FOUNDING PRINCIPLES

Faculty and Board members of Packer College are required to subscribe annually to the College’s Founding Principles.

• HOLY SCRIPTURE   We affirm the sufficiency and supremacy of the Bible, “God‘s Word written,” as the infallible rule of faith and life, containing all things necessary for salvation. The Bible is to be translated, read, preached, taught and obeyed in its plain and canonical sense, respectful of the Church’s historic and consensual reading.
  
  
• THE HOLY TRINITY   We believe in one true, everlasting God, the maker and preserver of all things. In the unity of the eternal Godhead there are three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
  
  
• OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST   We affirm that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of the Father and the incarnate Word of God; fully God and fully Man. We affirm that his atoning death on the cross was the full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice for sin; that we are regenerated by the grace of God, renewed by the power of the Holy Spirit, and justified through faith in the risen Christ. There is no salvation apart from Jesus Christ.
  
  
• THE HOLY SPIRIT   We affirm that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, and is given as a guarantee to every Christian, and that by his indwelling and power we are regenerated and sanctified. We affirm that the Holy Spirit calls men and women to faith and equips them with a variety of gifts for ministry.
  
  
• ANGLICAN FORMULARIES   We receive and affirm the historic Anglican Formularies as the standard of worship, doctrine and discipline: The Book of Common Prayer (1662), with the Ordinal and the 39 Articles.
  
  
• CHURCH AND SACRAMENTS   We believe the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church throughout the world to be the company of all faithful people where the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper are rightly administered.
  
  
• HOLY ORDERS   We affirm that God has called Bishops, Priests, and Deacons in historic succession to equip the people of God for the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations. We recognize the orders and jurisdiction of those Anglicans who uphold orthodox faith and practice.
  
  
• THE ANGLICAN WAY   We affirm the principled comprehensiveness of the Anglican way, with its catholic, charismatic, and evangelical traditions. We celebrate unity with fellow believers in the essential matters of the faith, while respecting freedom of conscience in secondary areas.
  
  
• HOLY LIVING   We affirm that God has called the Church, by his sanctifying Spirit, to ethical and moral purity through his word, in keeping his commandments.
  
  
• THE CONSUMATION OF ALL THINGS   We rejoice in the hope of Jesus’ coming again in glory, and while we await this final event of history, we praise him for the way he builds up his Church through his Spirit by miraculously changing lives.