Statement of faith
Faith Schooling is a Christian family publisher with an Apostolic foundation. Our doctrinal baseline is the Articles of Faith of the United Pentecostal Church International (2023). We state our convictions plainly so that every family knows what it is bringing into its home.
The Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God — God-breathed — and the only God-given authority for doctrine, faith, and practice. It is truth, and it is the lens through which every other kind of knowledge is weighed. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, and reason serves revelation rather than judging it.
2 Timothy 3:16–17 · 2 Peter 1:20–21 · John 17:17 · Proverbs 1:7
There is one God, who has revealed Himself as Father in creation, as Son in redemption, and as the Holy Spirit at work in the church. Jesus Christ is that one God manifested in the flesh: in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and there is no other name given under heaven by which we must be saved.
Deuteronomy 6:4 · John 1:1, 14 · Colossians 2:9 · 1 Timothy 3:16 · Acts 4:12
Acts 2:38 is the plan of salvation, the new birth of water and Spirit that Jesus described in John 3:5. It begins with faith in Jesus Christ — a faith that obeys — and moves through repentance (a changed mind that turns from sin to God), water baptism by immersion in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. Salvation is kept by continuing in faith and holiness to the end; we do not teach that it cannot be forfeited.
Acts 2:38 · John 3:5 · Mark 16:16 · Romans 6:4 · Acts 10:44–46 · Matthew 24:13
God calls His people to be holy as He is holy — set apart to Him inwardly, in a purified heart, and outwardly, in conduct and appearance that are distinct from the world. The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, so it is consecrated: modesty, restraint in adornment, and the distinction between men and women in appearance are part of that consecration.
1 Peter 1:15–16 · Hebrews 12:14 · Romans 12:1–2 · 1 Corinthians 6:19–20 · 1 Timothy 2:9–10 · 1 Corinthians 11
The church is a called-out, gathered people who continue steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayer. Every believer belongs to a local body, supplies something to it, and walks under the care of pastors who watch for souls. Belonging is a covenant, not a preference.
Acts 2:42, 46–47 · Hebrews 10:24–25 · Ephesians 4:11–16 · Hebrews 13:17
Jesus Christ is coming again. We look for the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, and we raise children to live ready.
Titus 2:13 · 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 · John 14:3
God gave children to parents, and parents the charge to teach them diligently — when they sit at home, walk by the way, lie down, and rise up. A Christian education is one in which the fear of the LORD is the starting point of every subject, not a verse added beside it.
Deuteronomy 6:6–7 · Proverbs 22:6 · Ephesians 6:4 · Psalm 78:4–7
Families search for this publisher under several different words, and one of them — Pentecostal — also describes churches that do not share our doctrine. Rather than let a parent find that out three weeks into a school year, here is what each word means and which one describes us.
ApostolicThis is us
Also searched as: Apostolic Christian, Jesus Name
Apostolic describes churches and families who hold that the doctrine and practice recorded in the book of Acts are the pattern for the church today: one God revealed in Jesus Christ, repentance, water baptism by immersion in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues. Faith Schooling holds this position and publishes it in full.
Oneness PentecostalThis is us
Also searched as: Oneness, Oneness doctrine
Oneness Pentecostal is the theological name for the Apostolic position on the Godhead: that there is one God who has revealed Himself as Father in creation, Son in redemption, and Holy Spirit at work in the church, and that Jesus Christ is that one God manifested in the flesh — rather than one of three distinct persons. Faith Schooling holds this position. Families who search "Apostolic" and families who search "Oneness Pentecostal" are looking for the same thing here.
Apostolic PentecostalThis is us
Also searched as: Apostolic Pentecostal church
Apostolic Pentecostal is the compound many families use to say both things at once: Pentecostal in experience — the baptism of the Holy Ghost as a present, evidenced experience — and Apostolic in doctrine, meaning one God in Jesus Christ and baptism in His name. It describes Faith Schooling exactly.
PentecostalWe are one stream inside this
Also searched as: Pentecostal Christian
Pentecostal names a wide family of churches that hold the baptism of the Holy Ghost to be a present experience rather than a first-century one. It is a category, not a single doctrine: within it, Trinitarian Pentecostal fellowships and Oneness Apostolic churches differ on the Godhead and on the baptismal formula, a division carried by the New Issue of 1913 and the separation of 1916. Faith Schooling is Apostolic — one stream within Pentecostalism — and does not speak for the others.
Trinitarian PentecostalNot our position
Trinitarian Pentecostal churches share the Pentecostal experience of Spirit baptism but hold the doctrine of the Trinity and baptize in the threefold name. That is not the position Faith Schooling teaches. The academic reading and math instruction contains no doctrinal teaching and is usable by any Christian family; the Apostolic Academy study guides do teach the Apostolic position, and a Trinitarian family should read them knowing that.
In the academic programs, faith appears as Scripture memory, Bible heroes and virtues, prayer, and — in the upper grades — reading that examines worldviews against the Word. Phonics is phonics and arithmetic is arithmetic; a page that teaches long vowels does not teach doctrine. Our academic programs quote the New King James Version. The Hidden Word, our Scripture memory program, uses the King James Version because Bible quizzing does.
Doctrine is taught directly, and only, in the Apostolic Academy study guides and articles, where every position above is opened from Scripture with its reasoning shown. Where our reading of a passage is an interpretation rather than a bare statement of the text, the guides say so; we do not need to overstate our case to hold it.
If your family holds a different position, you will still find the reading and math instruction sound, and our curriculum comparison worksheet lists the doctrinal questions we think every family should ask of any publisher — including us.