Westgate Christian Academy employs teachers, and serves students, from a number of different Christian church denominations. Though denominationally we have different traditions and sometimes interpret scripture differently, God sees all true believers as part of the “body of Christ” and considers us collectively “the church.”

Westgate Board members and founders believe we are to consider one another as Matthew 22:37 directs:

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

In keeping with this command from our Lord Jesus Christ, our perspective is the same as Augustine’s 1500 years ago when he said, “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, love.” The Westgate Board and founders believe the following describe the “essentials” of the Christian faith to which we subscribe. These basic elements characterize our faith and separate it from other beliefs.

• First, we believe in the authority of Scripture, which is another way of saying that the Bible is God’s inspired, infallible, and inerrant Word. It’s the ultimate source for knowledge about God, as well as the definitive guide for our daily lives.
• Next we affirm the existence of a triune God or one God in three distinct persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This God is self-existent, eternal, unchanging, omnipotent, omnipresent, holy, righteous, and loving. God created the universe from nothing and He rules over His creation sovereignly including both human and angelic beings.
• We also hold that man is a physical and spiritual being who is created in God’s image. But because of his sin or transgression, man has lost his fellowship with God. The extent of sin is so great that its effects continue to this very day in the form of cruelty, suffering, and death.
• By God’s grace, Jesus Christ - Who is fully God and fully man - was sent to save us from our bondage to sin. We believe that Christ was born of a virgin, died for our sins, physically rose from the dead, and will one day return to judge the world and deliver His people. Faith in Christ is the only means by which mankind can escape eternal damnation and judgment.
• Finally, we recognize the church as God’s ordained institution headed by Christ. The church is composed of all believers, and is organized for worship, for fellowship, for the administration of the sacraments, for spiritual growth and support, and for evangelizing the world.