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--Introduction to Systematic Theology

The Theology Program is an intense theological studies program, designed for busy people who may never go to seminary but who want deep theological training. While there are many great subjects, biblical and spiritual, that Christians can and need to study, our focus is on seven specific courses of systematic theology. Our desire is to teach people how to think by opening their minds to diverse views, learning from history, wrestling with difficult issues, and graciously engaging an increasingly relativistic and postmodern world.

We are all real people created by a real God, and we all have real struggles, real questions, and real convictions. We are glad that you are here!

The great commission: “And He said unto them. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” Mark 16:15 Our Lord gave His church an evangelistic commission—to be witnesses of the gospel. Every single person we will try to reach with the gospel is embedded in some culture.

Our Mission And Goal

Mission

: Renewing minds and changing lives by purposefully guiding people through a study of historic and biblical Christian theology.

Goal

Our goal is not so much to teach good theology, as important as that is, but to teach people to think

Aristotle once described our challenge as the problem of a fish in water. Knowing nothing but life in the water, that never even realizes it is wet.

This describes the situation of many Christians in our times—they do not even know that they are wet. We are swimming in one of the most complex and challenging cultural contexts ever experienced by the Christian church. Every day brings a confrontation with cultural messages, controversies, and products. We are bombarded with advertisements, entertainments, and the chatter of the culture all around us. We are Aristotle’s fish to some degree.

APOLOGETICS

C.S Lewis said, to be ignorant and simple Now, not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground, would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren, who have, under God no defence but us against the intellectual heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. Secularism is the capital of that kind of thinking, and the Christian faith must be taken to that kind of thinking.

The rise of secular gods such as atheism, scientism and more, presents a serious challenge to the absolute claims of Christ. The Christian worldview has not only been devalued and dismissed by modern culture, but its believers are openly ridiculed as irrelevant. In our Apologetics classes, we skilfully point out the fallacies in those claims and present compelling evidence for revealed absolute truth as found in Jesus. Truths that will guide and help us talk to others on how best the Christian faith is rationally credible and existentially relevant

Understanding the culture thus becomes a matter of evangelistic urgency. In the end, the culture and its challenges will pass away. But our Lord has left us here for a reason—as His people, we are to be salt and light in a dying world. My hope is that these classes will assist you as you seek to be faithful to Christ as a concerned and intelligent Christian.