Presidential Leadership

Both the Old and New Testaments (Daniel 2:21; I Thessalonians 5:1) instruct us that awareness of the times and seasons is a gift to be sought. Such awareness requires leaders with the gift of insight to distinguish between chronos—you might say, markingtime—and kairos—you might say, making the most of time in terms of redemptive engagement.  I ardently believe that the times in which we live represent a Kairos moment for Christian higher education.

ABHE’s collective understanding regarding the essence of our educational approach has become crystallized in terms of the following four concepts:  biblical, transformational, experiential, and missional. In my previous post, I asserted that when we describe education as biblical we mean that we engage intentionally and pervasively in education that involves extensive and serious study of the text of God’s eternal Word based on our conviction that the Bible is infallible, essential, authoritative, and understandable.