Discipleship in Society

We want to see students who:

• Have clearly grasped that the God revealed in the Bible is passionate about justice.
• Have clearly grasped that God calls his covenant people to imitate him in doing justice for the poor, the oppressed, the exploited and the outcast.
• Are sensitive to the different forms of human suffering in our society.
• Study the causes of some of the outstanding social-structural evils (such as economic disparities, militarism, ethnocentrism, abuse of women and children, casteism, dowry-system, attitude to the mentally disabled, etc).
• Have friendships with students from other cultural and economic backgrounds, and have put personal effort into understanding their perceptions, fears and anxieties.
• Are committed to using their education, intelligence and other gifts to expose lies and injustice and to promote truth, justice and reconciliation wherever they live and work.
• Have learned to speak up for victims of abuse and injustice, and not to be bullied by the powerful (e.g. student union leaders, consultants or professors).
• Have learned to practice stewardship- of their money, time, talents, education, etc.
• Have learned to make choices (work, marriage, etc) out of a concern for God’s purposes for the world.
• Will teach in their local churches a vision of the Church as the “first-fruits” of the new humanity in Christ, where all barriers of denomination, class, caste, wealth and gender are being broken down.