Summit Pacific College - Call Yearbook (Abbotsford, British Columbia Canada)

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Education Thai Is Worthwhile When a Bible College chooses as the theme for its yearbook, IN THE SERVICE OF THE MASTER, it acknowledges, in a phrase, both the scope and the goal of its educative process. Paul expressed this philosophy of Christian education in language at once simple and profound in his address to the Colossians: . . that in all things He might have the pre-eminence. ln keeping with its Weltanschauung or scheme of things, WESTERN has reasons for doing as it doesg on the basis of its con- cept of values it furnishes an apologia for its preferences. It has been suggested that philosophy had its origin in curiosity when men wanted to know the meaning of this world, and tried to discover the purpose of life. The non- Christian speculates as to the answer to these questionsg the Christian professes to know. At the heart of each educative system is a philosophy of education, beginning, as is generally recognized, with postulates of some kind. The philosophy of education at WESTERN begins with the postulate of special revelation. God not only exists, but He has made Himself known to us. Thus each study is approached from the ground of Gocl's Given. The revelation by God of Himself to man comes through the Bible, the Word of God, wherein the eye of faith beholds, as in a mirror, the incarnate Image of God, our Lord Jesus Christ. From its concept of beginnings to its prospect of the consummation of all things in the One Who made them and for Whom they exist, the Christian World-view is in sharp contradistinction to non-Christian speculation. Nowhere is this seen more lucidly than in the view spawned by phil- osophies of atheism and agnosticism, that we are all partners in a common doom. 16 Christian theology soars above the welter of speculation to declare that man is both a creature of nature and a creature of the Spirit. God created man in His Own moral and rational image, and He ever remains a creature of God, responsible to God. It is this fact, and the deeply-rooted Bible-based conviction that human personality is essen- tially modifiable, which gives WESTERN its raison d'6tre. Under God, instructors at WESTERN have been privileged to see lives trans- formed and challenged to deep personal commitment to Jesus Christg a holy thrill has been theirs as they have followed the progress of the graduates of the College who, obeying the Divine imperative and equipped through Divine enabling, have carried the message of deliverance of the captives to the far-flung corners of the world. Spurred by the past more than twenty- five years, and challenged by a future bright with eschatological hope, this College is determined to intensify its efforts both to preserve and to propogate the Body of Divinity which it has inherited. The moral and spiritual transformation of the individual drawn to Christ by the Holy Ghost is glor- iously possible. Christian educators can in no wise write finis to their work so long as there remains, in the darkness of unbelief and ignorance of spiritual matters, one soul for whom Christ died, Christian education is incomplete so long as there are professing Christians who have not found or who are not doing God's will for their lives. WEST- ERN cannot and shall not retreat until men everywhere have found self-fulfilment through the indwelling Holy Spirit, and have become committed Christians IN THE SER- VICE OF THE MASTER. RONALD E. WRIGHT Dean of Education

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