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Do you feel you understand a biblical worldview of redemption? Why is it important for you to do so?
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Yes. We cannot plan instruction based on a biblical worldview of redemption if we don’t understand that essential doctrine ourselves.
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Yes. We need to understand that we’re all sinners and have fallen. We need to treat our students as we God treats us.
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I do feel I understand a biblical worldview of redemption. The Bible tells us “ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…” If we all sin, then we are in need of redemption by one who has already paid the price for every sin I would ever commit. He did that all in exchange for a personal relationship with him, His original purpose in creation – communion and relationship. If Jesus can do that for me, I should be able to do that for my students. Being forgiven and redeemed doesn’t mean we will never make a mistake, it just reminds us of the whole reason we needed a savior in the first place and allows us to grow in our relationship with God. When we offer our students love, mercy, grace and forgiveness, we become Jesus with skin on.
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Yes. It is important because we need to understand where we were in order to appreciate our redemption.
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I believe I do and am so thankful for such an understanding. The reason the understanding of redemption is important, is because it should color all of our actions, words, behaviors, etc. The fact that Christ died for me, knowing I’d continued to mess up even after salvation, is overwhelming (in a good way, of course) and should spur me on to show that same kind of love and mercy to my students, not because they deserve it, but because Christ did the same for a worm such as I. We may be the only Bible some of these kids will ever “read.” Our classroom may be the only place they’ve ever received genuine love and mercy, even in a Christian school! Let our words and actions be a beacon pointing back to Christ’s sacrificial love for them.