The third secret for why God used D.L. Moody so powerfully is that he was a deep and practical student of the Bible. At Verideia students memorize Bible passages on a three-year cycle, they learn the overarching historical narrative of the Bible and in grades seven/eight they learn how to study the Bible.
The primary reason for education from the Christian perspective is to equip the next generation to study God’s Word for themselves. God has provided His Word, to be a guide for our feet and a light for our path, the very instructions needful for lives lived pleasing to our Lord. In general, the public no longer sees being equipped to be a lifelong student of the Scriptures as the primary importance of education. At Verideia we want to equip students with the tools to read and understand the Word of God while fostering a wonder and appetite for mining its riches.
“The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarifier of my affections, the mirror of my thoughts, the consoler of my sorrows, the guide of my soul through the gloomy labyrinth of time, the telescope sent from heaven to reveal to the eye of man the amazing glories of the far distant world. The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, that can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written.”
J. Q. ADAMS
R.A. Torrey continues in discussing the secret of Moody’s influence. “Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore, ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service.” May we all strive to be students of the Word!
