A genuine Christian education provides a quality liberal arts education that glorifies Jesus Christ and prepares students for lives of faithful and obedient service to Him. The Bible is the integrative force, and all administrators, faculty and staff personally know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
Specifically, Christian education is an acknowledgment, an attitude, and an ambition:
1. Christian education is an acknowledgment about God’s world. He created it; He holds it together; He rules it, and we have an obligation to learn all that we can about it. We aren’t simply learning about math, science and history; we are learning about God’s world. Christian education seeks to produce competent graduates who know the world as well as the One who created it.
2. Christian education is an attitude related to God’s Word; therefore, studying God’s world from the perspective of the Word is critical. We can understand life only as we view it through the “spectacles of Scripture.” “For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light” (Psalm 36:9). Seeking to bring all thought and activity under the lordship of Christ, we want our students to be passionate about their God, their lives and their call to service.
3. Christian education is an ambition to do God’s will. Because it is a lifelong process of transforming our minds, Christian education spans “the cradle to the grave.” We want our students to be “maladjusted” to this world, to see the sin in themselves and in the world, and to commit their lives to the pursuit of justice, compassion, and integrity.
As students study God’s world from the perspective of the Word, it will enable them to do God’s service. “We want to serve our culture,” writes Harry Blamires in The Secularist Heresy, “we want our culture to work-not because it is the only good we can conceive, and not because we are finally and securely at home in it-but because it is a great drama that we have been staged in, and it is good that we should play our parts well.”