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8 VISION We commit ourselves and our resources to being a seminary that • executes a spiritually transformative, intellectually challenging, and professionally focused learning experience that engages the realities of a world in need of redemption at every level; • involves our entire community in the ethnic, cultural, and denominational diversity of the global church; • pursues measured and sustainable institutional growth through creative programming and delivery systems; • provides adequate financial resources for strategic growth while ensuring long-term financial health for the seminary; and • partners with alumni, churches, mission agencies, theological education programs, and other organizations for kingdom purposes worldwide. DOCTRINAL STATEMENT Denver Seminary is committed to the great truths and abiding fundamentals of the Christian faith as evidenced by its confessional platform. The Word of God We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God, inerrant in the original writings, complete as the revelation of God's will for salvation, and the supreme and final authority in all matters to which they speak. The Trinity We believe in one God, Creator and Sustainer of all things, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; that they are equal in every divine perfection, and that they execute distinct and harmonious offices in the work of creation, providence, and redemption. God the Father We believe in God the Father, an infinite, personal Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power, and love. He concerns himself mercifully in the affairs of men and women, hears and answers prayer, and saves from sin and death all who come to him through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ We believe that Jesus Christ is God's eternal Son and has precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections as God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. He is not only true God, but true Man, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. We believe in his sinless life, his substitutionary atonement, his bodily resurrection from the dead, his ascension into heaven, his priestly intercession on behalf of his people, and his personal, visible return from heaven. Holy Spirit We believe in the Holy Spirit, his personality and his work in regeneration, sanctification, and preservation. His ministry is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and implement Christ's work of redeeming the lost and empowering the believer for godly living and service.