Insights

One of the joys of working at Logos Prep is getting to teach our Worldview class alongside our principal, Mr. Henderson. When we start our comparative religion section we start off with a recap of Christianity so that we can come back and show how the other religions that we cover will compare with Christianity. During this section we bring up the fact that Christianity has over 20,000 subdivisions. 

Yes. You read that correctly. 20,000+ subdivisions of Christianity. 

We then pause and talk about what could possibly contribute to these subdivisions. Stories are told and jaws are picked up off the floor. If Christ has called us to unity, why are Christians and Christian churches not unified? At some point our students realize that throughout history, the Christian church has lost the concept of Jesus as teacher and we have begun to follow other “truths”.

One of the questions we ask often in Worldview is, “Where is that in the Bible?” or “What does Jesus say about that?”. We want our students to consistently come back to the Scriptures. In the culture that our students are growing up in, and the social media accounts that they are being influenced by it is very easy for our students to lose Christ as teacher. Anybody can make a statement about what it means to be a Christian and put it on social media. It could be true. It could be 100% off base. But because it is on social media...we don’t take the time to question it.

As adults we do this as well. We have, over the years, come to define our Christianity by a set of checkboxes instead of simply doing all we can to live like Jesus lived. We are more concerned with stances than the Fruit of the Spirit. We have forgotten what it is to be a people defined by their love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control and in doing so, we are slowly but surely adding to more of those 20,000+ subdivisions.

So, may we, as those who claim the name of Jesus, return to Him as teacher. May we fall in love with the Word made flesh, again and again. May we take his teachings seriously. May we believe that His way is the best way and may we work towards unity in the Church for the sake of the name of Jesus.

Joel Gutowsky
Director of Student Life
Logos Preparatory Academy