Defection

   I was reading recently that Yale University had celebrated its 287th anniversary. The article recounted how the school was started in Killingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who were dissatisfied with the growing liberalism at nearby Harvard University. Some 40-plus years later, the school moved to New Haven, Connecticut and was renamed Yale in honor of Elihu Yale.

   Both Harvard and Yale were schools founded by Christians to offer education for ministry. It is amazing how these schools, once founded on Christian principles, have defected from the Christian faith and Biblical authority. Jude's call must be answered in all areas today, when he said "Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3).

   We must earnestly speak out and up for our faith. If we don't, churches, schools, and institutions can lose their focus and faith.