We must help our youth guard their hearts!
Secular options are aggressively competing for our
Christian students’ time and attention both in the
traditional classroom as well as online. We must do
everything in our power to protect our students from
these advances and ensure that kids in CHRISTIAN
schools get a CHRISTIAN education.
An increasing number of Christian school leaders are
allowing students to take online courses from secular
options that are off mission and off message because
they are less expensive or even free.
Doesn’t this undermine and devalue what school leaders
work so hard to accomplish in providing a quality Chris-
tian education to their students? What would happen
to your school’s enrollments if you regularly allowed
students to take traditional courses at the brick and
mortar public schools? Do you think the public schools
might be able to recruit some of your students away
from your school? If Christian students are allowed or
encouraged to pursue online secular options outside of
your online program, where does it end?
We are called to be Christian first, Christian in every
place, and Christian all the time. Sevenstar’s online
curriculum is biblically integrated and should be viewed
as an extension of your school’s operations. Shouldn’t
we be encouraging students to take only those online
courses that continue to form them as Christians, meet
the high academic standards that you have set for your
school, are worthy of a credit from your school, that
expand God’s Kingdom, and glorify Him?
The alternative is to take the path of least resistance and
allow them to take the secular options available that may
be less expensive or free but are not mission-aligned
and do not help students grow in their faith.
If the primary mission of a Christian school is to
provide an authentically Christian education, then we
have a great responsibility to carry out this mission and
make it a priority by providing options that are in line
with this mission.
We must provide moral clarity to our students, at every
opportunity, and be the guardians of moral order and
academic achievement for the greater glory of God. By
reaching for God, the all-knowing, we can resist the
encroachments of our increasingly secular world.
As it says in 1 Timothy 6:12, we must continue to “fight
the good fight of faith” in our Christian schools to over-
come the imminent danger to our faith and morals. We
must continue to fortify a solid reputation for academic
standards and Christian values in our schools.
Sevenstar is aligned with your Christian school’s mission
by delivering an online curriculum with biblical integra-
tion and a Christian worldview that provides wisdom
to students and reinforces their beliefs regarding their
Christian faith.
Sevenstar is honored to work with Christian school
leaders around the world in making disciples of Christ
through a global learning community that glorifies
God. Let’s work together to provide outstanding online
Christian education that instructs the mind and heart of
each student at your school this year.
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