By Matthew Purucker · News Editor
The Grove City College Board of Trustees adopted a statement of faith during its November meeting. President Bradley Lingo ’00 called it a “historic step to strengthen and secure Grove City College’s commitment to its Christian mission,” in an email he sent to students on Tuesday. The statement marks the first time faculty and staff have had to affirm a binding document to teach at the college. Students do not need to affirm the statement.
Previously, faculty had to approve the college’s commitment to “biblical doctrine, ethics and practice,” according to the email. The college did not list specific values within a document.
“Grove City College has been, and will continue to be, open to all students, regardless of faith,” Lingo wrote. The statement is 396 words long and has 15 clauses to which professors and faculty Grove City College remains committed to the same Christian faith embraced by the College’s founders.
We seek, teach, and apply God’s truth in all that we do—truth revealed in the Scriptures and His creation.
We strive to exhibit the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control—in our life together as a Christ-centered community.
We aspire to love each other and our students the way Christ loves us.
We commit ourselves to the discipleship of our students and helping them grow in faith. We will shepherd and equip them to pursue their unique callings.
As we live, learn, and grow alongside our students, we pray that they will not be conformed to the patterns of the world but instead be transformed by the renew-
We believe there is one God, existing eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We believe God created all things out of nothing.
We recognize the Bible as God’s written Word and the infallible authority for faith and practice.
We believe that all people are sinners, unable to save themselves; and that salvation is a sovereign act of God’s mercy.
We believe that salvation is found only in Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God. Fully human and fully divine, He led a sinless life, died a vicarious and atoning death, rose bodily from the grave, ascended to the Father’s right hand, will return in power and glory to judge the living and the dead and consummate the culmination of more than 50 years of leadership purposely focused on strengthening and securing the college’s Christian commitments. This step does not alter our values or change our commitments — it simply reaffirms and articulates them clearly for future generations.”
mate His saving work with a new heaven and a new earth.
We believe that the Holy Spirit regenerates and indwells those who receive Jesus Christ as Savior by faith and empowers believers to understand truth and live a godly life.
We believe that God wondrfully and immutably created humans as distinctly male or female, ordained marriage as the exclusive, covenantal union between a man and a woman, and designed sexual intimacy to be expressed only within that union.
We believe all human beings—regardless of their stage of development, race, sex, class, or creed—possess equal dignity and worth as bearers of God’s divine image.
We affirm the spiritual unity of those who follow Jesus Christ, Head and Shepherd of the one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
