04/18/2022 – Christian worldview and education: “Educating for Eternity”
Link – 5 minute presentation – below!:
The final question: What will you do in your classroom? We all have a classroom. We are called as messengers to seek out the lost. And in some cases, we can be transformed by God’s grace as in a caterpillar to a butterfly, even if we are just starting in our old age. (see Romans 12:2 – The word “transformed” is “metamorphoo” in the Greek. And this verse is a theme for this post)
How should we educate our children? I submit to you Deuteronomy 6: 6:9, positioned as it is just behind what Jesus identified to the rich young ruler as the greatest of all commandments.
For our children: I recall a presentation by Douglas Wilson nearly two decades ago. Douglas Wilson was one of the founders of a Christian worldview school “Logos” in small town Moscow, Idaho. That was a key early catalyst for a rebuilding of the walls, a God honoring Christian worldview education structure. Douglas asked back then: Would we turn over our vacation bible school summer programs to the prophets of baal? They wouldn’t take advantage of us, would they? Well, they would and they did over the span of my 65 years. Apparently, they were more dedicated to their mission than we were to ours. The result is our pagan gulag public education system in this country. And the results show up in our younger generation and in the pitiful state that our country and the world is presently in.
The remnant church will never be defeated though, and by God’s grace, He has raised up a young adult generation that is leaps above my own generation in terms of faithfulness to God, in spite of facing roadblocks my generation never faced. (Catch me sometime, and I will support my premise with observations over the years. ) But regardless, we must fight evil until Jesus returns. Please check out this short power packed five minute or so presentation.
Notice – Teaching children how to think as opposed to what I know. With the later, knowledge is limited to what I know, or at least what I think I know. With the former, knowledge is an endless growth process. And the trivium methodology structure that Dorothy Sayer outlined in “The Lost Tools of Learning” teaches to children in the appropriate stage of development, how God designs us. There is plenty of evidence. Did you know most of our founding father’s in this country were Christian worldview – trivium methodology educated?