Job Application

Our Purpose:
ELIC exists that God's glory may be known to every nation and that the magnificence of Jesus Christ be supreme among all people.

Our Vision:
Our vision is to raise up disciple-makers among the educated of Asia and the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region to establish vibrant disciple-making communities that will impact campuses, cities, regions, and nations for Christ and His glory.

Our Mission:
Our mission is to be a community of people who...

• Grow in our love for Jesus Christ and make the spreading of God's glory among the nations our priority.
• Provide excellent academic instruction and teacher training that stimulate inquiry and impart knowledge, skills, and values, thus preparing those we teach for productive lives of service.
• Proclaim the Gospel in word and deed at every God-given opportunity in ways that are culturally appropriate and make strategic use of the heart language.
• Disciple believers to maturity, instilling in them a passion for God's glory and equipping them to make disciples in their own culture and to take the Gospel across cultural boundaries.
• Assist national believers in establishing and leading local disciple-making communities where needed and where God is obviously at work.
• Partner strategically with national and foreign believers to make God's glory known.

Our Statement of Faith
Our Statement of Faith, to which all staff must be committed, is as follows:

1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible Word of God, speaking with complete authority, clarity and sufficiency.
2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
4. We believe that all humanity is lost and alienated from God, and that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, faith in Jesus Christ alone through the regeneration of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those who are saved unto the resurrection of everlasting life, and those who are lost unto everlasting damnation.
7. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, the church, which is His body.

Our Community Confessions:
Because we affirm the preceding Statement of Faith to be true, all members of the ELIC community commit themselves to the following convictions and conduct shaped by them. Our spirit in this commitment is that we are a community of forgiven sinners who have received grace and in like manner willingly extend that grace to others. In all things we strive to live out the fruit of the spirit: joy, peace, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, forgiveness, and most of all, love.

Based on our Statement of Faith and our high view of scripture, our convictions and thus our conduct are made clear in the following confessions:

1. We confess that we believe in the authority, clarity, and complete sufficiency of the Bible. God's word is sufficient for all matters related to faith and conduct.
2. We confess that we believe in the triune God-head/the Trinity: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. We are Trinitarian.
3. We confess that we believe in the uniqueness and exclusiveness of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. There is no other name, nor any other way, that offers salvation, forgiveness of sin, and eternal life.
4. We confess that we believe in the lostness and depravity of humanity apart from God's grace and the power of the Gospel. Apart from this grace, humanity is destined to an eternity separated from God.
5. We confess that we believe in the Good News of the Gospel and that its message is guaranteed by the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. Because of this Gospel of grace, humanity through faith can enjoy heaven and the presence of God eternally.
6. We confess that we believe sexual intimacy is designed by God to be expressed solely within a marriage between one man and one woman. This view of sexuality and marriage is rooted in the Genesis account of creation, reflected in the teachings of Jesus Christ himself, and is maintained consistently throughout scripture. Whatever one's personal tendencies and desires, the call of Christ on our lives is the same: sexual purity manifest among the married as complete faithfulness and by those who are unmarried by living a chaste life (1 Thess. 4: 3-8).
7. We confess that we believe that every person (as distinct from the rest of creation) bears the image of God and that though God is eternal, He in time, space, and history created man and woman. As God's creation in His image, man and woman lived in perfection in the Garden of Eden but rebelled, sinned against God, and thereby experienced separation from God. Man and woman continue to exist as the image bearers of God but are marred by sin. It is this sinful nature that confuses and distorts all that we were originally created and intended by God to be.