We report for duty with God’s truth (The Bible) being empowered by his Spirit to walk in dependent trust expressed in constant conversation with God and seeing God’s children as our brothers and sisters of his one family. The other four values all support or enable the mission. Every Christian is a sent one, all called to join him in his mission. We would say it is THE theme, mission and purpose of God’s activity in the world. It is our mission our reason for existing as a school. It is not our foundational starting point or the guiding parameters on how we relate. Prayer & Faith (value #4) and Evangelical Unity (value #5) describe how we will relate to God and other Christians as we live out our mission.īut World Evangelization (value #3) is different from the other four. It critical to observe that the Bible (value #1) and the work of the Holy Spirit in every Christian (value #2) are foundational to how we will approach knowing Christ and making him known. It is beyond the scope of this article to go in depth on these five values. They remain vital to understanding CIU and since I have been a part of CIU twice in my own journey, 1977-1983 as student and staff, and since 1997 as faculty member and director of alumni I have adopted them as my personal foundational values. Under the son of the founder, Robertson McQuilkin, president from 1968 to 1990, the values of the school were distilled and clarified. To be more personal, is this a ‘kairos’ moment for me and Columbia International University (, the ministry where I currently live out my service to Christ?ĬIU started in 1923 as part of the Bible College movement of the early 20th century. In the New Testament kairos means "the appointed time in the purpose of God", the time when God acts (e.g. Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment (the supreme moment).
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