Purpose
Emmanuel Baptist Academy exists as a ministry of Emmanuel Baptist Church to co-labor with parents in Biblically training children to be effective Ambassadors for Christ. We provide academic instruction that is consistent with Scripture and magnifies our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Philosophy
A Christian school is Christian because of its philosophy. The Bible, our primary textbook, forms our philosophy of Christian education. Proverbs 1:7 states, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge..." Our objective in Christian education is to cultivate within each student a passion not only for developing an intimate relationship with God, but also for pursuing academic excellence. We seek to develop the whole student spiritually, academically, morally, and physically.
Curriculum
Emmanuel Baptist Academy offers classes from K4 through twelfth grade. A strong emphasis is placed on phonetic reading, writing, and arithmetic. Our curriculum is primarily a combination of materials from A Beka Book, POSACT, and Bob Jones University Press. Each year our students score above the national average on the Iowa Achievement Test.
Statement of Faith
Bibliology - We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith, life and practice.
Theology - We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Christology - We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit, was born of a virgin, and is true God and true man.
Prematology - We believe in the Holy Spirit as the third member of the Trinity and that He has both personality and is Deity
Anthropology - We believe in direct and instant creation, that it was not a process, but was completed in six, 24-hour days.
Namartiology - We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are sinners by birth and by choice, positively inclined to evil and therefore under just condemnation to eternal damnation without defense or excuse.
Soteriology - We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. And that salvation is personally appropriated by individual choice through the exercise of faith. We believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ, His bodily ascension into heaven, and His bodily presence there as our High Priest and Advocate. We believe that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit, are the children of God, and are eternally saved.
Ecclesiology - We believe that a New Testament church is a body of immersed believers, assembled for worship, service, and the spread of the Gospel in all the world. We believe that immersion is the only form of baptism revealed and commanded in the Scriptures; and that it is a step of obedience which follows after belief in Christ as personal Savior. We believe that the Lord’s Supper is a memorial of the death of Christ and that only those who have been saved through Faith in His atoning blood and are walking in obedient fellowship with Him ought to partake of it. We believe that the Bible teaches about two offices in the church, that of pastor and that of deacon. We believe that all believers are called to a life of separation in the areas of morality, personally, and ecclesiastically
Angelology - We believe that Satan is literal and personal, that he was the agent of the fall, that he is the prince of this world, and that he has been judged and shall be eternally punished.
Eschatology - We believe in the “blessed hope” of the personal, bodily, pretribulational, premillennial, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and rapture of Church Age saints. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead; both of the just and of the unjust. I believe in a literal heaven and a literal hell; that the spirits of the unsaved at death descend immediately into Hel where they are kept under punishment until the final day of judgment at which time their bodies shall be raised from the grave; they shall be judged according to their works and cast into the place of final and everlasting punishment, which is the Lake of Fire.
