CORE VALUES

To fulfill its mission, Maranatha Baptist Seminary focuses its attention on the following Core Values:

BIBLICAL AUTHORITY:

Maranatha believes in verbal, plenary inspiration. The Bible is the sole authority for faith and practice and is inerrant in all matters it addresses. The literal, historical-grammatical approach to the interpretation of God’s Word is emphasized through the entire curriculum.

BAPTIST HERITAGE:

Maranatha stands without apology for the Baptist distinctives. Baptist principles and polity are taught in the classroom and practiced in the personal ministries of each faculty member.

DISPENSATIONAL HERMENEUTICS:

Maranatha emphasizes the pretribulational rapture of all believers and the premillennial return and reign of Jesus Christ, focusing on a hermeneutic that sees a distinct difference between Israel and the church.

EVANGELISTIC EMPHASIS:

Maranatha challenges and prepares students to have warm, soul-winners’ hearts and to build strong evangelistic churches. The faculty includes teachers who have many years of experience in building and developing soul-winning churches.

LOCAL CHURCH FOCUS:

Maranatha teaches that the local church is God’s ordained institution to carry out His work in this age. The primacy of the local church in scriptural teaching is emphasized both in doctrine and practice. Separatist in understanding, Maranatha also seeks to develop avenues of biblical fellowship within the confines of Biblical truth but rejects the unholy alliances of part of the current ecclesiological scene.

THEOLOGICAL COMPREHENSION:

Maranatha assists students in their understanding of current trends and theological issues in Christianity today, with biblical answers to those trends and issues. Maranatha also assists students in the development of a willingness to separate from doctrinal error and unbiblical positions.

SEPARATIST POSITION:

Maranatha emphasizes the biblical teaching concerning personal and ecclesiastical fellowship and separation.

BIBLICAL LEADERSHIP AND DISCERNMENT:

Maranatha seeks to equip its students with the skills of Biblical discernment so that they will be able to develop a scripturally accurate and God-blessed response to ecclesiastical and moral issues which can be accurately assessed and appropriately addressed.

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