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Community Christian SchoolMembership Meeting Fall 2012
What do John Ortberg, Peter Block, Esther, and Ray Pennings all have in Common?
What do we valueIn Christian education?
The Story of EstherA Lesson in Shadow Missions
Google: “A Leader’s Greatest Fear”
King Xerxes Queen Vashti Haman
Mordechai Esther
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
Esther 4:14
King Xerxes Queen Vashti Haman
Mordechai Esther
Shadow MissionWhat distracts us from our mission?
King XerxesWealth, More
Queen Vashti HamanPower, Control, Prestige
Mordechai EstherSecurity, the Good Life
What is our Shadow Mission?• Financial Security?• More students?• Being Better than the Rest?
Community Christian SchoolMembership Meeting Fall 2012
“There is something in the persistent question How? that expresses each person’s struggle between having confidence in their capacity to live a life of purpose and yielding to the daily demands of being practical.
It is entirely possible to spend our days engaged in activities that work well for us and achieve our objectives, and still wonder whether we are really making a difference in the world.”
“My premise is that this culture, and we as members of it, have yielded too easily to what is doable and practical and popular. In the process we have sacrificed the pursuit of what is in our hearts.
We find ourselves giving in to our doubts, and settling for what we know how to do, or can soon learn how to do, instead of pursuing what most matters to us and living with the adventure and anxiety this requires.”
What do we value?
• Defined by us
• A collective process
• Within our control
What is the value?
• The answer exists already
• Created by others
• Outside our control
Example
Does the evidence support what we value?
Three Summary Points
1. What we Value….
2. Our Shadow Mission….
CCS educates children in a respectful nurturing environment through quality Christ-centred programs.
3. For such a time as this……
What do we valueIn Christian education?
