Statement of faith
Our shared convictions
Day Lily Education is a Christ-centered community. While our students and mentors come from many church backgrounds, we hold together a common core — the good news of Jesus Christ as revealed in Scripture and confessed in the historic creeds of the Church. These convictions shape not only what we teach, but how we treat one another.
1. The Holy Scriptures
We believe the Bible — the Old and New Testaments — is the inspired, trustworthy Word of God, our final authority for faith and life.
2. The Triune God
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — the Creator and Sustainer of all things.
3. Jesus Christ
We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man, who lived a sinless life, died for our sins, rose bodily from the dead, and will return in glory.
4. The Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit gives new birth to those who trust in Christ and dwells within believers — comforting, guiding, and forming us into the likeness of Jesus.
5. Humanity & the Fall
We believe every person is created in the image of God with inherent dignity and worth, yet all have sinned and stand in need of God’s grace.
6. Salvation by Grace
We believe salvation is a gift of God’s grace, received through faith in Jesus Christ alone — not by our own works.
7. The Church
We believe in the one holy Church — the community of all who belong to Christ. We gladly serve the local church and see our learning community as a support to, never a substitute for, the life of God’s people gathered.
8. The Life to Come
We look forward in hope to the return of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, and life everlasting.
“For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.” — Romans 11:36
Faith, reason & science
As a Christian community that loves learning — and that gladly supports Christian research — we’re sometimes asked how we hold together faith and science. Our answer is simple: we don’t believe they’re at war. The same God who speaks in Scripture is the Author of the natural world. All truth is God’s truth, wherever it is found.
So we pursue science with honesty and rigor, follow the evidence carefully, and remain humble about what we do and don’t yet understand. We celebrate curiosity, welcome hard questions, and trust that a faith worth having can withstand honest inquiry. Studying the created order — from the cell to the cosmos — only deepens our worship of the One who made it.
A word on posture
On the central truths of the gospel we stand firmly together. On secondary matters — including many questions at the edges of faith and science — we practice humility, charity, and freedom, giving one another room to think, question, and grow. Our aim is not uniformity of opinion but unity in Christ and a shared pursuit of truth in love.