Ellerslie Training and the Return of Honor

Honor is chief among the attributes of the school’s eager and motivated student body, reports the leadership team of Ellerslie Training.

WINDSOR, Colorado – September 10, 2014 – One of the distinctive attributes of Ellerslie Training is the leadership’s focus on honor. It’s an old-fashioned word that Ellerslie Training is seeking to make a relevant and significant word once again in the world today.

Ellerslie Training founder, Eric Ludy, a word aficionado, is passionate about the word “honor”.

“It’s just a great word,” Ludy explains.  “The word denotes a certain nobility and yet it’s not in any way a stuffy word.  It’s an upper class word with a humble bearing.  It’s a word that has everything going for it.”

So what does the word mean?  If someone said, “you showcased honor,” what exactly would they mean by that?

The word in the modern dictionary doesn’t say much. The definition is rather bland, speaking of “high esteem” and “privilege”, almost like the use of honor as a noble behavioral attribute is strangely missing.   But, if you go to Ellerslie and ask any of the students walking around on the beautiful Ellerslie campus grounds, they know what the words means.  And they all seem passionate about it.

“It’s a man being a true man!” says one young man.

“It’s behaving in such a way that people see Christ in and through your actions,” says a young woman.

Eric Ludy, a leading voice in Christianity for nearly two decades, is known for his dynamic communication style and for the unique way he passes on ideas to his audience.  He does the same for his students at Ellerslie Training.  He loves to paint pictures for his students to ponder.  To communicate the idea of honor, Ludy takes all of his students on an imaginary tour of the Holy of Holies in Heaven.  He points out the way that everyone behaves in the presence of God.  “Do you see the nobility of their manner?” asks Ludy.  “Do you see the utter respect and the deep humility in their every action?”

Ludy refers to this “Holy of Holies behavior” as “honor”, saying “the way the cherubim and seraphim behave in heaven is precisely how we are supposed to behave down here.”  And it certainly does make sense, seeing as how the Apostle Paul clearly says that our bodies are the temple of the Living God.  Ludy says it simply, “As Christians, we are a mobile Holy of Holies.”

According to Ellerslie Training’s official definition, “honor” is the way God intended us to live. It’s a type of behavior marked by selflessness, love, kindness, mercy, nobility, respect, and the highest decorum.

For the leaders of Ellerslie Training, the idea of honor starts in the basics of manhood and femininity. It’s men behaving as men and women behaving as women. And as a result, the men at Ellerslie Training really are true gentlemen. They are protectors, not predators, toward the ladies on campus. It’s an old-fashioned environment at Ellerslie Training, where the men hold the doors for the women while abiding by the principle of “ladies first.”

This commitment to honor has a major impact on the overall atmosphere of the Ellerslie Training. When everyone lives by a single rule – “Others are more important than me” –  it sets the stage for a beautiful, humble, unique, and refreshing environment.

Should we on the outside call this behavior strange, bizarre, and behind-the-times?  Maybe. For down here on earth, earthy behavior is quite normal.  But, that’s what is so intriguing about Ellerslie Training.  It’s not training people to act like everyday earth-dwellers, but rather, it’s training them act like men and women caught up in the reverie of heavenly love, kindness, purity, and respect. It’s training them to showcase the behavior of heaven in a world where such a sighting is almost as rare as a view of the Lochness monster.

Some may argue that the modernization of society and the shedding of such archaic contrivances as honor and moral propriety are humankind’s hope to a brighter future.

If so, Ellerslie Training is probably not for you. Ellerslie, politically correct or not, is headed in the opposite direction than post-modernity is taking us.  They are going back to something ancient for their answers, something fixed.  Political correctness means little to them, but whatever the Bible says gets them very excited.  And they are quite passionate about this stuff. For at Ellerslie they are claiming that for the world to get back on track, it better get back to heavenly thinking and heavenly living.  As Ludy says, “the brighter future is not found in us seeking our own right and wrong, but in us turning to Jesus Christ and saying, ‘So what did You intend for humanity?  I really want to know!’”

Ellerslie Training is the flagship operation of Ellerslie Mission Society.  Located in beautiful Windsor, Colorado, Ellerslie Training offers three nine-weeks training programs per year.