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The Importance of Christian Education
WHAT IS CHRISTIAN EDUCATION?
Christian education is not merely religious instruction in the midst of otherwise secular subjects. It is not simply having Bible classes, student and teacher prayer, or teachers who are Christian. It is not merely freedom from evil influences or better academic results that constitute Christian education.
Education in and of itself will do nothing to change the heart of a child or society in general. It is out of the heart that the wickedness of man flows and only God changes hearts. In contrast to popular trends, we must base Christian education on the conviction that everything that is taught, all classes, including reading, writing and arithmetic be taught from an inherently theistic, or God-centered, perspective.
A professor at Westminster Theological Seminary, Cornelius Van Til wrote:
"The final apologetic (defense) for Christian education must show that Christian education is involved . . . in creation, that creation is involved in the idea of God and that without God, man's life and experience would be entirely meaningless."
Dr. Van Til is saying that there can be no consistent education apart from Christian education. Any system, program, method or plan that does not acknowledge God and His intimate, active and personal role in the world today does not correspond to the "real world." Since God is active in our world, any system of thought that does not account for His activity is fundamentally and irreparably flawed.
The Apostle Paul says: "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world, rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ who is the head over every power and authority." (Colossians 2:8-10)
Everywhere throughout the Bible we find verses clearly telling us that a proper world-view shows us that God, the Creator, always was, is, and will be. He alone is self-sufficient and His thoughts alone are independent. Colossians 2:10 tells us that Christ is the head and He alone has authority. We, on the other hand, were created and are dependent upon God. He is infinite and we are finite. God's thoughts are His own and we were made to "think God's thoughts after Him."
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Formulation of a comprehensive Christian philosophy of education, be it an
individual or a school philosophy, is no easy task. Inherent in the development
of such a philosophy is a proper view of God and truth. Chuck Colson, in his book,
Dance with Deception, referred to such a view a Christian world view. Colson stated,
"Christianity must be a world-view; a view of the entire world, an intellectual grid
through which we can interpret everything we see or read or do. God created the world,
and everything in the world relates in some way to Him." There is a universal belief
among Christian educators that a proper understanding and inculcation of a Christian
world view is critically important if an individual or institutional philosophy is really
truly Christian.
The underlying reason why a Christian world view is so important is that such a
view serves as a foundation upon which a philosophy of education is built. The
foundation is tenuous, at best, if a secular view invades and dominates an
individual's thoughts and, consequently, his actions. Author Harry Blamires
warned of the secularization of a Christian's mind when he wrote the following in
The Christian Mind:
The mind of modem man has been secularized. It has been deprived of any
orientation toward the supernatural. As a thinking being, the modem
Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion—its
morality, its worship, its spiritual culture; but he rejects the religious view of
life, which sets all earthly issues within the context of the eternal, the view
which relates all human problems—social, political, cultural—to the doctrinal
foundations of the Christian Faith.
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Called also simply THE COMMANDMENTS, TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, or THE DECALOGUE (Gr. deka, ten, and logos, a word), the Ten Words of Sayings, the latter name generally applied by the Greek Fathers.
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Despite the clear evidence that the human condition has not improved throughout the millennia, our current secular educational philosophy continues running full-steam ahead with a foundation based on the false assumption that our children can live independent of God.
The Bible is true. God made the universe as He claims, and in Christ, we are made complete. He has the authority described by Paul and is head over all, therefore, how can we hope to begin the study of science or math, much less plumb its depths, without first considering God? Colossians 1:16-17 says that Christ is before all things and in Him all things hold together. God alone is the source of unity and coherence in the universe.
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