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Mission College Handbook |
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Introduction |
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As one lifts his eyes toward heaven through the Word and prayer, there grows within the heart the conviction that the tread of Mighty Armies is drawing ever closer and closer. The rays of the golden morning are fast approaching. Jesus soon will come! The question is: Are we ready? Have we faithfully fulfilled the Master’s commission—Go ye into all the world? Are our families and friends ready? Or do we even care?
One very casual look around and we know of a certainty that planet earth is not ready to meet its Creator. Yet the billows of hell resound around us with deafening force that our time of peaceful work for the Master could well be limited. So what do we do?
We believe the time is over-ripe to roll up the sleeves and be about our Father’s business. It is this urgency that permeates our lives, goals, and actions. Time is short. Training must be short. Needs are profound. Application must be profound. The resulting program is the three-month training upon which you are about to embark. As the scenes around us are intense so must the preparation be intense. Sober diligence and serious study will be necessary to adequately meet the challenge.
Yet this intensity must be balanced. You must purpose in your heart not to defile your body temple with intemperance in rest, exercise, water, or diet; and even more importantly not to defile your soul temple with insufficient personal devotions, impure thoughts or actions, or reckless pursuits. In as much as the schedule is very tight, you must stay very focused.
We as an administration must also stay focused in order to provide you with the necessary tools to adequately perform your calling once your formal training is ended. Therefore, serious breaches of the principles and policies outlined in this handbook will call for dismissal rather than reconciliation, which would normally take precedence. We want this to be clearly understood. Because this is a very highly specialized training, it is assumed that the participants have a fairly well developed level of spiritual commitment and maturity and are therefore capable of focusing their energies towards a very specific and predetermined goal. All our energies must be free to work towards this end for a satisfactory completion of the course. |
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