A lot of people come to this website in search of a “statement of faith.”  They are wondering, what does this operation really believe deep down?  Books only go so deep in answering theological and doctrinal questions, and so they come here to the website to find a clear cut statement that will prove us at Ellerslie to be certifiably insane or surprisingly normal.  I hope we fall somewhere in-between. 

Modern ministries tend to say in their “statements of faith” everything they know everyone else will already agree with.  It’s sort of our modern way of finding places of connectedness, validating unity, and generally feeling more comfortable about sending our kid’s off to the Christian summer camp.  “Oh, well they believe that Jesus was God!  Great! Let’s turn our kids over to them for two months!”

For those of you that are just wanting the basic statement of faith and a list of a few guiding directives that we have here at Ellerslie, then this is your section.  For those interested in the “stuff” behind the final proclamations and knowing how we arrived at our conclusions, then you are going to be interested in Level 3, which has been specially crafted with you in mind.

The Ellerslie Statement of Faith

The 7 Principles of Ellerslie Thought and Practice

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