Within our Christian School community, teaching is by parents and other relatives, by churches through Sunday School and youth fellowship, and preaching and teaching, through teachers and other staff at the School. The first way of teaching is by example or modelling, and secondly but also importantly, by instruction and training. Within the Christian community of a family and also a local church, and within the community of Pacific Hills, as a Christian educational community, this teaching should be from Biblical foundations, through love and involvement the integration of faith through all of life. That means faith and learning, faith in the marketplace, faith and social life, and faith in vocational life. In other words, faith in the truth that is from God that is unchanged and unchanging forms the solid foundation by which our words, actions and attitudes are informed.
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Learning within a Christian school community takes place from the teaching, from the above members of the community, in other words, from significant others in the life of the learner. Therefore, learning takes place from God’s Word, by His Spirit and from creation and from historical sources and also from our contemporary world. The foundations are unchanging and need to be strongly held whilst the ways in which we learn may differ from place to place, generation to generation, and person to person.
A community must be a place of service, both of its members internally, as each part does its work, and also in order to be healthy, there must be service of others beyond the local community. We understand this as the direct command from God who teaches us to look upwards in worship to Him and to look outward in service to others, whilst at the same time, growing in the grace and knowledge of God within the Christian community. This service should take place as a matter of course and be expressed in ways that are sacrificial and generous. In those ways, we are reflecting the ways in which our Master, Jesus, lived His life as God incarnate on this planet, Earth.
Therefore, let us all, as members of a Christian school community, encourage each other as we live together, to be an authentic community of Christian believers. As we do this, we will make the teaching of God our Saviour attractive (Titus 2:10), and fulfil the command of Christ to follow Him, to be his witnesses and ambassadors and to make disciples in His name.
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