Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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With life thus simplified, with time standing vir- tually still, one has time to define himself, to al- low God’s maturing action to work. Unlike the larger university where in dividuality is perpetu- ated only in spite of the monolithic system, the small college affords opportunities to grow, through forming friendships, through participat- ing in activities, through learning about God and man, to set ourselves apart from one another and know who we are and why we are here. 14 Prologue

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% é ms rent mh a 4 bs est “Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches, but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that |am the Lord who practice steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things | delight, says the Lord.” — Jeremiah 9:23-24 Prologue 13

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“And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ . .. Weare to grow up In every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love.” — Ephesians 4:11-16 Prologue 15