I recently read an article about a University of Virginia survey in which graduates were asked what type of education they would recommend to new students considering the careers they currently represented. Ninety-one percent of them answered that they would pursue a liberal arts degree. It should not surprise us that this would be the answer from a secular school.
Then the article stated the University of Virginia discussed what they thought were the key skills any person should gain out of their college education. Here is what they concluded:
These are, without doubt, key skills you want to learn in college. It really isn't important that you learn a particular strategy on making money (how to make a living), but it is much more important in these college years of a person's life that students learn how to communicate well, how to work with people, and how to think analytically (in other words, how to really live).
From an educational point of view, these are three goals of Florida Bible College, but not the three goals of the college. These and all goals must be founded on sound Bible doctrine with correct theological understanding. The education is to be Bible and Christ centered.
Perhaps a simplified way to understand this is the education received from Florida Bible College would equip students to be:
It is our intimacy with the Lord through an accurate understanding and application of God's Word that fuels our outreach for the Lord. As the student goes deeper into the Word, it is likely they will go wider for the Lord.
Can you imagine the uniqueness of Florida Bible College?
A Bible college that has a theologically sound faculty and staff with a healthy balance of inward, upward, and outward commitment to modeling a Christ-like lifestyle while teaching and mentoring the next generation of servants/leaders? Academically and spiritually living and learning to grow with the students!
With all of my heart and soul, I truly believe what we are endeavoring to do at Florida Bible College is to bring together what real education is, teaching people the kind of skills that make them effective in the world, using the Word of God as the very foundation. If that is the kind of education you want students to have, then Florida Bible College is the best place to support, and we can commend it unhesitatingly to you!
Dr. Stan Ponz
President
GRACE
The true child of God is not under the Law but under grace; he is saved by grace and disciplined by grace.
CLARITY OF THE GOSPEL
Man is saved by undeserved mercy through faith, and nothing of man enters into his salvation; it is a free gift. Man's efforts, regardless of how good or well intended, before or after salvation, have nothing to do with it. Salvation is by the finished work of Christ and nothing can be added to it. Every true child of God possesses eternal life and is, therefore, safe and secure for all eternity, being justified by faith, sanctified by God, and sealed by the Holy Spirit; he cannot lose his salvation. Salvation is not the result of what we do, but is by receiving what God has done for us. Man can be certain of his salvation now, and his salvation cannot be lost because eternal life is eternal.
EVANGELISM
It is every Christian's privilege and duty to make clear God's plan of salvation wherever and in whatever vocation he or she may be.
FAITHFULNESS
It is a tragedy that many Christians live shallow Christian lives. FBC is dedicated to the task of training Christian men and women in the importance of total dedication and making Jesus the Lord of their lives, not to be saved, but because they are saved.
Florida Bible College continues to mature believers in Jesus Christ into fully-committed, biblically grace-oriented, knowledgeable, articulate, balanced, evangelistic disciples who are faithful, competent, and effective in serving as the hands and feet and voice of Jesus in the world ,and in His church.
Since its inception in 1962, Florida Bible College has been committed to offering comprehensive education in the Bible for those who know Jesus Christ as Savior and want to serve Him.
Our salvation begins with the grace of God through the clear and simple message of everlasting life by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, for the glory of God alone (Ephesians 2:8-9). It is by this same grace that, as God's workmanship, we are being refined into His image as mature disciples (Ephesians 2:10).
We are called to live in the wonderful grace and liberty in Christ, for it is in this environment of freedom that we are designed to flourish. The fruitful and victorious life of a mature disciple of Jesus Christ is not achieved or characterized by a strict adherence to a legalistic moral code or by the avoidance of a lengthy litany of prohibited behaviors.
Regardless of how He gifts us, or in what capacity He chooses to use us, by His grace we can be diligent students of His Word, and faithful evangels to the world. Florida Bible College can equip you to be an effective communicator who can share the faith in such a way that those you teach will be able to teach others. "You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also." (2 Timothy 2:1, 2)
The mission of Florida Bible College is to equip students for a life of lasting commitment to Jesus Christ, biblical faithfulness, moral integrity, intellectual development and lasting contribution to God's mission today.
Having first received everlasting life by faith alone in Christ alone ...
Commitment to Christ, is evidenced by:
Biblical Faithfulness, as evidenced by:
Moral Integrity, as evidenced by:
Intellectual Development, as evidenced by:
A Life of Lasting Contribution to God's mission today, as evidenced by:
Florida Bible College Statement of Faith