[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” parallax=”true” parallax_speed=”0.6″ css=”.vc_custom_1637186447097{padding-top: 175px !important;padding-bottom: 175px !important;background-image: url(https://balletexcelsior.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FaithStatement.jpg?id=3216) !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:justify|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” color=”custom” background_style=”rounded” custom_color=”#9c8d6a”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Faith Statement” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInDown”]THE BIBLE is the inspired and only infallible written work of God.
GOD is the creator of all things, including the arts. (Gen. 4:21) God created the arts so that, through us, He could express Himself, glorify Himself, and communicate with us.
JESUS CHRIST is the only means of being cleansed from sin through repentance and faith in the precious blood of Jesus Christ. The arts can be used to communicate the message of salvation and to bring persons to repentance and salvation in Jesus.
AUTHORITY OF THE GREAT COMMISSION is given by Jesus to His disciples, found in:
- Matthew: 28:19: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
- I Corinthians 9:22-23: I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. And I do all things for the sake of the Gospel, that I may become a fellow partaker of it.
- Matthew: 25:4: Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of mine; the least of them, you did it to me.
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Through Him all things were made, and WITHOUT HIM nothing was made that has been made.
John 1:3
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