| The university tradition which
now blankets the earth tears into tiny course-sized fragments
the reality of God and His Creation and even the human
story. Thus, the average believer never sees the whole
picture. We felt there were many reasons to put that picture
back together and make sure the result properly reflects
the Biblical emphasis upon God and His mission to all
the world.
While are pleased that our Perspectives
Study Program has now encompassed over 50,000 students,
we have been chagrined to realize that a single course
is merely a bandaid in comparison to what we ought to
do. Thus, we got tired of merely trying to add to, "patch
up" and reintegrate the college and seminary courses
which people had already studied. What was needed could
not be done in a single additional course like Perspectives.
So we decided we would invade the mainstream
curriculum, the legendary "liberal arts" curriculum,
and invest it at every point with what we feel is the
proper content and perspective, teaching everything
people would normally learn in college and seminary
(aside from vocational specialties) and doing so with
a broad, 4,000-year global, mission perspective.
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