God First College Essay

God First” it's the motto of our school and is said to represent everything we believe here at Azusa Pacific University. It is expressed in many aspects of our campus life, from faith integration to D-groups everything about this campus is faith central. The main supporter of the “God First” motto is our variety of chapel programs on campus. Our university requires mandatory chapel attendance. There are seven opportunities every week to attend and, every student is required to attend three. This system of required chapel does more harm than good to the majority of the student body.

There are already more than enough required aspects of faith in our school having chapel as one of them does not benefit the cause of God First. Our school requires eighteen units of Bible classes for general education to graduate (APU). That is six classes which means most semesters students at APU are taking a Bible or theology class simply to graduate on time. These required classes are one way in which APU firmly maintains their God First approach. This university also puts an incredible amount of focus on the faith integration aspect of the education. Every class here has to

The integration is one obvious way to expose the student to the universities beliefs. There are those that will even require that the students agree with the universities faith. This requirement often results in a faith statement as an essay about their relationship with God. Faculty often are required to sign a statement of faith. This kind of relationship is most often associated with seminary schools but can be found in some universities. Azusa Pacific, Cal Lutheran and Concordia all require faith statements from students, but also as personal experience showed, the staff are all required to identify with the religion that the school is affiliated with. In addition to these rules APU requires