Teaching Identity

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​“Follow Your Heart." “Speak Your Truth.” “You Do You.”
These very familiar cliches sound great. And if they sound familiar to us, they are even more familiar to our children who are growing up in a culture that constantly bombards them with these well-meaning but objectively false aphorisms. Should you really follow your heart? The truth is: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9).
 
Is my truth really different than your truth? Jesus says: “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:31–32). Should our children really live by “You do you” and simply live out whatever they feel? One of the worst periods in human history is recorded for us: “Everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25). The resulting isolation, despair, carnage, and suffering were immense, both personally and nationally. 
 
As we begin our 79th year at Wilmington Christian School, we are excited to announce our 2024–2025 theme:
 
IDENTITY: I Am Who GOD Says I Am.  ​

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What a great mission we have this year to help our students answer the fundamental questions of humanity. These are questions that people of all cultures have been asking since the beginning. Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose in life? Is there more to life than this? What’s the meaning of it all?
 
As we study Scripture, we discover that our identity does not begin with us. It begins with our Creator. And it is only when a person rightly sees God for who He is that they can rightly see themselves for who God created them to be. We want our students to know and follow Christ as their Savior (salvation), to grow in their walk with Him (discipleship), and to eagerly embrace His call to impact the culture for Christ. We seek to equip our students to be effective missionaries in whatever location and vocation God calls them.  
 
Our theme passage this year is from Psalm 8. We echo the psalmist’s declaration, “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” (Psalm 8:1).
 
The psalmist asked, 
“When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?” (Psalm 8:3–4).
 
The psalmist discovered,
“. . . You have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet . . . .” (Psalm 8:5–6).
 
Please join us in praying that this year, each of the precious children and teens that God has in our school will truly see God for who He is and then be able to see the extraordinary purpose and design He has for each of them.
 Educating for Eternity,
Jonathan Nazigian
WCS Headmaster