truth and meaning

School of Theology

The Imago Dei School of Theology exists to equip Christ followers to know, love, and serve God and His people. Our mission is to cultivate theological competence and integrated lifestyle among Christ followers for ministry to the world. Classes in Bible, theology, spiritual formation, culture, and ministry will be at the core of the program.

Classes are free of charge and open to everyone. The only expense for students is the purchase of any books or supplies.

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But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

-Ephesians 4:7, 11-13

 

 

 

 
 

truth & meaning

Truth exists wholly outside of and apart from us. We encounter it when things are not going our way, when things feel beyond our control. Our self-centered illusions of autonomy evaporate at the revelation of Truth, for it possesses all authority and leaves us astonished. Truth argues with no one because it does not need to. Its supremacy is made self-evident by its mere existence. There is nothing we can contribute to the Truth as if it could be improved or altered. It stands independently complete as the fountain producing our completion. Yet this is not how Truth was revealed to us. It did not come in strength but in weakness. Truth took on the form of a lie and lived in humility as the servant of liars.

This Truth is the eternally existing, murdered, risen person Jesus Christ. He grew up before us without any beauty that we should desire him. Though he never ceased to be the Truth, we looked upon him and declared him a blasphemy. We saw him without seeing him in order that God's purpose of redemption would be fulfilled. Our lies were counted as his, and his Truth as ours. We have, therefore, in the Truth become the truthfulness of God. By valuing the Truth above all we value Jesus Christ above all. He alone has the power both to lay his life down and to take it up again that he might purify for himself a people for his own possession.

Jesus' purification does not simply cleanse our past, giving us a clean slate and nothing more. The purification that comes from Christ powerfully preserves our truthfulness unto eternity. It produces what it requires, leaving nothing to the achievement of liars. The Truth living in us is our only hope of glory. It is in this power, which is not from us, that we have hope to continue living for our meaning as the People of God on Earth.