Welcome. We feel extraordinarily privileged that you would entrust us with your lives and with your sons and daughters.

We don't take it lightly. Bethlehem College and Seminary

exists to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of

all peoples. And we do it by trying to model and

instill habits of mind and heart which see what is really there in the world and in the word and

understand what they understand,

and evaluate fairly what they understand,

and feel intensely, either negatively or positively,

what they have evaluated and then apply to all of life that wisdom and

then express it with effectiveness which implies that when you put the mission together with that strategy,

we are a radically God-centered institution.

We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God, and we are relentlessly love oriented, meaning if we don't do this for the joy of all peoples.

And if we don't see and understand and evaluate and feel and apply and express effectively for the good of others, we fail.

So there's this for the supremacy of God in all things and there's this relentless this

is for the good of others which is so relevant right now because our culture is collapsing, crumbling before

our eyes at an unprecedented pace into a kind of evil that we would have thought

unthinkable, which means that we're all tempted who try to be Bible people to be

self-protective and fortress-oriented.

And the love dimension can just shrivel up and they can go to

hell because that's the way they're living. That's not what we're about.

Fortresses are appropriate and have their place.

The church is a bulwark and pillar of the truth. But to our dying breath we live for others. So my point in this message after I pray now is to make a case from the Bible that thinking exists for the sake of loving.

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