Beliefs

Our beliefs make Berean Baptist Academy what it is and shape those who attend it. Berean Baptist Academy ultimately desires to produce Christian adults who are ready to assume a productive role in society.

The Mission

The mission of Berean Baptist Academy (BBA) is to develop students to become disciples of Christ who strive for academic excellence.

The Mission Understood

Disciples of Christ (DoC) believe in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, as evidenced by Christlike transformation. The aim is to produce disciples who proclaim Christ to make disciples of others (Phi 3:20).

• DoC believe in Jesus as the Christ and their personal Savior and Lord through the Gospel, His death, burial, and resurrection, for their sins.
• DoC surrenders to Jesus as the King, ruling and reigning in their lives.
• DoC exists to glorify God through who they are and everything they do.
• DoC follow Jesus and grow in Christlikeness through their thinking, being, doing, and proclaiming.
• DoC understands a shared responsibility among teachers, students, parents, guardians, and families to help develop a consistent Kingdom education culture, whether at home, on campus, or off-campus, but not at the expense of a student’s responsibility of self-discipline and personal accountability.
• DoC profess their relationship with Jesus as Savior and Lord through believer’s baptism and confess their faith to others.
• DoC strives to be filled with, led by, and manifest the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
• DoC desires to be disciples who make disciples.
• DoC grows as Bible self-feeders, learning the gospel, the metanarrative (creation, fall, redemption, and new creation), and orthodox doctrine.
• DoC is good stewards who care for things godly, like the environment, health, talents, abilities, property, economics, and other manageable entities.
• DoC identifies as citizens of heaven first and foremost but is also a good citizen of their country.

 Academic Excellence (AE) is characterized by genuine learning, knowledge, and understanding beyond grades or test scores. It is rooted in the mission of BBA to prepare students academically for a life of service to King Jesus, society, the church, and others as image bearers of God (Pro 1:5).

• AE emphasizes the creation of a biblical worldview that challenges students to see all things through the lens of God’s Word as truth.
• AE encourages teamwork, encouragement, and mutual accountability within the BBA staff to ensure all efforts align with best practices and academic outcomes.
• AE is a shared responsibility among teachers, students, parents, guardians, and families, emphasizing partnership in pursuit of academic goals, but not at the expense of a student’s responsibility to self-learn and develop a work ethic.
• AE is grounded in reading and comprehending the written word in all disciplines; these students can think, read, speak, and write well.
• AE reflects the glory of God through the stewardship of students’ intellectual gifts, talents, and abilities.
• AE acknowledges and celebrates each student’s abilities and skills, promoting success at varying levels of achievement based on the gift of God.
• AE fosters the foundations necessary for critical thinking, research, and problem-solving skills.
• AE addresses distractions such as apathy, laziness, carelessness, tardiness, incompleteness, and procrastination with loving correction to foster growth and responsibility.
• AE prioritizes honesty, integrity, and doing one’s work while rejecting cheating, plagiarism, and over-reliance on AI to uphold genuine learning.
• AE incorporates challenging assignments, projects, and assessments in and out of the classroom.
• AE necessitates continuous professional development of faculty and the maintenance of facilities necessary to achieve the desired student outcomes.
• AE ensures that student-athletes maintain academic priorities, preventing extracurriculars from interfering with or detracting from their God-given purpose for education.

The Vision

As a ministry of Berean Baptist Church, BBA provides kingdom education for students from Fayetteville, Fort Liberty, and worldwide in grades K3-12 through an open enrollment that produces Christlike young adults who contribute to society and proclaim Christ to make disciples.

The Core Values

Our mission and these five core values guide all that we do.

God Glorifying: Rendering praise, honor, and worship to God through who we are and how we live. God created mankind for Him; this is our purpose; each person exists to point to God (1Co 10:31). We encourage students to glorify God in everything they are and do.

Love: Expressing selfless actions of sacrificial affection that seek the best for others. Relational love for God and others is embodied in the thought that God loved the world enough to provide Christ to die for our sins so that believers might have eternal life (Rom 5:8). We teach our students to love God with our entire being and to love our neighbors as ourselves, in which we value and support them.

Biblically Grounded: Living in a way that aligns with and is deeply rooted in the teachings and principles of God’s Word. The Bible is God’s story, with the Gospel, Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection at its core, and a metanarrative of Creation, Fall, Redemption, and New Creation throughout God’s Word (2Ti 3:16-17). We challenge our students to develop a biblical worldview, their framework for understanding and interpreting life.

 Christlikeness: Changing personally, being transformed, both internally and externally, to be more like Jesus. Man’s responsibility is to surrender to the Holy Spirit for God’s sanctifying work of remaking us in Christ’s image (Rom 12:2). We point students to the personhood of Christ as to how we should be different than those of the world.

 Unity: Joining together on the same mission with unity of Spirit. We seek the harmony within the community that Jesus prayed for in His followers, working as one for the glory of God and the advancement of Christ’s kingdom (John 17:20-21). We strive for unity to be more than just working together. It’s about all of us, administration, faculty, staff, students, and families, building a cohesive community that respects diverse perspectives within the bounds of holiness and scripture.