It is purely to enrich a person’s life with how to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. It teaches us how to take those elements and deal with them out in the world and how to make responsible decisions when faced with those elements. It also provides us with intellectual and practical skills like, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills. These are used in everyday life. Everyday at our jobs we need to communicate with our co-workers as well as analyze and problem-solve many situations or problems we are faced with.
Liberal arts education also gives us a better view of the world around us as well as our specific area of interest. In society this type of education helps us to gain social responsibility. Being a Christian we want to do as God says and help others as He has helped us. So now we need to find the definite purpose of Christian liberal arts to our education. We are still learning all those aspects of liberal arts education, but as God would want us to deal with those elements. For a Christian liberal arts education, we need to not only focus on how what we are doing is affecting us, but also how is it contributing to the world around us so that we may follow the path God has set for us. As Homes states, “Unless we understand the thought- and value-patterns of our day, as well as those of biblical revelation and the Christian community, and unless we speak fluently the language of our contemporaries, we tragically limit our effectiveness.” To be effective we need to act and think as