring up "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord". Children are to love, honor, respect, and "obey their parents in the Lord, for this is right”.
10. We believe that every aspect of our lives is to be lived for the glory (or honor) of God under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
History
In 1982, Presbyterian Christian School was founded as a cooperative effort of committed parents, teachers and the First Presbyterian and Trinity Presbyterian Churches of Laurel.
In July of 1997, the First Trinity Presbyterian Church graciously entrusted sponsorship of PCS to Audubon Drive Bible Church, and, in June of 1999, the name was changed to Laurel Christian School.
In August of 2001, the upper grades were moved to the Westminster Presbyterian Campus. In the spring of 2005, Westminster Presbyterian Church became a co-sponsor of Laurel Christian School.