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Donald Opitz

The Intellectual Pathway

Learning for the Love of God: A Student’s Guide to Academic Faithfulness by Donald Opitz and Derek Melleby (Brazos Press, 2014).

Why Are We Students?

We study in order to
understand God’s good creation
and the ways sin has distorted it,
so that, in Christ’s Power, we may
bring healing to persons and the created order.
As God’s image-bearers we are preparing
to exercise responsible authority
in our task of cultivating the creation
to the end that all people and all things may
joyfully acknowledge and serve
their Creator and true King.

— The Student Creed by Donald Opitz and Derek Melleby (Learning for the Love of God: A Student’s Guide to Academic Faithfulness. Brazos Press, 2014, 112-113).

Sacred Pathways: Discover Your Soul’s Path to God by Gary Thomas (Zondervan, 2010).

The Student Creed was among the resources which my wife Theresa and I wove into The Intellectual/Conceptual Pathway (Manheim Brethren in Christ Church, 8/3/2014). The presentation (video) serves as the third in the local congregation’s developing Hunger & Thirst: The Many Unique Ways We Connect With God series, based upon Gary Thomas’ Sacred Pathways: Discover Your Soul’s Path to God (Zondervan, 2010)[1].

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