Moore College: Principal Writes (August 2006)

PRINCIPAL WRITES
with JOHN WOODHOUSE

I never tire of hearing the stories of what has led our students to come to study at Moore College. Within the huge variety of stories, three themes occur again and again.

The first is each person’s experience of the grace of God in Jesus Christ. How wonderful it is to hear of God calling people out of the darkness of guilt and ignorance into the light of sins forgiven and the knowledge of God! People come to Moore College to grow in their knowledge and love of the God who has rescued them from condemnation and made them his own by the death of Jesus for our sins.

The second is a recognition that Jesus Christ is building his congregation. As each person receives God’s gift of forgiveness and acceptance, they become members of the vast body of people who belong to God. People come to Moore College to serve God in the great task of building the congregation (or ‘church’) of Jesus Christ.

The third is the understanding that God chooses to work through the preaching and teaching of his Word. By his Word God calls people to himself, and by his Word the congregation grows in love. People come to Moore College to prepare to teach and preach God’s Word.

Consider the good that will come from people growing in the knowledge and love of God and preparing to serve God as preachers and teachers of his Word. Our prayer is that the work of Moore College today will substantially contribute to the establishment and growth of healthy Christian congregations throughout Sydney and beyond for generations to come.

We cannot presume that our children and grandchildren will grow up in a society where they will have access to a congregation of God’s people, where they can be taught and nurtured in the knowledge of God. There are parts of Australia where this is not the case, and places in the world where it has never been the case.

As you read this will you prayerfully consider whether you might be one of those who ‘come to Moore College’ for the reasons I have mentioned? Do you know others who could be encouraged to do so?

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