MPCS Code of Conduct and Lifestyle Agreement
As a Christian community committed to “preparing servant-leaders to honor God, love others, and walk in Truth,” Mount Paran Christian School is dedicated to the highest standards of academic achievement, spiritual growth, and personal development.
The Mount Paran Christian School Student Code of Lifestyle and Conduct Agreement is founded on Matthew 22:37: “Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” While pursuing holiness and spiritual growth is necessary to the Christian life, we have come to realize that students must first and foremost understand the centrality of the Gospel if they are to be rightly motivated to pursue godliness. The Gospel message is simply this: "God saves sinners," and now we have the joy and challenge to love the Lord our God with our whole selves. The administration and faculty of Mount Paran Christian School will commit to cultivating an atmosphere that reflects the centrality of the Gospel; upholds biblical expectations; and promotes authentic repentance, genuine forgiveness, and relationships established in grace (1 Corinthians 16:14, Leviticus 19:2, 1 Peter 1:15-16, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 7:14-25, Ephesians 4:1, Colossians 1:9-10).
Members of the MPCS community seek to honor God by pursuing biblical lifestyles for individual and communal benefit. Faith in God results in behavior that displays His authority in our lives, and Scripture teaches that love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are qualities of lives and relationships of the Christian community (Galatians 5:22-23).
Therefore, MPCS students are encouraged to pursue the following lifestyle characteristics:
• Using abilities and resources to seek the welfare of all people as individuals of worth. MPCS does not allow discrimination or harassment of people because of race, color, national or ethnic origins, age, gender/sexuality, or disability.
• Morning devotions, prayer, and the variety of chapel services influenced by different denominations should be respected because communal worship creates opportunities to connect to God, expressing our shared faith in Jesus Christ. Likewise, all students are expected to engage in regular corporate worship in their local church.
• Avoiding the attitudes and behaviors of greed, jealousy, pride, lust, needless anger, an unforgiving spirit, harmful discrimination, prejudice, theft, lying, cheating, plagiarism, gossip, slander, profanity, vulgarity, transgenderism, sexual sin, pornography, drunkenness, gluttony, immodesty, and occult practices (Galatians 5:19-21, I Corinthians 6:9-10).
• Scripture teaches that all our actions should be done to the glory of God. We should, therefore, be careful in the choices of clothes, media, and recreation, promoting those which strengthen the body of Christ and avoiding those which would diminish our character and testimony as it relates to Christ. As participants in school-sponsored clubs, sports, and activities, students are expected to always behave in such a way that brings honor to God.
• Preserving the body’s well-being as a temple of the Holy Spirit by abstaining from the use of alcohol, illegal drugs, vape devices, tobacco in any form, and the abuse of prescriptions and over- the-counter drugs while enrolled in MPCS.
These lifestyle characteristics are tangible expressions, by God’s grace, of the path to Christian wholeness. Therefore, students are encouraged to not see the Code of Lifestyle as a burden, but to alleviate the brokenness of the human condition by pursuing God’s perfect design for identity, relationships, and creation (Romans 7:7-12). And, finally, while adherence to the Code of Lifestyle is expected, the faculty and administration of MPCS do not expect perfection. As the kindness of God leads His people to repentance, the administration commits to grace-filled conversations in which students are free to transparently repent and not carry the burden of sin behind a mask (Romans 2:4).
I have read and agree to the MPCS student code of lifestyle and conduct.