Vision

Vision

(To be prepared and updated annually by the Camp Board)

Purpose of the Vision Statement: To define where the camp is going and what we wish to accomplish.

To develop attractive, Christ-centered programs based on the following philosophy statement:
- Strasbourg Bible Camp is a Christian Christ-centered camp. We base everything on the fact that God revealed Himself in Jesus Christ, and that we as individuals, come to know Him and become members of His family through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
- God chose to use an individual, in the person of Jesus Christ, to communicate His interest in humans. He still uses individuals, both to communicate and accept Him. Our purpose is to mature as Christians and to influence others for Christ so that they have opportunity to enter into a personal relationship with Christ.
- We are completed beings made in the likeness of God. It was sin that took away the wholeness of man and the wholeness of nature. So the love of Jesus Christ is expressed in making man complete. Our essential task is not only spiritual (although that is the key dimension) but to see the whole person develop spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally and socially.
To maintain our existing programs and develop new programs to meet the needs of both our membership and adherents.
To maintain existing facilities and infrastructure, and to develop new facilities to meet new program needs.
To consistently improve communication and fellowship between the camp board, camp executive, constituency and adherents.
To increase interest, participation and membership in the ministry of Strasbourg Bible Camp.
To confess our faults one to another.
To pray for one another, as the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous person availeth much. James 5:16
To God be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Doctrine

A. Objectives and Philosophy

To glorify the name of the Lord.
To confront campers and staff with the claims of Jesus Christ on their lives (salvation, discipleship & stewardship)
To teach the scriptures as the inspired word of God.
To provide Christian fellowship.
To provide a Christian atmosphere that fosters wholesome attitudes.
To relate Christianity to daily living.
To offer experience in leadership and witnessing

B. What We Believe

We believe the Holy Bible is God's inerrant, infallible, and complete revelation to man, revealing both the absolute perfection of the Godhead (Father, Son & Holy Spirit) as well as the absolute sinful, hopeless & lost condition of all men.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, fully God and fully man, who came to this earth to save sinners by being virgin born, sinless Himself, crucified, buried, resurrected, ascended into Heaven, and coming again.
We believe that God would have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth through repentance and the new birth, which is by God's grace through faith in the blood and the finished work of Christ.
We further believe that those who are saved must deny ungodliness and worldly lusts by living soberly, righteously and Godly in this present word, looking for that blessed hope the glorious appearing of the great God and our saviour, Jesus Christ.

C. Statement of Faith

The Bible is inspired of God, inerrant in the original documents and of final authority in all matters of faith and practice. (II Tim. 3:16-17, II Peter 1:20-21)
There is one God, eternally existent in three Persons; Father, Son & Holy Spirit. (II Cor. 13:14, Heb.9:14)
The Lord Jesus Christ if fully God, sinlessly perfect, and born of a virgin. His sacrifice is substitutionary and representative. He rose bodily from the dead and ascended to His Father's right hand, where He now ministers as our great High Priest. He will come to rapture His church and subsequently return to reign over the earth. (John 1:1,29; Matt. 1:23-25; Phil.2:6; I John 3:5; I Thess.4:13-18)
Each member of the human race is fallen, sinful, and lost and regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for the salvation of man. Redemption is wholly by the blood of Christ, and salvation is by grace, through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. (Gen.3, Rom. 3:23, Eph.2:8-9, Acts 4:12)
There will be a resurrection of the saved and of the lost; of the saved unto eternal life, and of the lost unto eternal damnation and conscious judgement. (I Thess.4:17, Rev. 20:11-15)
That all who by faith receive the Lord Jesus Christ as saviour are born again of the Holy Spirit, indwelt by the Holy Spirit and by the Holy Spirit baptized into the capitalized body of Christ, the Church, of which He is the risen and ascended head. (I Cor.12:12-14, Eph.1:22-23, Col.1:18)
The Church began with the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and is composed of all true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. These believers are united to Him and to one another by the indwelling Spirit. The Church's calling, hope, and destiny are heavenly, for its chief functions are to glorify God and to witness for Christ until His return. (Acts 2:1-12,42; Acts 11:15-18; Heb.3:1)
Christ, our risen head, is the giver of gifts, such as evangelists, pastors, and teachers, and these individuals are responsible to Him for their service. They are given "for the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ." (Eph.4:12-16)
There are two Christian ordinances; Baptism and the Lord's supper. Baptism by immersion signifies that the believer, having died with Christ is buried with him in Baptism and also is risen with Christ to walk in newness of life. The Lord's supper is a memorial feast, instituted by the Lord Himself exclusively for His own. (Matt.28:18-20, Rom.6:3-10, I Cor.11:23-24)
Every true child of God possesses eternal life and being justified, sanctified, and sealed with the Holy Spirit, is safe and secure for all eternity. (Eph.1:13-14, Eph.4:30, Rom.8:38-39, John 10:28-29)
The personal imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ to translate His Church will be followed by the tribulation and the inauguration of Christ's reign over the earth; He will then deliver up the Kingdom to God, the Father, that the triune God may be all in all. (I Cor.15:51-58, I Cor.15:22-26)