PCU and GKU

Dan Brannen led the study portion of ICF on Friday. The following is a brief description:

Imagine that we are high school students, touring different universities. The two universities we get to tour today are Politically Correct University (PCU) and God's Kingdom University (GKU).

At the PCU tour, we learned about how to distinguish between values. PCU gave us a value (like running away from bears), and we had to choose whether it was a 1 - personal value, 2 - cultural value, or 3 - universal value. Individuals were asked why they thought the value was one of the three. Some of the other values were speaking Arabic, speaking Arabic as a foreign language, and wearing white mourning robes for 30 days.

During the GKU, we learned that we need to determine our values based on God's book - the Bible. We base our values on what the KING wants and what His Book (the Bible) says, not on our personal opinion or on what the culture around us tells us. Like the PCU tour, we had to choose between 3 categories. The categories are 1 - celebrate/embrace, 2 - reject, and 3 - redeem. The celebrate category includes values that are in-line with the Bible and should be enjoyed and celebrated. The reject category includes things in-which the Bible teaches against. And the redeem category includes values which are wrong, but which can be turned into something good. Like before, individuals were asked to state why they picked each category for the value stated. Some of the values included wearing a jade dragon, having more than one wife, arranged marriages, and "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas".

As students of GKU, we would learn that we should not reject all of the cultural values of the country that we live in. As the three categories suggest, there are some values that should be embraced and others that should be rejected, and others that need to be redeemed. Some of the verses that address these issues are 1 John 2:15-17, Matthew 5:13-16, Phillipians 2:14-15, and Ephesians 5:8-11. I encourage you to look them up right now.

After touring these two university and participating in the games where we had to decide what category each value fit into, which university do you want to go to? Why? What are some of your thoughts about it?