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Our Philosophy
To fulfill its mission of partnering with parents to prepare their children spiritually, mentally, physically and socially to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ,
North Georgia Christian School is to provide competent instruction. Its policies and practices are to be reflected without apology in the Christian faith based on the following philosophy. All truth is a manifestation of God’s sovereignty in creation. This school proclaims God in its educational program and conveys to its students that God is interested in every aspect of their lives and there is no division between spiritual and secular knowledge and experience. All of life is religious. Therefore, whatever a student learns has God as its point of reference. The school presents to the student a viewpoint of life and the world from God’s perspective. This is called a Biblical, or Christian, world and life view.
The student is taught that God and his truth are the basis for the educational program and is challenged to respond to God with the appropriate use of acquired skills and knowledge. Responding to God is a process, one in which the student, as prompted by the Holy Spirit, becomes increasingly more active than passive. Developed in the student is the awareness that accumulated knowledge and skill proficiency have direct bearing on the three fundamental relationships of life: 1) to God; 2) to others (as well as one’s self); 3) to one’s environment (creation). It is growth in this response process which leads to the fulfillment of a person’s calling from God to understand, shape, use, preserve, and enjoy God’s creation in a life of service to God through service of one’s fellowman.
Men and women have chosen to glorify themselves and worship their own works rather than worship and glorify God. Humans have sinful natures which hinder them from accepting God as the reference point in all life. These conditions keep students from responding to God in ways for which they were designed. However, when God’s salvation through Jesus Christ is applied by the Holy Spirit to a student’s life, the ability to accept God’s perspective and desire to respond correctly are restored. Christian education can never be complete apart from the redemptive work of Christ accomplished in a student’s life.
Education given the students will be well-rounded: introducing them to the redeeming work of Christ, helping them to appreciate themselves and their fellowman, inspiring them to academic excellence, and enabling them to take their proper position in creation as one who bears the image of God and exercises dominion over God’s world. |
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