Role of Christian Schools

The Christian school is an institution that finds its roots in our understanding of the responsibilities of the community of believers and in our understanding of the generational nature of God’s covenantal promises. It is the responsibility of believers to assist in the training of the children of fellow believers. This is the root of Christian education. An ongoing concern for training the children of Christian parents motivates the faculty, even when the child himself does not display Christian behavior or a mature Christian faith.

The role of our K-12 Christian school system is to support the Body of Christ. The children of Christian parents are “holy to the Lord” (I Cor. 7:14-15). The promises to those who believe the gospel and are members of a covenant community of believers apply to their children as well (Acts 2:38-39). This has always been the understanding of God’s people (Deut.6). The local church congregation shares the responsibility to see that the covenant children receive a God-centered education (Psalm 78). The God-centered school is one way local congregations work with believing parents in the awesome task of teaching the biblical world and life-view to their children.

We seek to assist Christian parents and the local church in their God-given responsibility to bring up their children, God’s covenant children, “in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Eph. 6:4). Because of this emphasis on the nature of God’s covenant with Christian families, Cornerstone and Pusch Ridge exist to support, but not replace, the role of Christian parents as educators of their children.

Christian education includes the work of the home, church and school. Family, church and state are the only institutions ordained in Scripture. The school is a partnership with the family and home.

 

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