What We Believe
The administration and faculty stand in solidarity with the historic Christian faith as founded in Scripture and embodied in the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed and popularly expressed by the following statements:
- We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
- We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- We believe that God brought the world and the universe with all its systems and forms of created life into existence, including angels and Lucifer who became Satan, leader of fallen angels.
- We believe in the full historicity of the Scriptural record of primeval history.
- We believe in the full deity and humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, 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 for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit through faith in Christ’s finished work is absolutely essential.
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
- We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
- We believe in the spiritual unity of believers, the universal body of Christ.
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Please pray for our faculty and administrators. They are all volunteers and serve the Lord Jesus Christ by volunteering their time and service without any compensation, insurance, or expenses.
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| Rev. Ludwig Otto, DMin, PhD, President & Founder: Ordained to the Gospel Ministry by First Baptist Church, Houston, Texas 1975. |
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Advisory Directors, Faculty, and Consultants
Saortua Marbun, Bali, Indonesia; Dr. Richard McElroy, Missouri, USA; Dr. Paul Baumgardner, Texas, USA; Lawal Olanrewaju Timothy , Benin, Africa; Dr. Timothy Okeke, North Carolina, USA; Dr. Zerai Hagos Gebrehiwot, Ethiopia, Africa; Gustavo Carmona, Florida, USA; Pastor Olutomi Gbenga, London, England; Dr. Christson Alaohuru, Nigeria, Africa; Dr. Paul B. Harry, Staten Island, New York, USA; Maxine Edna Knight Otto, Texas. USA; Carlos Perez, Columbia, South America; Dr. William Avaritt, Texas, USA; Kathy Hobaugh, Colorado, USA; Dr. William J. Sirman, Virginia, USA; Juan Meraz, Missouri, USA; Dr. James Ibe, South Carolina, USA; Dr. Mike Shaughnessy, New Mexico, USA; Dr.Elizabeth Mattke, Kansas, USA; Stephen Hawkins, Texas, USA; Steven I-Shuo Chen, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Dr. Patrick Kim Low, Brunei, Darussalam; Samuel Osei, Zhejiang Province-China;
| Katiana Dure Robert, Santiago, Dominican Republic; Mike Gonzales, New Jersey, USA; Dr. Claude Superville, Texas, USA; Dr. Linda Naimi, JD, Indiana, USA; Dr. Jack Harrison (Ret Col.), Florida, USA; Professor Ed Pasko, Indiana, USA; Dr. Paula Brown, Illinois, USA; Dr. William Gissy, Russia, Kazakhtan, and Afganistan; Woodrow Page, Virginia, USA; Dr. Bob Hollis, California, USA; Dr. Ngboawaji Daniel Nte, African & Middle East; Dr. Irikana, Godpower Jackson, Nigeria, Africa; John Jelinak, Grapevine, Texas, USA; Moses Musobya, Cape Town, South Africa Dr. Milton Lites, Arlington, Texas, USA & Asia; Dr. Darlington Mgbeke, California, USA; Dr. Andrew V. Novotorov, Missouri & Kansas, USA; Dr. Donovan A. McFarlane, Florida, USA; Professor Alfred Stephen Ekpenyong, Lagos, Nigeria; Professor Ben O’ Dili Okanume, River State, Nigeria;
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Jesus Touched the Untouchables
by Max Lucado
When Jesus came down from the hill, great crowds followed him. Then a man with a skin disease came to Jesus. The man bowed down before him and said, “Lord, you can heal me if you will.”
Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man and said, “I will. Be healed!” And immediately the man was healed from his disease.
Matthew 8:1-3
I wonder… about the man who felt Jesus’ compassionate touch. He makes one appearance, has one request, and receives one touch. But that one touch changed his life forever….
I wonder about this man because in New Testament times leprosy was the most dreaded disease. The condition rendered the body a mass of ulcers and decay. Fingers would curl and gnarl. Blotches of skin would discolor and stink. Certain types of leprosy would numb nerve endings, leading to a loss of fingers, toes, even a whole foot or hand. Leprosy was death by inches.
The social consequences were as severe as the physical. Considered contagious, the leper was quarantined, banished to a leper colony.
In Scripture the leper is symbolic of the ultimate outcast: infected by a condition he did not seek, rejected by those he knew, avoided by people he did not know, condemned to a future he could not bear…
The touch did not heal the disease, you know. Matthew is careful to mention that it was the pronouncement and not the touch of Christ that cured the condition. “Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man and said, ‘I will. Be healed!’ And immediately the man was healed from his disease” (Matt. 8:3).
The infection was banished by a word from Jesus.
The loneliness, however, was treated by a touch from Jesus.
Jesus touched the untouchables of the world.
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