The Christian School Movement Why a Failure? (8)

The fifth of the "Specific Principles" adopted by the Union of Christian Schools outlines the purpose of Christian Education as follows: "The all-embracing objective of the school is to promote the glory of our covenant God: (a) by seek­ing in humble dependence upon God to equip the pupil for his supreme task, namely, to realize himself as God's image bearer (2 Tim. 3:17); and (b) by seeking in that same dependence upon God to reconstitute the sin-perverted world by realizing God's Kingdom in...