Christian schools provide children with a Christian education. What does that mean? While there are many other things we could include, it is possible to reduce the essence of Christian education to three essential aims.
- The ultimate goal of Christian education is that children will know the Truth. This should be the goal of every school, but many are ignorant of or in rebellion against the Truth. Christian schools recognize and proclaim that the fullest revelation of Truth is found in Jesus Christ and we seek to help our children accept this Truth in faith.
- We train our students to view everything in relation to the Truth. This is not to say that Christian school students only read Christian books; they don’t. We don’t shelter our students from bad or false things, rather we help them to understand these things in light of who God is and who He has made them to be.
- We seek to foster an environment where kids are encouraged to walk and grow in Godliness. Christian schools do this by hiring teachers that are examples of wisdom and virtue worthy to be imitated. What is more we hold kids accountable when they begin to stray from the narrow path.
To put it succinctly, being a Christian school means we want our kids to know God, to see the world from His perspective, and to live their lives in obedience to Him. Everything we do, from who we hire to the various curricula we use, is done in an attempt to further this goal.
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