PORTRAIT OF A RCA GRADUATE

Every young person who graduates from Rogue Christian Academy is unique, and will have his own particular calling and gifts – so in one sense it is impossible to paint a picture of a “typical” graduate of RCA. That said, there are qualities that we hope everyone who graduates from the school possesses.

Godly Character

Under God’s grace, we pray that graduates of RCA will possess a tender-hearted devotion to Jesus Christ, a godly character, and a longing for holiness. We strive to “educate unto virtue” – and if we only manage to graduate students who are talented and eloquent but lack a love of God and neighbor, then we will have failed. We pray that our graduates will receive by faith all that our God has revealed to them and promised to them in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ – “but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you might have life in his name “ (John 20:31).

We pray that by God’s grace our graduates will exhibit the “fruit of the spirit” as described in Galatians 5; that they will consistently and faithfully exhibit the qualities of true Christian love found amongst those who possess new life in Jesus Christ (I Corinthians 13); that they will exhibit integrity, dignity, and reverence for authorities and orders established by God; that they will strive to honor God and respond to His grace by seeking to please Him in all things with genuine and heartfelt obedience to Him; that they learn to use the gifts that God has given to them to serve others, rather than for “selfish ambition or conceit”, “but in humility to count others more significant than themselves” (Philippians 2:3). We pray that our graduates will demonstrate servants’ hearts who is “full of faith and the Holy Spirit,” and to serve the poor and the widows.

We strive to inculcate in our students a love of what is good, true, and beautiful. They love goodness – virtue and faithful loving obedience. They love the truth – God’s Word. And they love both the natural beauty of God’s creation, as well as the beauty of what man, made in God’s image, has created – great works of art, music, architecture, and literature. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Philippians 4:8

Wisdom & Eloquence

We earnestly pray that in addition to exhibiting godly character, our graduates will be wise and eloquent. They will have learned a corpus of knowledge that makes them truly educated young men and women – a deep familiarity with the broad themes of Western heritage, of great works of literature and art and music, of math and science, language, and above all the Queen of sciences – theology. They will be wise and discerning, not easily swayed by superficial arguments, but able to dissect and critically analyze what they hear and read. We pray their wisdom will be guided by the Spirit of God; they will be able to eloquently express their convictions, and under God’s providence they will be used by Him. Upon graduation from Rogue Christian Academy, our graduates will have a basis for a lifelong devotion of being “transformed by the renewal of their minds, that by testing they may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2).

Moreover, our prayer is that all of our graduates will be well prepared to discern what particular calling that God has ordained for them, and that their broad, integrated, classical education will serve as a foundation that will equip them as they continue to learn and serve for the rest of their lives.

We believe that these aims of godly character, and wisdom and eloquence, are complementary. We believe that God is glorified as our graduates use the gifts of intelligence and talents that He gave them, for His good purposes. Our prayer is that our students, at their end, will hear these words from our Lord, “Well done, good and faithful servant,” and that their experience at RCA will have contributed substantially to the formation of redeemed and equipped men and women, who, under the grace of God, are worthy of such a reception at the last.