Empowering Athens area parents with a hybrid school model focused on the arts.
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What is Sardis Classical Christian Community?
Classical Christian Education in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia
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Why Sardis?
Revelation 3:1-6 addresses the church in Sardis. They were known for their good works but they were strongly rebuked for being dead inside. In ancient Sardis, the early Christians chose to build their church in the shape of a hospital at the base of a pagan temple. They cared for the people that were injured in the grotesque rituals practiced at the temple and told them of Jesus. We were moved by the commitment of this early Christian community. They banded together in a culture saturated in depravity to reach the people around them. Our prayer is that SCCC can not only model the love Sardis had for their community but also take the words of Jesus’ rebuke to the Sardis Christians to heart. We hope to be a community that is just as alive with the love of Jesus internally as we are externally. We pray Jesus’ prayer over his disciples in John 17 over our community. We want our children to be so saturated in truth that they are equipped to go out into the world and be known for the difference they make. We will equip them with deep Biblical literacy, a strong understanding of history, logic, science, and literature as well the ability to see and worship God through art and nature. This is quite the task to complete on our own, but together in community, with the help of the Holy Spirit, we know this is possible.
“Is not the great defect of our education today that although we often succeed in teaching our pupils ‘subjects’, we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think. They learn everything except the art of learning.”
— Dorthy Sayers | The Lost Tools of Learning
