Christian Higher Education

[Jorge Daniel Garcia]

What are your thoughts on Christian higher education? What are the pros and cons?
What about higher education in missions?

Benefits of Christian Higher Education

[Darin Hamm]

Not really a fan but I'm against pulling away from the world in all areas.

[James Nored]

Darin, this is interesting that you are not a big fan of Christian higher education, since you went to a Christian college. What are the issues for you here?

[Darin Hamm]

A great quote from A Disciples letter to Diognetus from the early church says, "For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any singularity.The course of conduct which they follow has not been devised by any speculation or deliberation of inquisitive men; nor do they, like some, proclaim themselves the advocates of any merely human doctrines. But, inhabiting Greek as well as barbarian cities, according as the lot of each of them has determined, and following the customs of the natives in respect to clothing, food, and the rest of their ordinary conduct, they display to us their wonderful and confessedly striking literally, “paradoxical.” method of life. They dwell in their own countries, but simply as sojourners."

They didn't set themselves apart by creating Christian of all the things offered by the world, they lived and did everything along with the world but showed their difference by how they lived life.

I would like my children to go to state schools. I see no reason to go to one with the label Christian.

James Nored said:

Darin, this is interesting that you are not a big fan of Christian higher education, since you went to a Christian college. What are the issues for you here?