Learning at Our Christian School: What's your cornerstone?

 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” Psalm 111: 10

Some of you may know that this text is built right into our building in the form of a keystone installed as part of a wall. It is located immediately outside the kindergarten classrooms. At one point that text was actually outside our building; now it is inside our beautiful facility that the Lord has blessed us with to live out our vision statement which states  “To educate children, equipping them for a life of faithful, Christian discipleship.”

I echo the strong emphasis that the founders of our school placed by choosing this anchor text for our anchor stone in 1962. We can’t truly know anything rightly unless we begin with God. For instance, consider two viewpoints from which to view life:

Lense A	Lense B
What do I get? Motivated by personal gain Live for yourself Truth is relative, you decide You are what people say about you Fulfill your dreams Motivated to do one’s best by fear of failure or rejection Things happen by random chance	How can I help? Motivated by advancing the kingdom of God Lose your life, they you will find it Truth is absolute, we pursue it together Identity comes from what God says about you Fulfill your calling Motivated to do one’s best in gratitude to God as a faithful response The world is ordered and upheld by a living God

May God bless our very important work of nurturing biblical wisdom in His children everyday at LCES!

SJ