Therefore, I take seriously my job to discern what products and services are truly helpful for our mission and respectful of our parents, and then discard the rest. We will only choose those endeavors that are good and purposeful. After all, you did not send your children to Trinity so you could be sold magazines.
Here is an important fact for us all to remember: 21st Century Americans are the most advertised group of people in the history of the world. Think of all the bumper stickers, poster boards, catalogs, T-shirts, catchy songs, animated banners on websites, television commercials (with the volume a notch higher than the program), and the television programs themselves. More recently, advertisers are using our Internet activity to pitch us products unique to our current interests. They target our weaknesses and speak to the secret idols in our hearts.
At Trinity, we teach students to apply Christian worldview thinking:
1) We want them to discern what is true. As they are bombarded each day with advertisements demanding their attention, or more subtly manipulating their desires, we want students to test everything against a truth standard, recognizing the value of God’s Word “for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.”
2 Tim 3:16
2) We want them to choose what is good. These soliciting sights and sounds do not roll off of us like we were Teflon. An argument has entered into our minds and tugged on our hearts; we must make a choice, often a moral choice. So, we maintain this goal for our children: that they may “love the Lord their God with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength.”
3) We want them to beautifully express the reasons for those choices. We teach them to do this in their writing, speaking, art, music, architectural design, scientific study, computer programming, etc. All these can serve a purpose, and there is no higher purpose than to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. We want our students to express great truths beautifully, whimsically, powerfully, so that others may learn to discern what is true, choose what is good, and throw out the junk mail.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1
Stephen Sprague
Headmaster