Columbia Bible College - Finial Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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BIBLE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION The faculty which God has raised up to pilot His work at Columbia Bible College are a contest source of inspiration and refreshment to each student. Whether in administration, counseling, or daily class- room encounters, we find in them the char- acteristic attitude set forth in II Corinth- ians 1 : 24a ( Amplified Version ) : Not that we have dominion [over you] and lord it over your faith, but ( rather that we work with you as ) fellow laborers [to promote] your joy . . . As we have come to appreciate these God-given men and women, we cannot help seeing God ' s marvelous working in bringing them together as an important part of the CBC family. REV. J. OTIS BRASWELL Dean of Men MISS SARA M. PETTY Dean of Women REV. JAMES M. HATCH Dean of Faculty It is the desire of Columbia Bible College that in its training program the Lord would do again for His twentieth century disciples what he did for two of His first century disci- ples on the road to Emmaus. Our goal is the same as theirs: To Know Him and To Make Him Known. And our method of training must be the same. As they communed and ques- tioned with each other— man ' s only educational method— Jesus Himself drew near . . . and He interpreted to them in all the ' Scripture the things concerning Himself. In their case Jesus Himself is the Teacher— He opened their minds. He is also the subject, for He showed them the things concerning Himself. And His Word is the core and foundation of the curriculum, for beginning from Moses and from all the prophets He opened to them the Scriptures. As He thus teaches again, there will be some in the twentieth century who will follow in the train of those early disciples who saw the Light of the World and became a light to the world. Mr. James Hatch Dean of Faculty

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PRESIDENT Dear Students: A light to the world! The theme of this year ' s Finial certainly goes to the heart of things. May the coming years find each of us at the heart of things, being a light to the world. Much that the world is calling light today is really darkness. But in the goodnesss of God. amidst all this darkness, the true light already shineth. The true light is not an ideology, or scientific knowledge, or even mere doctrine, but a Person, Jesus Christ. Let everything that you are and everything that you do reveal Christ. This is the reason for our existence: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world ( Phil. 2:15). Ever vours, in Christ, tfjuu — G. Allen Fleece President %

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REV. EARL P. McQUAY Assistant to the President