What is a Successful Year?

Excerpt from Logic School & Rhetoric School Orientation Address

“What does it mean to have a successful year at Regents?

I believe that if in May you find yourself identifying your own tendencies towards either peace faking or peace breaking and you repent of them and you choose to live as a peace maker even though it’s difficult, you will have had a successful year.
 
I believe that if you focus not so much on external goals but on what good things you are willing to commit to and you’re faithful to those things, you will have experienced a successful year.

I believe that if you find yourself having developed better study habits and having become more effective in your use of time, you will have experienced a successful year.

I believe that if you find yourself slow to speak and quick to hear and slower to anger and quicker to forgive, you will have experienced a successful year.

I believe that if you will have grown to appreciate that each and every one of your subjects is a vehicle by which you might see the glory of God and your desire to learn is stirred because you want to love Him better through that study, you will have had a successful year.

I believe that if you will have learned how to live with respect, strength, and responsibility, faithfully and consistently, you will have had a successful year.

I believe that if you will have learned to think about all aspects of your life from a Biblical worldview, you will have experience a successful year.

I believe that if you will have been grounded to know, love and practice those things which are true, good and beautiful, you will have had a successful year.

I believe if you respond to the challenge to live purposefully and intelligently as a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, you will have had a successful year.

And lastly, I believe that if you are seeking the benefit of others and the glory of God above your own interests, then you will have had a successful year.

In other words, if you grow up in the identity of what it means to be a regent of God, you will have had a successful year. So that is the image, the picture I want to cast for you all before the first day of school. It will not be the last time I talk about these things because as humans we are prone to forget. But I just want you to know that success is often not how man defines it, in grades and accolades and awards. Those aren’t bad things. But in our response and the posture of our heart to love the right things in the right way. That’s what we desire for all of you to learn at Regents School. That is why we’re here."

-Christopher Webb, Logic & Rhetoric School Principal