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2017 Annual Meeting Plenary Speaker Leonard Sweet

Plenary session video: “The Church Near and Far…Present & Future.”

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2017 Annual Meeting Plenary Speaker Ramesh Richard

Plenary session video: “The Church Near and Far…Present & Future.” – Ramesh Richard

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ABHE Tenets of Faith – Religious Freedom & Human Sexuality

According to the Constitution of the Association for Biblical Higher Education, the following statement of faith is to be subscribed to annually by each member institution through the signature of the president. 1. We believe that there is one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 2. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.

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Biblical Higher Education: Past Commitments, Present Realities, and Future Considerations

This article represents a departure from the normal pattern of a journal in that it purports to offer limited research findings, statistical reports, citation documentation, or academic analysis. Rather, it reflects the views of a veteran higher education administrator who has spent more than 37 years of his life in Christ-centered higher education. The article examines the significant changes that are taking place in the church and in education and the implications for institutions of biblical higher education and their leaders. The paper is divided into three sections: (1) past commitments, (2) present realities, and (3) future considerations.

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Global Christianity and the Role of Theological Education: Wrapping Up and Going Forward

We came together to contemplate the reality, meaning and implications of evangelical Christianity’s global nature and the role of theological education in light of these phenomena. We have witnessed and experienced the increasingly global deployment and development of evangelical theological education, including its maturing expressions through the eight member agencies and numerous associates and affiliates comprising ICETE.

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President’s Annual Report 2017 – Growing Leaders for a Growing Movement

Biblical higher education has a differentiation problem. Despite our efforts to establish a distinctive identity for Bible colleges or, as some prefer, institutions of biblical higher education, the research makes it clear that the presence and particularity of our sector is largely invisible and, in any case, indistinguishable from other sectors of Christian higher education. In my judgment, our way forward is to concentrate less on distinguishing ourselves from other sectors of Christian higher education and instead seek to distinguish ourselves among the variety of players that comprise North America’s Christian higher education landscape. Simply put, we have work to do on branding. What is our essential promise to students and parents?

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President’s Annual Report 2018 – When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It.

You might say ABHE has come to a fork in the road as we cross the threshold into our 8th decade of existence. For more than two years, ABHE’s executive leadership team, Commission on Accreditation, and Board of Directors have been discussing strategic challenges and opportunities and their implications for the nature and composition of our Association in the days ahead. At their October 29-30, 2017 meetings, the Board and COA officers voted to recommend Delegate Assembly adoption of substantial Constitution and Bylaws changes to enable these strategic proposals. The proposals have been communicated to and thoughtfully discussed among our members in a series of regional Town Hall gatherings during December 2017 and January 2018. We stand on the threshold of a historic vote to adopt these proposals at our February 23, 2018 Delegate Assembly gathering.

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Reassessing Bible College Distinctives

Few would challenge the assertion that the Bible college movement has been a bastion of biblical vitality within American evangelicalism for decades. A large percentage of the evangelical clergy and missionary force are Bible college or Bible institute graduates. Evangelical churches are blessed with biblically competent, committed, earnest, and faithful Bible college graduates who serve as laypersons to anchor and augment the work of the church. By the 1970s, Bible colleges, lightly esteemed by more mainstream higher educational institutions, began to find their place within the higher education community.

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