About CCAR

The Canadian Centre for Adolescent Research is a ministry of the Briercrest Family of Schools Youth Department, and is dedicated to bringing all manner of electronic resources to the fingertips of youth pastors and workers all over Canada.

Doctrinal Statement of the Briercrest Family of Schools

Briercrest Bible College holds to the following set of beliefs and objectives:

We believe that the Old and New Testament Scriptures were written by chosen men of God under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and so constitute in their entirety the inerrant Word of God. We receive the Bible, therefore, as sole and final authority in regard to Christian life and doctrine.

We believe in one sovereign, eternal God existing in three co-eternal and co-equal persons, identified for us in Scripture as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These three share in the one essential Being and in all attributes and perfection of the Godhead.

We believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, perfect in His deity.

We believe that He took upon Himself a complete and perfect humanity in the incarnation; that He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, was crucified as a sacrifice for sins and a substitute for sinners; that He was raised personally and bodily from the dead, and that He ascended to heaven where He is now seated at the right hand of God in intercession for believers. We accept Jesus Christ as King of kings, Head of the church, and Lord of all.

We believe in the Holy Spirit who is living, personal, and divine, having no personal inferiority to the Father and the Son. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells and gives spiritual life to every true believer; that He fills those who are submitted to His will, and motivates, activates and empowers believers in their service of God and for holy living.

We believe that man was created directly by God, without sin and in the image and likeness of God, that man fell through disobedience and willful sin, and so came under the condemnation of God.

We believe that man is depraved in that every part of his personality has been affected by sin, he has a natural bias toward sin, he has an innate enmity toward God, and he cannot in any way free himself from sin and its condemnation, and therefore needs to be saved by action other than his own.

We believe that salvation has been provided by the grace of God through the substitutionary death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and that it must be personally appropriated by the sinner through conversion consisting of repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe in justification by faith and the new birth, and that the one who is justified and born again is absolved from all guilt through remission of sins, and so shall never come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.

We believe that every Christian should live a separated life by the adoption of scriptural principles of thought and conduct different from those of the world.

We believe that the Scriptures and the indwelling Spirit of God work progressively in the heart and life of the believer effecting purity and true holiness of deed, word, and thought, as the individual submits himself to the working of God.

We believe that the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ is a spiritual body made up of all who have through faith been justified and born again, who have been baptized by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ, and who are, therefore, indwelt by the Spirit.

We believe and teach the centrality and importance of the local church as the focus of Christian fellowship and witness, and the ordinances of believer's baptism and the Lord's Supper.

We believe that the Christian Church and every individual Christian has an obligation to bear witness to the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to make this Gospel known to the inhabitants of the whole world.

We believe in the personal, bodily, pre-millenial return of Jesus Christ.

We believe in the reality and personality of Satan who co-ordinates and motivates opposition to God, and the real existence of both angels and demons.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men; that of the saved at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that of the unsaved in the day of the Great Judgment.

We believe that all those who are redeemed will enjoy a life of everlasting blessedness in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We believe that all those who are unsaved are condemned to a conscious existence in everlasting death and torment.