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to integrate our lives around Christian principles and devotion to Jesus Christ.

to cultivate a campus atmosphere that encourages spiritual, moral and intellectual growth.

The purposes of this community covenant are as follows: Acknowledging our dependence on the power and grace of God, the members of the Wheaton College campus community humbly covenant to live according to this ideal. Jesus himself perfectly demonstrated the pattern: love for God, acted out in love for others, in obedience to God's Word. The biblical foundation of Christian community is expressed in Jesus' two great commandments:"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind," and, "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Matt. "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness."

The members of the Wheaton College campus community take these responsibilities seriously. Our mission as an academic community is not merely the transmission of information it is the development of whole persons who will build the church and benefit society worldwide "For Christ and His Kingdom." Along with the privileges and blessings of membership in such a community come responsibilities. The goal of campus life at Wheaton College is to live, work, serve, and worship together as an educational community centered around the Lord Jesus Christ. But if we do agree to it, it should be with the full intention of living with integrity under its provisions. If we do not wish to live under the provisions of this compact, we should not agree to it. In joining this covenant we are, before the Lord, joining in a compact with other members of the Wheaton College community.

At Wheaton we call this social compact our community covenant.įor Wheaton's community covenant to serve its stated purpose, it is crucial that each member of the College family understand it clearly and embrace it sincerely. Or again, while the College is not a religious order, it yet demonstrates some features that are similar to religious orders, communities wherein, for the sake of fulfilling the community's purposes, its members voluntarily enter into a social compact. For example, while the College is not a church, it is yet a community of Christians who seek to live according to biblical standards laid down by Jesus Christ for his body, the church.

These features in combination mean that Wheaton College is a complex Christian community of living, learning, and serving that cannot be reduced to a simple model. Wheaton College is also a largely residential community made up of Christians who, according to the College motto, are dedicated to the service of "Christ and His Kingdom."

But this description does not exhaust the College's understanding of itself. Wheaton College is an institution of higher learning, a rigorous academic community that takes seriously the life of the mind.