All students will develop a digital portfolio over the course of their enrollment at Evergreen. This portfolio will contain the student's written responses to twenty essential questions that every Christian should be able to answer. Students are provided five essential questions at the start of each school year, with each grade level focusing on the same five questions. These questions are multi-disciplinary, being addressed across the grade-level curriculum, and are designed to help the student articulate the Christian worldview and build Christian scholarship.
Ninth graders will ask how we can trust that the Bible is reliable, tenth grade students will explore the nature of beauty, eleventh graders will wrestle with the relativity of moral values, and seniors will reflect on whether salvation is exclusively found in Christ. The portfolio is designed as an aid in the development of the Senior Capstone Project.
Students have been presented five essential questions for the year. Parents are encouraged to engage in discussion with their students at home as they learn to articulate and own their answers.
Question 1: What is a worldview and why is it important?
Question 2: How is knowledge of God possible?
Question 3: Can I trust the Bible?
Question 4: Is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era?
Question 5: Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
We hope you are encouraged and blessed by the student answers below:
Gabe: "The Christian Worldview shapes our perception of the world around the foundational truths of the Bible. If we are to truly act as Christians, every decision we make should be through the Biblcial lens."
Ben: "The knowledge of God is possible because it is his will to be known by his creation, and he made us able to know him."
Siera: "One could ask us why a creator would put in us a desire to know him and then not provide the knowledge. The answer, of course, would be that a loving and gracious God would find a way for man to know and understand him."
Clara: "God's love is like the stars. The stars are always there, even when it is hard to see them, they are there. Even when it feels like the world around us is crumbling, the stars are there. They are burning fiercely, and they will not all go out, just like God's love for us."
Andrew: "Considering all the evidence for the Bible, it takes more faith not to trust the Bible than it does to believe it."