I highly recommend the school to anyone who is int...

I highly recommend the school to anyone who is interested in knowing their Bible better while keeping things in proper context and being challenged to live out what God's word recommends and to also being challenged to avoid what it condemns and to temper what it tempers. Since I graduated in 1984 some might question any recommendation I might make as obsolete or irrelavent. But I would like to add some perspective, especially after reading the other reviews. In the ideal world, where everyone would be perfect, there would be no need for a school like Multnomah because all parents would be teaching and living a Godly example at home and the local church would have the perfect leadership team, lessons, sermons and life counseling plan and everyone of us would be personally devoted to the study of God's word and prayer with wholehearted willful self disiplined obedience. It is a world I gladly strive toward, but it is not the world we live in, because none of us is perfect and all of us have a sin nature. Also, the atitudes and motivations that we bring to any endevor will have much to do with what we will get out of anything. I was a 25 miles off campus married student of no exceptional academic abilities, so you know there were big challenges in my experience at Multnomah. And I was involved in a church where the Bible was highly valued and taught verse by verse by Godly people so I was prety well grounded in God's word. But because Multnomah is a full time focused learning enviironment, what I learned was some things that brought more breadth and depth of understanding and confidence in God's word that can't be covered thouroughly on Sunday morning to a very broad range of maturity and academic ability. Multnomah can greatlly help in developing knowledge, cohesive thinking and the ability to defend the faith, learning original languages, translaters challenges, Hebrew poetry, self disipline and accountability with timely purpose while developing from scripture your own personal systematic theology. But you have to provide the right heart and obedince. Is it expensive? Yes. But ignorance and foolishness are much more expensive and can hurt others and the cause of Christ. And even if you learned nothing from Multnomah, you will have had an opportunity to be a Godly example, pray for, help and encourage others :-) And if you truly know and live a lot, then Biblically you should be a teacher by now not just a critic. Now go, grow, be intimate witth God, pray for and be a blessing to others. Search the scriptures daily to see whether these things be true. Speak the truth in love. Then there will be much to rejoice about both now and forever!!
In Chridt's love and service,
Bob