Florida Baptist College is a pastor led, Independent Baptist college under the sole authority of West Gate Baptist Church, a pastor-led, local, Independent Baptist church. Florida Baptist College is founded upon and exists to perpetuate the following Baptist fundamentals:

• Preaching and teaching exclusively from the King James Bible
• Scripturally sound, expository Bible preaching
• The autonomy and primacy of the local church as God’s vehicle for performing His work
• New Testament soul winning, church planting, and missions
• Personal holiness and separation from the world
• Preservation of historical Baptist doctrine
• God-honoring music that is conservative and uplifting
• Christian education as a Biblical mandate for all ages of people
• Ecclesiastical separation from apostasy, evangelicalism, neo-evangelicalism, and ecumenicalism