Christian Studies

Our Christian Studies program is designed to develop:

a) Biblical literacy
b) A knowledge of church history
c) A strong faith and Christian consciousness

To achieve these goals, students study Scripture in grades K-6 and church history in grades 7-8. Christian Studies is an academic course equal in content and examinations to all other areas of the curriculum.

Bible Literacy
Students in K-6 learn Bible stories, Bible geography, salvation history timelines, and memorize more than one hundred passages of Scripture using the Memoria Press Christian Studies series. The King James Bible is used for Scripture memorization. The KJV has exercised a profound influence on the development of written and spoken English and is one of the greatest literary masterpieces in the English language. The KJV not only enables students to learn the sublime content of their Christian faith in a beautiful and poetic language, but it also strengthens language skills in preparation for the study of English literature. Immersion in the KJV is a necessary step in the important goal of learning to read English literature over five centuries.

Church History
Students study church history from a non-sectarian viewpoint and are encouraged to talk to their parents or pastor if they have questions about different faith traditions.

Building Faith and a Christian Consciousness
Formal education develops the ability of students to use reason and critical thinking, tools which can then be turned against the faith to attack and undermine it. Modern education, by its nature, tends to produce a strongly scientific and skeptical frame of mind. The Christian school has a unique responsibility to teach its young that while the intellectual tools acquired through education can be used to attack the faith, they can also be used to defend it; that while the Christian faith may be above reason, it is not contrary to reason; that belief is a choice that is intellectually respectable; and that many of the greatest minds, both scientific and literary, in every age including our own, have been believing orthodox Christians.

We believe the Christian faith is true and that both reason and history support this belief. All time is dated from the birth of Jesus Christ, the central figure in human history.

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