Colossians 1.17 - The Uni in your Uni

Colossians 1.17 - The Uni in your Uni

The founders of the first Universities believed there was one clear Truth they could stand upon to study all of life. Not all of them were ‘born again evangelicals’ but they held the widely accepted view that the Bible was the Word of God and that Jesus was the Son of God. From that ‘Unity’ of truth in God they examined their ‘diverse’ world, i.e. “University.” Their Latin mottos (such as: “Truth,” “All things unite in Christ,” “In your light we see light,” and “The Lord is my Light”) show that for them Jesus was the ‘Uni’ in their Universities. Today, with those noble Latin mottos largely unintelligible, Christian Unions are driven off some of those very campuses! Yet, long after man’s halls of academia have fallen, God’s truth will stand; “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together” (Colossians 1.17).