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The world of the 21st Century can be a very challenging place. Breakthrough advances in technology, a networked global economy, and rapidly-changing landscape at home and abroad can dizzy us with endless images and questions. While a world on the cutting edge of Creation is discovering new dilemmas and challenges that test our foundational views of life, age-old discussions continue to be recycled, rediscussed, and reviewed on issues that have been before God’s people for centuries.
You are nearing the end of high school phase of your lives. As you transition into adulthood, these issues and challenges become yours. No longer can you rely on parents, grandparents, and other adult in your lives to be your voice, but your responsibility as a Kingdom citizen is to think, contemplate, discern, and speak as a builder of God’s World.
In this course, we will delve into several issues that find themselves as lead stories on the evening news and splashed across the front pages of our magazines and newspapers. But we’ll also look at those issues that, while buried in one-paragraph or one-bit sound bites, still call us to meet the challenge of bringing peace, justice, and love throughout God’s Kingdom.
The bookends of this course will be an introductory unit that examines the role of the Christian in today’s world and a final summary section in May that will seek to pull together your Christian education experience and reflect on how it has prepared you to become equipped to “serve God according to His Word and to glorify God by honoring Him in all aspects of life.”
Course Topics
Introduction—Salt and Light: Living as a Christian
ISSUES UNITS
Conclusion—Putting it All Together
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