What drives me to study is the hunger for learning. I know that someday God would bring me back to the class room to train future pastors and Christian workers. (Philippine Grad)
I appreciate this degree programme for the excellent teaching of our professors, gaining immeasurable value in spiritual knowledge, and saving our time and money since we don't have to go abroad for studies. (Myanmar, '05 Grad)
[ABTS professors are] the life models through which our Lord continues to move, convict and shape my life. (Hong Kong Grad)
CU Confession
Cornerstone University affirms a core confession of convictions in common with the creeds of the early church, the confessions of the Reformation and all conservative Evangelical Christians.
1. We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, truth without error, clear and powerful in its message, sufficient for all of our needs, and final authority for faith and life.
2. We believe in the triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—who is holy, loving, good, wise and almighty; who created all things by his word out of nothing, who sustains, provides for and rules all things, who is our Redeemer and who will judge all people.
3. We believe that God created men and women in his image and likeness for fellowship with himself and to carry out the creation mandates; that Adam sinned and that by his disobedience the entire race was alienated from God, depraved and totally lost.
4. We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ who added full humanity to his perfect deity, obeyed God perfectly, died for our sins on the cross, rose again to defeat Satan, returned to heaven to pour out the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and to intercede for his people.
5. We believe that the triune God has provided a great salvation for those who repent of their sins and trust Christ; that he calls, regenerates, justifies, forgives, adopts, sanctifies, keeps and will glorify them.
6. We believe in the Holy Spirit who has been sent to complete and perfect in us all of the works that Jesus did for us. He convicts of sin, regenerates, sanctifies us, gifts us for ministry and assures us of our salvation.
7. We believe in the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ, the bodily resurrection and final judgment of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting, conscious punishment of the lost.
All students must affirm their agreement with this section of our doctrinal statement.
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While many fellow Christians affirm the above truths, we affirm them from within the Baptist tradition as developed at the end of the twentieth century and as reflected in the following beliefs:
1. We believe that the church is a new people of God born at Pentecost, distinct from Israel, and manifest in local congregations of baptized believers who are committed to carry out the great commission.
2. We believe that Jesus gave two ordinances to the church, baptism of believers by immersion and the Lord’s Supper.
3. We believe in the autonomy of the local congregation, the priesthood of all believers and in leadership by elected pastors and deacons.
4. We believe in the continuation of the greatest spiritual gifts: the powerful proclamation of the gospel, new birth and the fruit of the Spirit; and that the more physical gifts such as healing, raising the dead and tongues were given for the authentication of the apostolic generation.
5. We believe that Jesus Christ may return at any moment to deliver his people from the coming wrath, defeat the kingdom of Antichrist, and establish His millennial kingdom.
6. We believe that civil government is of divine appointment and that we are responsible to be good citizens. When civil government violates God’s word, we must obey God rather than man.
7. We believe in the reality of Satan and his kingdom of darkness, and that our confrontation of Satan demands belief and trust in God and the effective use of Scripture and other resources God has made available to us.