We strive to ensure that God’s glory is the chief aim of all developments at CCA. If it doesn’t honor the Lord, we won’t do it. And if the Lord commands it, we will do it. But the Bible doesn’t say what curriculum we should use or whether we should upgrade our technology, for example.

So yes, there are lots of things the Bible doesn’t speak directly about, but we strive to think through everything through the lens of Scripture and ask ourselves: Is this program going to encourage and promote faithfulness to God’s Word, or is it going to distract from it?

Maybe we are a bit outdated when it comes to technology — largely on purpose. Why? While technology can be great in some ways, overall, do we really think it is drawing students closer to the Lord, or is it pulling them away? I think the answer is clear.

Those are just examples, but we strive to be most concerned about God and giving others a high view of Him.

Romans 11:36
“For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.”

This is why we strive to do all things with excellence, whether it’s academics, after-school activities, school programs, chapel, and so on. It’s all an opportunity to glorify Him and reveal Him as He is in His Word.

We even strive to view the exposure of sin in a student’s life as a grace from the Lord and an opportunity to glorify God — for the student, the staff member, and the parents. It’s an opportunity to train them in righteousness and for their sin to be exposed in a godly environment where they will be instructed in the truth and, Lord willing, prepared to glorify the Lord when they are grown and no one else is watching and the world is encouraging sin.

If we have a high view of God as we should, then we must also have a high view of His Word. For where do we learn about who God is and that we ought to do everything for His glory? In His written revelation of Himself. In His Word. If you love God, then you love His Word.

His Word is our ultimate authority. His Word is the source of truth and the only book that makes sense of the world we live in and what we are supposed to do about it.

God’s Word is where we learn of our great need for a Savior and God’s great provision of the gospel.

Even the most well-behaved students are sinners and need to hear that from kindergarten through 12th grade. This stands in stark contrast to what the world is trying to teach them at every turn. The world says, “You’re a good person. Follow your heart. Believe in yourself no matter what.” But God’s Word says friendship with the world is hostility toward God (James 4:4). Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Christ (Matthew 16:24).

Why do we teach them these hard truths from Scripture? So that they might turn to Christ. So that they would know the greatest news in all of history. His Word is where we learn that God provided a Savior through the sacrifice of His own Son. God’s Word has the power to save, and it is the only true source of hope for our students.

It’s not about simply teaching kids to have good moral values or just making sure students know they can’t change their gender — though those things are important in today’s world, and that alone makes us stand out. But that’s such a low bar.

I met with a family a while back who was telling me about the school their child was coming from. The school was providing a litter box in the restroom for a child who identified as a cat. And so what can often happen is that people recognize they don’t want that. They don’t want their kids being taught this nonsense, and rightfully so. But people do not always recognize that the solution is not simply teaching conservative values. To just teach that you can’t change your gender, you can’t be a cat, and you should be nice to other people — all true — is still not enough.

The solution to these issues goes much deeper than that. If we were just about teaching conservative values for their own sake, then we would be in the business of training up Pharisees — self-righteous people who are still lost and do not know it. That might create productive, respectable citizens, but it does not address the main issue, which is sin in our hearts. We teach students that they are sinners so we can show them how great our Savior is.

We exist to proclaim Christ and to carry out the Great Commission by teaching students to obey all that Christ has commanded. We are unashamed to declare the whole counsel of God. To use the words of Martin Luther, we strive to make sure that “God’s Word reigns paramount.”

“I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.” - Martin Luther

We exist for parents. We exist to support parents in their God-given responsibility to diligently teach their children God’s Word (Deut. 6), to raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord (Eph. 6), and to train them to mature in godliness so that they will become godly, responsible adults.

We do not take the role of parents, but we do believe it is important for parents to have other people partnering with them to share truth with their children as well. We are thrilled to partner with parents in this church and in this community to give their children the opportunity for a biblically based education that supports their God-given task rather than works in opposition to it.

And the world is working in opposition to it. The world views it as a shameful thing to raise your children according to God’s Word — to actually do all that it says. But God says it is the best thing for them. So we simply want to be another voice in their lives pointing them to the Savior.

Harvard University was founded in 1636, originally with the intention of training men to be pastors. Obviously, much has changed since then. Harvard’s “Rules and Precepts” were adopted in 1646 and state this:

“Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3) and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning.”

Our greatest desire is to give students Christ — to reveal who He is in the Word so that they would know Him.