Head of School

Position Description

HCCS is searching for a like-minded (SoF included below) Head of School who is unashamedly Christian, is committed to the Classical model, and wants to lead, train, and disciple others accordingly. This is a unique opportunity for the new Head of School to hire his or her administration and faculty, and to have influence over every facet of the school from the beginning. A job description is available upon request. If interested, please email us your resume’.

In Christ,

Dr. Jared Moore

Chairman of the Board at HCCS

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Statement of Faith

The HCCS SoF  is written to serve as theological stakes by which enrollment, hiring, and instruction will take place. Cultural convictions are stated, as well, and are included as key components to enrollment, hiring, and instruction. Parents, faculty, and Board members are all required to sign it as a declaration of shared belief.

I. Holy Scripture The Bible, consisting of sixty-six books in the Old and New Testaments, is without error and cannot be wrong. It is the only sufficient rule for all saving knowledge, faith, obedience, and life that pleases God. The Apocrypha, though historically useful, is not Holy Scripture. Every word in the original texts of the Bible is inspired by God and carries His authority. The perfect rule for interpreting Scripture is Scripture itself. When a passage is hard to understand, it must be explained by other passages of Scripture that speak more clearly.

II. God, the Holy Trinity There is one God, who eternally exists in three distinct Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is personal, sovereign, eternal, loving, holy, just, unchanging, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-present, all-wise, and beyond full human understanding. The Father is neither begotten nor proceeding. The Son is eternally begotten of the Father. The Holy Spirit eternally proceeds from the Father and the Son. These three Persons are one God, one divine Nature, and have no beginning or end. God is singular and infinite, existing entirely from Himself. He has no parts and no needs. He is in control of all things and works everything according to His righteous will for His glory, characterized by holy love, mercy, and justice. He rewards the faithful, hates sin, and judges the guilty.

III. Creation God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—created all things in six days out of nothing, for His own glory, without evolution. Everything was created very good. God alone determines the design and purpose of His creation. He made humanity, male and female, in His image to reflect Him.

IV. Sin God created Adam and Eve very good, but the serpent deceived Eve, and she sinned. Adam, who was not deceived, knowingly sinned. Because of Adam’s sin, all humans are conceived in and dead in sin, and are sinners by nature, inclination, and choice. All are guilty in Adam and are children of wrath by nature. Before salvation, all people can do toward God is to sin due to our corrupt natures, until the Holy Spirit draws us to Christ. This corrupt nature remains in Christians, and although it is forgiven and mortified in Christ, both itself and the first impulses it produces are truly and properly sin.

V. God the Son, Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is God the Son Incarnate. He is truly God and truly Man. In the virgin Mary’s womb, God the Son, by His Holy Spirit, united with a human nature. He is one divine Person with two natures—divine and human—united without mixture and distinct without separation. God chose and ordained the Lord Jesus to be the Mediator between God and humanity. He is the true Prophet, Priest, and King, the Head and Savior of the church. He performed miracles, lived a sinless life, is the heir of all things, and will judge the world. From eternity, God the Father gave a people to Jesus that He would redeem, call, justify, sanctify, and glorify. He willingly took on the role of Mediator, fulfilling the law, bearing our punishment, without corruption, through His crucifixion, death, and burial. He rose from the dead on the third day, ascended to heaven to intercede for His church at His Father’s right hand, and will return to judge all. Through His perfect obedience and sacrifice, Jesus fully satisfied God’s justice, procured reconciliation, and purchased an everlasting inheritance in heaven for all those the Father gave Him. Even before Jesus came, Old Testament believers were saved by grace through faith in Him. They trusted God’s promises and types as they participated in ceremonies and sacrifices, and looked ahead in faith to the Seed of the woman who would crush the serpent’s head, Abraham’s Seed, David’s Son, and the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

VI. God the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit is truly God. He inspired holy men to write the Bible and enables people to understand it. He exalts Christ, convicts people of sin, righteousness, and judgment, calls sinners to the Savior, and effects regeneration. Christ baptizes believers with the Holy Spirit at regeneration into the church. The Holy Spirit cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and gives spiritual gifts to serve God in His church. He seals the believer to the day of final redemption. His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of Christ. He enlightens and empowers believers to worship, evangelize, and serve God, His church, and others.

VII. Salvation The gospel is to be preached and offered to all. By grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone, God justifies us, forgiving our sins and declaring us righteous, for His glory alone. Through repentance and faith, God credits Christ’s sinless life and atoning death to Christians. We are righteous in Christ, and our sins are fully paid for.

VIII. Sanctification Though Christians cannot be sinless in this life due to our sinful flesh, God gradually sanctifies His church on earth through His word and Holy Spirit. In Christ, sin no longer controls believers. Through repentance, faith, and obedience, its lusts are increasingly put to death, and we grow in all saving graces and the practice of true holiness. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, all true Christians are enabled to live for Jesus and will persevere in doing so.

IX. Last Things At the right time, Jesus will return visibly to the earth. The dead will rise, and He will judge everyone in righteousness. The unrighteous will face eternal punishment in hell. The righteous, in resurrected and glorified bodies, will receive our reward and will rule and reign with Christ in a new heaven and new earth forevermore.

 

Cultural Convictions
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X. Creation Order By God’s design, the husband is the Christ-like head of the wife, loving her as Christ loves His church, giving Himself up for her and washing her with God’s word. Wives should voluntarily respect and submit to their husbands, as to Christ. The spiritual war waged on this world is best engaged in by men as distinctly men and women as distinctly women. The biblical norm is that a man will marry a woman and the two will have children. Singleness is the exception, not the rule, according to the Bible.

XI. Biblical Anthropology Classical Christian schools should disciple students toward their distinct callings as men and women, celebrating biblical masculinity and femininity. To please God concerning the family, a man’s primary responsibility is to provide for, protect, and lead in obedience to God. A woman’s primary responsibility is to nurture and care for her home and follow her husband. Concerning earning a living and vocation, husbands must work, and wives are at liberty to work, as long as their primary responsibilities are not neglected.

XII. Biblical Sexuality God’s standard for sexuality is given in Scripture, especially Genesis 2:20-25 and Mark 10:2-9. God creates everyone as male or female from conception. Males are God’s image-bearers who will grow to produce small reproductive cells; females are God’s image-bearers who will grow to produce large reproductive cells. If there are birth defects, anomalies, or exceptions that are contrary to this original design, males and females are still defined by God’s original design, not the exceptions. Anything against God’s design must be repented of and rejected. Biblical sexuality is limited to one man and one woman united in the covenant of marriage for life. Sexual inclinations, desires, and actions toward someone other than one’s spouse are sin. Also, when a person has unnatural inclinations, desires, or actions—homosexual, transgender, or anything else—he or she is sinning and is morally culpable.

XIII. Christian Education All education is discipleship, so fulfilling the Great Commission requires teaching all that Christ commands. As Lord, Jesus is central to true education. Christian fathers, as the heads of their households, with their brides by their side, are called by God to lead their children in all discipleship.

XIV. Partiality God loves all people equally, regardless of race or ethnicity. Racism, the sin of partiality, is any prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or group based on their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group. Scripture alone provides the authority to address the sin of racism, not Critical Theory, which adds sin upon sin.

XV. Civil Justice The civil magistrate is God’s deacon who wields the power of the sword for justice. All humans, preborn and born, deserve equal protection under the law as God’s image-bearers. Society should be protected from sexual sins that violate the marriage covenant or pervert God’s good design, such as adultery, homosexuality, gender transitions, and pedophilia. Critical Theory and its variants (Race, Intersectionality, Queer, Feminist, Marxist, Postcolonial, Environmental) are based on materialistic premises, cannot be reconciled with Christian anthropology, and pervert civic justice. Since these theories have enormous influence in broader society and have proven insidious within organizations, Christians should be vigilant and recommit to understanding and articulating biblical principles of justice.

XVI. Christian Civics Christians are commanded to love our neighbors, submit to governing authorities, and seek the good of the societies in which we live. Since Scripture is the supreme standard for all human conduct, its principles of righteousness direct Christians toward seeing all nations honor Christ as Lord, to fulfill the two greatest commandments, to love God and others. Fundamental human liberties come from God and can only be sustained within a society that broadly knows and obeys His law.

XVII. Contemporary Challenges The reality of our fallen world means that helpful gains in the church and society are the product of providential blessing and careful labor. Therefore, they are precious and to be conserved. Our desire is to stand with the historic church in matters of contemporary controversy. We are unembarrassed to believe what Christians have always believed according to the Bible, regardless of societal fashions.[1]

[1] This confession leans on the Second London Baptist Confession (1689), the New Hampshire Confession (1833), the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, and the cultural distinctions of Credo Alliance.