PEOPLE LIKE US, DO SCHOOL LIKE THIS…
“… On the cross Christ wins through losing, triumphs through defeat, achieves power through weakness… the crucified Jesus turns the values of the world upside down…”
Pastor Tim Keller
READ LAST YEAR’S EASTER MESSAGE: “We’re An Easter School”
People like us, teach the cross to our kids.
To people who lived before Christ, teaching the cross would have been madness. It’s easy today to miss the significance of this symbol. But no symbol in all of human history has been so revolutionary. For Christians, and non-Christians alike, it changed everything. No value, idea or institution in our culture is untouched by the cross, whether people want to acknowledge it or not.
While the cross may not be obviously visible in other schools, at LCS, we are reminded at Easter just how revolutionary the cross truly is.
Historian Tom Holland points out in his engaging history of Christianity, Dominion, that our deepest values—compassion, equality, justice, human dignity—weren’t invented by philosophers or political revolutions, but by a crucified Christ. The cross is a symbol that remade the world.
This is why people like us, do school like this. It’s why at Langley Christian School, we teach and celebrate the cross.
The message of our broader culture ignores the uncomfortable truth of the cross and celebrates autonomy: “you do you” – our culture teaches us to find ourself in our preferred comforts, our economic worth, our chosen identity or our individualism. The result is an epidemic of unprecedented anxiety, confusion, loneliness and purposeless. Connection and community can restore us but require a sense of identity and purpose rooted in something richer and more enduring: a common unity shaped by sacrifice for others, humility, generosity, and love – captured in one powerful symbol: Christ crucified on the cross.
Pastor Mark Clark reminds us that the Christian story has always championed the dignity and worth of every individual—not by celebrating our independence, but by recognizing our dependence on God and each other. We shape one another by the example of our faith, generosity, service and commitment to building a community like LCS that none of us could build on our own. That is why schools shaped by a vision of the cross have such an outsized impact.
At Langley Christian, the cross and the story of Christ crucified and risen again, continue to shape everything we do. The cross is at the centre of who we are. It shapes our language, our behaviours, and our beliefs. Our curriculum is designed so that students may Know God. Love Others, Live Purposefully, always in light of the cross. While the culture calls us to elevate ourselves by looking inward, the cross calls us to humility, connection, purpose, and peace by looking upward.
We are a cross-shaped school living in a cross-shaped story.
This Easter, let’s celebrate that we are all part of a bigger story—one that spans generations of faithful families, students, staff and alumni striving for life-giving impact in our community through Christ’s love. People like us do school like this – finding purpose and joy in a cross-shaped story that connects us deeply and meaningfully to each other.
Let’s continue teaching the cross today, tomorrow, and together.
May Christ’s abundant mercy and grace bless you this Easter.
