Potomac Classical Conservatory
Potomac Classical Conservatory of Alexandria is Alexandria’s first hybrid-model education program.
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Statement of Faith

Statement of Faith

The statement of faith of Potomac Classical Conservatory is limited to primary Christian doctrine. We embrace the historic tenets of Christianity as confessed in the Nicene Creed. Beyond these primary doctrines, we respect and acknowledge the primacy of the family and refer any secondary doctrinal questions to parents for clarification. Potomac Classical operates from a Reformed doctrinal perspective as summarized in the Shorter Westminster Catechism.

  • We believe that God reveals Himself through the creation, preservation, and government of the universe. We believe that God makes Himself more clearly and fully known through the Scriptures, which are the only inerrant and infallible Word of God, our ultimate and final authoritative rule for faith and practice. These Scriptures are made up of 66 books from Genesis to Revelation, the authority of which depend not upon the testimony of any man or church, and are all to be received as the Word of God.

  • We believe that there is but one living and true God, eternally existent in three Persons of one power, substance, and eternity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is perfectly wise, the overflowing fountain of all good. He is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. In all things He is limited by nothing other than His own nature and character. We believe the God we serve is holy, righteous, good, loving, and full of mercy. He is the Creator, Sustainer, and Governor of all that has been made.

  • We believe in the true deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, such that two distinct natures, divine and human, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion.

  • We believe in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

  • We believe that Adam was made from the dust of the ground and formed after God’s image and likeness, which was good, righteous, and holy. Because of Adam’s sin all mankind is in a state of rebellion against God. For the salvation of such lost and sinful men regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary.

  • We believe that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone. God freely justifies His own, by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous, for the sake of Jesus Christ alone.

  • We believe that faith without works is dead. Christ’s call to “repent and believe” means that the entire life of believers is one of repentance — turning from sin and embracing Christ.

  • We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life, as the Spirit of Christ within us enables us to do freely and cheerfully what the will of God revealed in Scripture requires to be done. We believe that good works are only those which arise from true faith, conform to God’s Word, and are done for His glory.

  • We believe God has appointed a day when He will judge the world in righteousness through Jesus Christ. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those who are saved to the resurrection of life, and those who are lost to the resurrection of damnation.

  • We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. All who are united to Christ as Head of the Church are united to one another in love and have communion in each other’s gifts and graces.

  • We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary sexes together reflect the nature of God and our creation “in His image”. (Genesis 1:26-27; 5:1, 3; 9:6; 1 Cor. 11:7; John. 3:9; cf. Rom. 8:29; 2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 4:23-24; Col. 3:10) Recognizing the damage the Fall has caused and the resulting sin and human brokenness in this world, one’s experience of their sex and gender may not always be as God originally designed. Therefore, based on Biblical beliefs, we believe any attempt to alter one’s birth gender dishonors God’s design (Gen. 1:27-28; 2:23-25; 19:5; 26:8-9; Rom. 1:20). 

  • We believe that marriage unites one biological man and one biological woman in a lifetime commitment to each other. Marriage provides for intimate companionship, pure sexual expression, procreation, and reflects the relationship between Christ and the church. Further, we believe that God has commanded that no sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage (Gen. 1:27-28; 2:23-25; 19:5; 26:8-9, Matt. 19:4-6. Eph. 5:31-33, Prov. 5:15-19, Deut. 22:5, Lev. 18:1-30, Rom. 1:26-29, 1 Cor. 5:1; 6:9; 7:1-5, 1 Thess. 4:1-8, Hebrews 13:4). 

  • We believe all human life is sacred and created by God in His image. Human life begins at conception and is of inestimable worth in all its dimensions, including pre-born, babies, the aged, the physically or mentally impaired, challenged or handicapped, and every other stage or condition from conception through natural death. We are therefore called to defend, protect, and value all human life (Ps. 139:13-16).


Potomac Classical Conservatory’s Authority

Our school operates as an extension of the Christian family, under the authority of the fathers and mothers who are required to raise their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord (Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6.) The authority granted to fathers and mothers in Scripture is delegated to Potomac Classical educators and staff in loco parentis. This means that, for the development of paideia (Greek for admonition) in students, while in the classrooms of Potomac Classical, the educators and administration share in the authority that believing parents have in the raising of children. We soberly embrace this responsibility with great reverence and honor, recognizing the high calling God bestows upon parents and we endeavor to humbly shoulder that calling as it pertains to academia and character formation during classroom hours.