christian education
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Christian education trains students to worship God. Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. God wants His children to glorify Him in every area of life. We want our students to recognize that as students they are called to glorify God in their studies and, in the not so distant future, their careers.
Christian education guides students to know themselves. The Bible teaches that man is made in God’s image (Genesis 1:26-28), giving him dignity and worth. Sin, however, has tainted every aspect of man. But Christ offers redemption and makes His people into new creations (2 Corinthians 5:17). As new creations, Christ’s servants are to know their own unique gifts and use them for His kingdom.
Christian education teaches students to love others. Students can do this by valuing friendships, developing healthy relationships, and making a contribution to society. Since Christians have been redeemed from sin and death, we are to go forth into the world as agents of redemption ourselves. Even though a school exists, primarily, to challenge intellectually and to equip students to live in this world that does not mean it should exclude theory from practice. Quite the opposite is the case. Christian education imparts “serviceable insight,” which is why we integrate a community service program into our curriculum. A Christian education is only Christian insofar as it equips the redeemed to live as agents of Christian transformation in society.
Christian education instructs students to exercise dominion over the creation (Genesis 1:28-30). Adam named each animal in the garden, and humans have been naming things ever since. “Naming” is an essential aspect of our nature in which we seek to comprehend this world. Christian education exists to help others “name” the world. That is, Christian education equips students to exercise their God-given abilities of acquiring and exercising insight about God's creation, transforming it, and then presenting their work back to Him as a labor of love and service.