Why The Apprentice Academy Exists
There are no bounds to the Sovereignty, holiness, and love of God. Therefore, the centrality of God in all things is the defining reality for us at The Village Church Apprentice Academy and shapes the ethos of our life together. This vision of God and ministry and life is rooted in Scripture, and the preservation of the vision depends on our allegiance to God’s inerrant, infallible Word—the Bible, and its preeminence in all our thinking. Therefore, we believe that all theological and Apprentice education should be radically Christ-centered and Bible-saturated. It should be truth-driven rather than audience-driven. It should approach every intellectual and practical issue with the primary questions: What does this have to do with God? What does the Bible have to say about this? How can Christ be magnified in this? And how does the gospel bear on this?
Over the past 2 years (since the inception of The Apprentice Academy) we have come to cherish the practical outworking of this Christ-centered biblical approach to learning in the context of a community of believers. Our hearts’ desire is to saturate emerging leaders-pastors—no matter their age, race, social standing, or educational background—into this thoughtful community we call The Apprentice Academy as the context for equipping the next generation of leaders for whatever vocation God calls them to. Our aim is to give Apprentices an intense immersion in a Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated local church that combines rigorous study with personal life-based application, all to the end that you might live for the praise of God’s glory in affection, thought, word, and deed.
