from the PRESIDENT
William Jessup University is living in at least the third season of its life. Coursing through the veins of our bloodline is a deep and abiding commitment to proclaim the good news of Jesus to the world around us. Proclamation of the love of God for a deeply needy world has been happening in and through Jessup for 75 years. Students in global settings serving as missionaries around the world join with students in local communities serving the poor, the marginalized and caring for widows and orphans in the name of Jesus. Tese and a host of other passion driven student ministries remain the same today as they did the first year that ‘Brother Bill’ helped to birth San Jose Bible College.
If many things have remained the same, what is different about Jessup in 2015 than San Jose Bible College in 1939? Outside the obvious differences in time and place, I think there are at least three different streams that characterize the Jessup of today and tomorrow that might be slightly different than the heritage of the past.
We have declared the end of the sacred and secular divide. Today students at Jessup continue to be ministers and missionaries. However, they do so in the church, in their families, in education, in the marketplace, in government, in health care, and in arts, media and entertainment. We are equipping transformational leaders to lift up Jesus in every family, organization, community and culture in our world. You will read throughout this issue how others are drawn to Jessup to see what God is doing in Northern California.
We are declaring an eschatology of hope. Rather than declaring the inevitable destruction of our world, we are raising up a generation of world changers who simultaneously submit to the sovereign hand of God and accept their respective assignments to be salt and light in all nations. Jessup students are bringing people to Jesus and Jesus to people across the frontiers of our world.
We declare the goodness of God. Romans 2:4 tells us that the kindness of God leads us to repentance. While we are very clear about the reality of human sin and what the word of God says about rejecting Him, we have determined to declare the truth of God found in John 3:17 that Jesus came to the world not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
Everywhere we go we see the fruit of the sacrifices that have been made these past 75 years. I pray that you will read these pages and be inspired about the faithfulness of God both yesterday, today and for all the tomorrows yet to come.
For His Glory,
John Jackson, Ph.D. President
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