We are a place of faith and value, for only then do we deserve the strong support we receive from those who support the school. In the School of Theology faculty and students must be provided with enough freedom to be functional, he said. With real, authentic Christian freedom, it makes us free to create and free to change. If there is no freedom, creativity is stifled. A school can do little more than echo voices of the past and serve as an indoctrination center rather than a center of Christian freedom and learning.
Authentic freedom creates ability to change.
Freedom releases us from the binding power of old ideas and empowers us to explore new perspectives. Such freedom also has power to deliver one from a rigid and unchangeable attitude. Any organization, any individual, committed to achieving high quality, inevitably assumes the concomitant reality of pervasive risks. Honeycutt concluded by comparing the needs of the School of Theology to the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy, the cowardly lion, the tin man and the scarecrow each had different, but essential needs.