Missions Conference Keynote speakers and seminars as well as personal interaction with missionaries provide valuable insight and motivation. Several mission agencies are present to provide helpful information to students seeking God’s direction regarding their mission responsibilities. The conference dramatically changes the direction of many students’ lives. Sunday Observance We require students to attend a local church for Sunday worship. A list of recommended churches is made available to students. 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. Christ Dependent because we tend to depend on ourselves. 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 rules. True righteousness is through faith in Christ. Though rules are important for worship and fellowship, they can never produce genuine
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