Thank you for the insightful thoughts on one of my favorite passages in Isaiah. Often we long for a “smooth” paved way in this life, but many times our road is filled with turns, twists and bumps.
Helping young people discover and know that in their highway of life, they can have a deep faith and assurance that God is right there with them, well that alone is worth the price of a Christian School Education!

I always love reading your thoughts.

Thank you for taking the commission given to us in Matthew 28 to “make disciples” seriously at WCS. Dallas Willard notes that neglecting to focus on discipleship in Christian community is an all too common phenomenon that he calls “The Great Omission.” In his book, Living the Mission, he writes:

“For at least several decades the churches of the Western world have not made discipleship a condition of being a Christian. One is not required to be, or to intend to be, a disciple in order to become a Christian, and one may remain a Christian without any signs of progress toward or in discipleship. Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or local church. . .”

It is a sad, but accurate observation of The Church, in general; but I am proud that the WCS family, as part of the church universal, is committed to being obedient to the practice of making and forming disciples.

Grace and Peace~
Tracy