RSS Feed (xml)Discipleship: For example, student misbehavior and disinterest at school are not just interruptions in the educational process-they are revelations of the students heart condition. Spiritual processes of Christian change and growth have been stymied in the students life and must be addressed biblically. Christian Teachers (and parents!) must remember that the goal of most businesses is to please the customer, making him a consumer, the goal of Christian education is to change the consumer, making him a contributor, a servant. Discipleship must be the driving concern
~ Jim Berg Changed Into His Image
What does this look like? I do not know but to start I think it is doing life together, imperfectly and extending grace to each other while pressing for the goal. Serving one another and others outside our comfort zone.
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Those are great points. As a teacher, I knew that the way to get the children more interested in school and/or their own behavior wasn't to put them in another club or invent a new program that costs more money. The problem is in the heart (for all of us), and until that is dealt with in the schools, they're only going to get worse.
Good points Angie, I am not picking on schools or anyone here. This pierced my heart as a mom who teaches her children at home. Am I only worried about checking off the academic boxes or am I discipling these guys, which has to start with a change in *me*!
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