Dear Parents and Friends of CCS,

May this issue of Parent News find you experiencing the grace and goodness of God!

In this week’s post I’d like to focus on the final points of 10 Distinctives of Gospel Centered Education.

These Distinctives lie at the heart of our CCS@50! Vision, and are unique to how we carry out our mission here at CCS.

I share these distinctives not to boast that we are necessarily superior to other schools, or that we do all of these things perfectly, but simply to suggest that not all educational programs come from the same perspective. This is the pathway that God has laid out for us, and we rejoice in it and celebrate its uniqueness.

Please note that these do not represent everything we do or hold to be important, but are listed either because they are not, to our knowledge, practiced at other schools, or are practiced in a singular and unique way here at CCS.

This week we’ll focus on the final two Distinctives: 9 & 10

Distinctive 9 God’s self-revelation in the inspired, inerrant, true, reliable, authoritative Word of God acts as the “DNA” of the ministry. It is the bedrock of absolute truth upon which we come to understand and embrace the Gospel of the Kingdom, and it acts as the final arbitrator in our decision-making and all matters of faith and practice.

Distinctive 10 Pursuing a Biblical view of extracurricular activities, believing that the ultimate value of the creative arts and athletics is not primarily the good they do for participants (though they do much good), but rather that these mediums are some of the most powerful bridges into contemporary culture that we have at our disposal. In other words, the gospel purpose is primary, and the individual growth achieved is also important, though necessarily secondary.

Next week I will begin a series of articles that unpack the CCS@50 Vision! in more detail.

In the end, it is our prayer that sharing the vision that God is currently downloading will be another step toward furthering His agenda for gospel-centered teaching and learning at CCS.

May He receive all of the glory as we move step by step toward becoming a truly extraordinary school.

For CCS and the Kingdom,

Tom