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15 October, 2007

Christian Schooling in the Reformed Tradition. 15 October, 2007. Our Commitment.

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15 October, 2007

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  1. Christian Schooling in the Reformed Tradition 15 October, 2007

  2. Our Commitment In the light of the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the authority of God's Word, we will educate each unique student in cooperation with the Christian community so that he or she is equipped and inspired to make a difference for Jesus Christ in the world.

  3. Things I would like to say regarding • A Living Curriculum • Christian Schooling and its place in Christian Education • What Christian Schools are Not! • Teaching Students to Hate Well

  4. You are a Role Model • INFORMING students to prepare them for service • We provide students with models, opportunities, skills and information necessary to become caretakers of God's creation and healing agents in a broken society. • Teachers and Staff – “The Living Curriculum” • “Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.” (Attributed to St. Francis of Assisi)

  5. We will Educate Christian Education • Christian Education • Church, Devotions (personal and corporate), Sunday School, Bible Study, Christian Schooling, Christina Parenting … • Christian Schooling • Is a “part” of the umbrella of Christian Education • We must do our “part” – if we fail to, who will provide the schooling? • Constantly weighing our role, along side the church and the home, guarding • Activities • Bible Studies • Becoming the parent

  6. Always Open to that Glorious Moment “I honor the teacher who, when she has reason to suppose that a pupil or student is not Christian, drops whatever she is doing, her arithmetic, or geography, or history lesson, to press the Gospel message upon him. That teacher has her values in the right order. She puts first things first. So much is absolutely true. But we ought not to go on to infer from this that a Christian school is a Christian school because it offers wonderful opportunities for church or missionary work. It is a precious by-product.” Zylstra

  7. How does our ‘schooling’ point students to Jesus? • Enthusiasm for what we do • Our personal role model • The “Living Curriculum” • Our Biblically integrated content • What the institution stands for • Those opportunities seized

  8. What Christian School are Not! • Not filled with perfect children! • I quiver when I hear • “How can kids from a Christian School act that way?” • I am ashamed that I have said it myself • Romans 3:23 • for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

  9. The Christian School Difference “Let’s not mistake the Christian school for anything other than a school. It’s not an incubator from the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil. The Christian school is also not a penal institution for the incarceration for wayward sons and daughters from Christian homes. As long as there are human beings involved, every Christian school will have its share of human iniquity. D. Bruce Lockerbie

  10. The Christian School Difference The difference is that in such a school, girls and boys will learn the power of redemption, the cleansing of forgiveness, the strength of prayer, the promise of Scripture. The Christian school is a training ground, a place of elementary and secondary instruction in the rudiments of loving God with all the mind, strength, soul, and heart.” • D. Bruce Lockerbie

  11. The Christian School Difference • We need to consider changing our language • Middle School Principal sending students off on a field trip • Christian kids don’t act that way • Let’s go before our Lord in prayer • Others? • Perhaps we should say – Will all of those who claim Jesus Christ as Lord, bow with me in prayer and if you don’t, please sit respectfully (grade 7-12)

  12. Teaching students to Hate Well! • Dr. Henry Cloud • Not Subjective hate ! • It’s toxic • “A pool of feelings and attitudes that resides in our soul, waiting for expression. It is not directed at anything specific or caused on any given day by an specific object. It is already there, sort of like an infection of the soul”

  13. Teaching students to Hate Well! • Objective Hate • On the contrary, objective hate can be described as anger with a purpose. Objective hate protects by standing in opposition to dishonesty, exploitation, or deceit. Objective hate may spark entrepreneurship • Spark new business and ideas • Name 5 things you would like your students to hate objectively

  14. TRANSFORMING students to impact contemporary society for Christ • We prepare students to answer Christ's call to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world, permeating all of society, pointing to Jesus, righting injustice, and working for Biblical alternatives in every part of life. • Do we? • Do we personally want this?

  15. In Summary • A Living Curriculum • Christian Schooling and its place in Christian Education • What Christian Schools are Not! • Teaching Students to Hate Well

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