Test 1

What are the 2 Bible passages for the foundational Biblical principle of Christian education?

Proverbs 1:7

Proverbs 9:10

The foundational biblical principle of Christian education:

• The fear of the Lord

• The ramifications

Infi

The fear of the Lord

What three things are needed to have correct foundation of education

1. There must be a recognition that there is a God

2. There must be a knowledge of who the true God is

3. There must be a proper attitude toward this God

Ramifications

• All education that does not begin with a right view of God is what kind of education?

• Can a school that teaches the correct information- but has a different view of God, be considered good education?

Faulty education

No

(This is because Good Biblical education is centered around God and the truths of God. If you leave God out of the picture- you will have a worldly view instead of a Biblical view)

The foundational need for Christian education today:

What are the four reasons why we need a Christian education today?

1. Because of a secular society

2. Because of a Christianity that is often biblically illiterate

3. Because of a secularized Christianity

4. Because of a majority of children that are growing up without the biblical standard of Truth

Because of a secular society:

• What word means: denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis

• This society seeks to _ this world _ God (evolution)

• This society seeks to live life without _ of God

• This society is actively _ children through formal and informal _ education

Secular

Understand, without

Thinking

Indoctrinating, secular

Because of a Christianity that is often biblically illiterate:

• (Article- are we more biblically illiterate than ever by Joe Holland)

  • Ligonier found that US adults increasingly view the Bible as _ _ true

  • 53% of Americans agree that the Bible contains helpful accounts of ancient _ but is not literally true

  • There is a 12% increase and the number of adults who do not believe in the _ of the Bible

  • Among us, evangelicals- 26% agreed that the Bible was closer to being a helpful account of ancient myths than true _

  • 56% of evangelicals agree that God accepts the worship of all religions- including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

  • . Is a 13% increase of the number of evangelicals who believe Jesus was a great _ but he was not _

  • Only one in five Americans know that _ not _ traditionally teaches at salvation comes through faith alone

  • They also found that not only are Americans- and professed evangelicals- reading their Bibles less-but they are also losing a _ understanding of the Christian _ taught in the Bible

• What verse comes to mind that relates to this finding. (Because they forgot the law of God- he will also forget their children)

Not literally

Myths

Veracity (truthfulness)

History

Teacher, God

protestanism, Catholicism

comprehensive, faith

Hosea 4:6

Because a secularized Christianity:

• T or F- American Christians have become secularized by only leaving the churches

False

Because a secularized Christianity:

• American Christians have become secularized also by reshaping their _, _, and _

• They do this to align more with _ norms than _ theology

What is the reference for- “ I pray not that thou should just take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil…”

Beliefs, practices, identities

Cultural, traditional

John 17:15-17

Because of a majority of children that are growing up without the biblical standards of Truth

• (Article: Most us kids ages 8 to 12 lack biblical cornerstones)

  • America's children are in the process of adopting _ as their predominant worldview

  • Only 2% of the parents have a _ worldview- and 96% are _

  • This mindset and lifestyle is model daily for their children and has become the default positioning for the _ of Christian adults, adolescence, and children

  • _: is the summary name for a disparate, irreconcilable collection of beliefs and behaviors that define people's lives

  • It is a cut and paste approach to making sense of, and responding to life

  • Rather than developing an internally consistent and philosophically coherent perspective on life- Americans embrace points of view or actions that feel _ or seem most _ or _

  • At what age do children begin to form their worldview?

  • By what age is their worldview almost entirely formed?

Syncretism

Biblical, syncretists

Majority

Syncretism

Comfortable, convenient, popular

15 to 18 months

13 years

The foundational difference in Christian education:

1. The difference between Christian education versus secular education summarized

• Worldview:

  • Christian: _ centered; all truth is seen through _

  • Secular: _ centered; Truth is often _ or _

• Purpose of learning:

  • Christian: to _ God and fulfill Divine _

  • Secular: to gain _, _, and personal _

• Moral framework:

  • Christian: based on biblical _

  • Secular: based on _ norms and _ ethics

• Teaching method

  • Christian: _ led; aiming to _ and _

  • Secular: _, analytical, aiming to _ and _

• Identity formation:

  • Christian: rooted in being a…….

  • Secular: rooted in _ and _

• Ultimate goal:

  • Christian: spiritual _ and christ-like _

  • Secular: _ readiness and social _

God, scripture

Human, relative, empirical

Glorify, purpose

Knowledge, skills, success

Absolutes

Societal, personal

Spirit, edify, transform

Rational, inform, develop

Child of God

Self-discovery, individualism

Maturity, character

Career, integration

The difference between Christian education versus secular education highlighted:

1. Christian education highlights:

• Integrates, _ and learning through a Biblical _

• Emphasizes spiritual _, _ development, and _

• Teachers act as spiritual _ and _ _

• Curriculum includes _ study, _, and _

• Identity and purpose are rooted in _ design

• Moral instruction is based on _

• Aims to prepare students for both _ success and _ _

Faith, worldview

Growth, character, discipleship

Mentors, role models

Bible, prayer, worship

God’s

Scripture

Academic, faithful living

The difference between Christian education versus secular education highlighted:

2. Secular education highlights

• Focuses on _ achievement and _ development

• Encourages _ thinking, _, and _ growth

• Teachers serve as _ of knowledge and _

• Curriculum is based on _, _, and _ perspectives

• Identity formation is centered on _ and _

• Moral instruction is shaped by societal _ and _

• Aims to prepare students for _ _ and _ _

Academic, skill

Critical, innovation, personal

Facilitators, inquiry

Scientific, historical, cultural

Self-Discovery, autonomy

Norms, ethic

Career readiness, Civic engagement

Video Pt 1:

• To fully love your neighbor and be a great citizen, you need to know _ AND The character traits of _

• True or false Christianity and education should be separate

• When you are withholding God's truth from a child you are causing them to _

• What word means to “ trip up” cause to stumble, or entice to sin

• True or false: there is no such thing as a neutral education

• All education is a form of _ or _

Christ, christ-likeness

False

Sin

Offend

True

Indoctrination, point of view

Video Pt 1

• What is the purpose of education?

  • _ building

  • Christian education: _ character _ (for example- worldview, values)

• Dr. McIntyre is not sure by what he meant by “ you don't have to tell them what's right and wrong. You just have to encourage them to choose what's right.

  • You _ need to teach right and wrong from the Bible and/or a _ perspective

  • And encourage them to choose _

• True or false: the scientific method is a threat to Christianity

Character

Christian, forming

Do, biblical

Right

False

• the scientific method is not a threat to Christianity

  • Encourage it! True observation _ a Biblical worldview

  • Note: _ will always be necessary- for everyone (evolutions and believers alike)

Confirms

Faith

• We should be training children in _

  • Knowledge equals _

  • Wisdom equals what to _ do with those _ to make sound _ and effective _

  • True or false? You can have knowledge without wisdom

Facts

Rightly, facts, judgments, decisions

True

• Depending upon an individual child's aptitude, they can only gain so much _

• However, they can have great _

• Christian education is more than the classroom and Sunday school. It is ……….

Knowledge

Wisdom

The whole of life

• According to the Bible, you cannot separate the _ from the education.

• This brings into question whether a Christian parent should be signing up for a contract to be _ _ with _ education

Parent

Unequally yoked, godless

• Much of modern education is quite _

• It's about personal _, _ objectives, and the pursuit of _

• The Christian model of education should seek to instill the _ of Christ

  • _, service, and _ to God's will

Selfish

Ambition, career, money

Example

Humility, obedience

(video part 2)

• How are Christian values integrated into the various subjects?

  • You must hold the two _

  • Teach from the perspective of the _ worldview

Together

Biblical

• In Christian schools there can be a difference between a school with a Christian _ and a school with a Christian education

• Christian _: is a school that embodies a broad set of Christian _- like _ and _

• Christian education: is a more comprehensive integration of Christian _ and _ into the _ itself

  • It often has the goal of a _ Christ-centered view of ALL _

Ethos

Ethos, values, kindness, community

Beliefs, teachings, curriculum

Fully, subjects

• There is a _ when the home has biblical values, but the student is attending a Christian school that uses curriculum teaching and unbiblical worldview

• When you take God out of education, you end up with what kind of education?

Contradiction

A Godless education

• Children can be salt and light when they have been _ to be salt and light

• _ _ helps prepare them to be salt and light

• Consider the wisdom of putting a child into secular education before they have been prepared to be salt and light

Prepared

Christian education

What should not be the excuse to keep your children from having a Christian education?

(There are many options today: like homeschooling)

Finances

• The evidence shows that children receiving a Christian education are NOT hindered from living in and facing the _ _

Real world

(Video part 3)

• Christian education is a _ in leading your children to Faith in Jesus Christ

• _ weather self-discipline or imposed discipline, is part of the educational process

  • There must be _

Method

Discipline

Accountability

• Parents need to take responsibility for their children's _

• Parents need to decide what their _ are

• Secular education has led to a crisis of human _ and rampant _

  • An extreme _

Education

Priorities

Identity, individualism

Self-focus

• There is a determined plan to _ _ the Christian framework of society

• Rebelling against God has been around a long time- but now it's been _

• There is an element of _ _ of children

Take out

Institutionalized

State Control

• The Christian faith does not _

• _ does not work for true Christianity and Christian education

• Christianity is _

• Note: we are _ the world but not _ the world

Mix

Syncretism

Exclusive (there is only one way)

In, of

Lesson 2

Historical foundations of Christian education:

Christian education can be viewed as an effort to encourage people to gain an _ _ _ _

Authentic relation with God

1. Teaching and learning in the Old and New Testaments

A. Jewish education before the exile:

• Throughout the early history of Israel who was the chief educational institution of society?

• What were the two ways children learned through?

• What 2 things were Fathers to teach their children?

The family

Informal participation in family life

Parental example

God's law

A trade to earn a living

A. Jewish education before the exile: continued

• True or false- there were formal schools for the children to attend

• As the parents grew in their knowledge of God's law, they were to teach it to their children and reinforce it through what two things?

• Who served as priests and as teachers instructing the people in the observance of God's laws?

• The various feasts and festivals that God had a decreed helped the people remember what God had done in the past and provoked what in their children so that they would ask questions and be instructed by their parents?

False

Their own example

Conversation

Levites

Curiosity

B. Jewish education after the exile

• Separated from their Homeland, the people of Israel came to understand the importance of _ _, and their need to know and obey it

• Another name for God's law is _ _

• Following the exile, put the scriptures be read and explain to the people?

• These were established in every village in _

God's law

The Torah

Synagogues

Palestine

B. Jewish education after the exile continued

• On the Sabbath, people would gather for times of instruction at the _

• Time of instructions was geared for which people?

• After getting instruction this group was in turn expected to instruct _ _ _

• With the importance attached to knowing and understanding God's word- what was highly valued?

• Who was held in highest esteem in the Jewish culture?

• What is another name of this person?

• Education was viewed as a _

• It was viewed this way because it allowed one to know God better and understand how to build an obedience to him

Synagogue

Adults

Their own children

Education

Teacher

Rabbi

Privilege

C. Teaching and learning in the NT

• Who is the master teacher?

• There are 12 descriptions as to how he is this master teacher.

  • 1. He taught with _ _

  • 2. He knew his _ _

  • 3. He used powerful _ _

  • 4. He _ what he taught

  • 5. He was _ & _

  • 6. He taught many people on whom the teachers of his day would not have wasted their time

  • 7. He taught _ he _

  • 8. He was culturally _ yet spiritually _

  • 9. He balanced _ & _

  • 10. He _ & _

  • 11. He was _ _

  • 12. His teaching was _

Jesus

Divine authority

Audience deeply

Teaching tools

Modeled

Relational, personal

Wherever, went

Relevant, grounding

Grace, truth

Challenged, transformed

Spirit-led

Eternal

1. He taught with Divine authority:

• He taught us one with authority unlike the _

• He spoke with first-hand _, not relying on other teachers

2. He knew his audience deeply:

• He knew what was in each person

• He tailored his messages to the _ and _ of his listeners

3. He used powerful teaching tools:

• _ is everyday stories with spiritual truth

• _ was used to provoke thought

• _ _ was actions- like washing feet

Scrunch

Authority

Hearts common needs

Parables

Questions

Visual lessons

4. He modeled what he taught:

• He lived out his teachings

• What was his curriculum?

5. He was relational and personal

• What example of a specific person he encountered?

• He valued individuals and taught through _ connection

6. He taught many people on whom the teachers of his day would not have wasted their time

• What are the three groups of people?

His life

The Samaritan woman

Personal

Women, gentiles, sinners

7. He taught wherever he went

• He taught in synagogues, Holmes, by the Sea, on hillsides, wherever the people were

8. He was culturally relevant yet spiritually grounded

• He used familiar images to explain eternal truths- like _, _, _

• He spoke in the language and idioms of his time making his teaching accessible

9. He balanced Grace and Truth

• Full of grace and truth

• With the adulterous woman- he offered Grace and called for _

Sheep, seeds, bread

Change

10. He challenged and transformed

• Called for _ obedience

• His teachings disrupted norms and led to _

11. He was Spirit Led

• Full of the Holy Spirit

• His teaching was empowered by the _

12. His teaching was eternal

• His words will never pass away

• His teachings continue to shape lives and history

Radical

Transformation

Holy Spirit

Note; Jesus taught for not just for

He meant to _ lives not just convey _

Transform, information

Change, facts

2. Christ's disciples

A. Began to live out the _ _

B. The apostles gave themselves to the task of _

C. The task of teaching was so important that it became part of the criteria and the selection of church _

Great commission

Teaching

Leaders

Began to live out the Great commission:

• Preaching and teaching concerning _ _ &_

• Exhorting people to place their faith in Christ and receive eternal life

The apostles gave themselves to the task of teaching those who responded to the gospel

• This helped the church to grow and become strong

• Is equipped them to stand against the _ that soon came

The task of teaching was so important that it became part of the criteria and the selection of church _

Christ's death, Resurrection

Persecution

Leaders