Sunday Observance We encourage students to attend a local church for Sunday worship services, including Sunday School and morning and evening worship. At certain times during the year, services are provided on campus. Prayer Bands Beginning in the spring semester, students select a student prayer band which meets for the purpose of praying for the special needs of students, missionaries, and regions of the world. Prayer bands usually meet at least once a week. Visiting missionaries are often invited to share. STUDENT LIFE PHILOSOPHY At the Bible Institute we pursue life change! The Student Life Department facilitates this by maintaining an atmosphere conducive to growth in faith, hope, and love. This atmosphere is cultivated in the dorms, in co-curricular activities, in campus service assignments, and in ministry. Our philosophy describes the approach we take and is well summarized in the following verses: “We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom so that we may present every man complete in Christ. For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.” (Colossians 1:28-29) To that end, the philosophy of the Student Life Department centers around three concepts: A . CHR I S T DE P ENDENT BE CAU S E WE TEND TO DE P END ON OUR S E L V E S . 1 Corinthians 1:30-31; 2 Corinthians 12:9-10; Galatians 2:20; Philippians 3:1-16; Colossians 2:1-23; 3:1-3 Scripture teaches that Christ is our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. He is our life, our hope of glory, and the One in whom we are now hidden in God. Every day we are called to live out these realities by faith. We share the same concern as the apostle Paul, who said, “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.” (2 Corinthians 11:3) Therefore, we desire to continually point students to Christ, who is the object of their faith, and away from a dependence upon themselves and the tendency to pursue self-righteousness in their own strength by keeping the
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