Our Values

Integration of Christ-centered faith and Life

ISAAC’s core conviction is that Christ-centered faith and calling must be integrated with Asian American cultures and identities. This is a crucial element in the life-long journey of following Jesus towards Christian maturity and wholeness. It is an important way to embody God’s fullness in the world.

Our Statement of Faith (April 22, 2008)

Adapted

The Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity advances Asian American Christian presence and perspectives in order to broaden the multicultural and global commitments of the Church and the Academy. Our core conviction is that the integration of Christ-centered faith and calling with Asian American cultures and identities is a crucial element in the life-long journey of following Jesus towards Christian maturity and wholeness and of embodying God’s fullness in the world. Furthermore, as an evangelical organization that seeks to serve the ecumenical Church, we recognize that ours is one of many theological perspectives. Thus, while we commend the following statement of faith to the wider Christian community, it is ultimately binding only to the directors and staff of ISAAC:

1. The full and final authority of Scripture
2. The Trinity
3. The full deity and full humanity of Jesus Christ
4. Both the created good and the need for redemption of all individuals and cultures
5. Salvation by grace through faith in Christ
6. Jesus' bodily resurrection and future return to rule over all