Our Mission and Faith
Legacy
Knox Academy is committed to supporting families in the instruction of their children using a classical model of education with a Christian worldview.
Family
Our school’s vision is for God’s children, that they would learn to think critically and apply discernment and understanding to the world around them.
Truth
We want our students to stand on the sure foundation of Scripture with every resolve that can be attained by knowledge, testing, and wise scrutiny.
Piety
We want our students to graciously honor authority and willingly accept responsibility in school, as well as in their families, churches, and communities.
Virtue
We want our students to learn to properly perceive truth, goodness, and beauty and to pursue these values for the rest of their lives.
Christ
Above all things our hope is that when Knox students leave our program, they will have set their life’s anchor in Christ (John 17:3).
Statement of Faith
We believe that the Bible is the only inerrant word of God having supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct (2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:21).
We believe that there is only one totally sovereign God, eternally present in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19, 2 Corinthians 13:14, 1 Peter 1:2).
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ (Colossians 2:9), His conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23), so that He possesses two natures in one person, being fully human and fully divine (Philippians 2:5-8), His sinless life (Hebrews 4:15), His miracles (Acts 2:22), His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood (Romans 5:8-11), His bodily resurrection (Romans 1:4, John 20:27), His ascension to the right hand of the Father (Colossians 3:1), and His future personal return in power and glory (Acts 1:11, Revelation 19:11-16).
We believe everything seen and unseen came into being by God’s spoken Word, and that all was created good. Human beings are the crown of God’s creation, created male and female in His image (Genesis 1:1-31, John 1:1-3).
We believe mankind was created for communion with and worship of God (Deuteronomy 6:5, Psalm 14:2).
We believe that all people are by nature separated from God because of the universal sinfulness and guilt of human nature since the fall of Adam, rendering man subject to God’s wrath and condemnation (Romans 3:23, 6:23).
We believe that salvation, redemption and forgiveness are freely offered to all by faith in Jesus Christ through grace apart from works (Ephesians 2:8-9).
We believe that the sacrificial death on the cross of Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, secured redemption from the guilt, penalty, power and presence of sin (Romans 8:2).
We believe that the work of the Holy Spirit is essential to make the death of Christ effective in the individual sinner, granting him repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ (John 3:1-17), and that the indwelling Holy Spirit in the believer produces holiness so that the faith that justifies him is accompanied by other gifts and graces (Romans 5:1-5).
We believe in the resurrection of the dead of all ages on the Last Day followed by the Final Judgement and the granting of the eternal inheritance of the New Heavens and Earth to the saved (Romans 8:11), and the consigning of the lost to eternal punishment (Revelation 20:12-15).
We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 12:12-27).
We believe We believe that God has ordained to parents the responsibility for the education of their children (Deuteronomy 6:5-7).
WHO WAS JOHN KNOX?
John Knox was a highly educated man who viewed the Bible as a divine revelation and searched its contents for an understanding of God and His creation. He was a man of incredible vision and courage and, like all the Reformers, he stood against great political and cultural pressure in order to proclaim the truth and purity of the Gospel and Biblical doctrine. He was exemplary in his understanding of the great responsibility that comes with preaching the truth.
In 1547 he was presented with his first call into ministry as a preacher for the Scottish Protestant movement. The weight of this responsibility descended upon him with such force that he broke down and wept and retired to fast and pray for three days before accepting. Such was his understanding of the importance of the pulpit that when he ascended the platform to deliver his first sermon it was to make his loyalties, and his enemies, clear. Preaching forcefully from Daniel seven, Knox drew comparisons between the Pope and the Antichrist, and made clear his allegiance to Scriptural authority alone and his understanding of justification by faith alone.
So strong was his denouncement of Rome that in short order, the French Navy would storm the walls of St. Andrews Castle and take John Knox, along with many other Scottish Protestants and nobility, captive as galley slaves, subject to the French Catholic crown. He spent a full 19 months in the open weather rowing ships, and his health was never fully restored. But Knox’ faith was not shaken.
He would spend the rest of his life striving with the ruling political forces of his day, denouncing not only the papacy but also the divine right of kings. Knox believed in a society where an educated population determines democratically how they are to be governed and where a leader is subject under God to the very laws that they would seek to apply to their subjects.
