Graduation Is Not the Goal: It Is the Commissioning

 

Each spring, Christian schools and universities step into graduation season. Auditoriums fill. Families celebrate. Diplomas are handed out. Photos are taken. And rightly so, since graduation is a meaningful milestone. But for educators, it should also be a meaningful checkpoint. Graduation is not just a celebration of what students have completed. It is one of the clearest opportunities we have to ask a deeper question: What have we actually prepared them for?