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How does your understanding of mankind’s fallen nature impact your work in the classroom?
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It allows me to not expect perfection, but growth and tenacity. It helps me recognize the need to help students learn from their mistakes and guide them toward Jesus.
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I allow for grace when students make mistakes and use these moments for teaching. I also don’t expect any students to be perfect or not make mistakes.
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It is something that is on my mind when I interact with students that this is a teaching they have encountered. I try to uplift them and acknowledge their imago dei and create a classroom that honors that image in them, rather than focus on this interpretation of sin nature.
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This understanding can help one to be more patient and forgiving of misbehaviour since none of us are perfect or without sinful ways at times.
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I remind myself constantly that we are all fallen, we have all had our sins of challenge that is difficult to give up or conquer. Each of us needs support from others to overcome those more difficult sins to move on from. This is what will build the foundation of your testimony of what God has done in your life. No one can argue against what you have experienced, they cannot contest your story. Your experiences of hard work to shed the bonds of this fallen world will become what God can use through your testimony to reach others of similar difficulties! Do not frown upon those who are struggling to overcome, come along side them and lift them up. Help them know God is there and working in them with them. This will become a means by which others can be reached and touched by the hand of God!
My father is fighting multiple myeloma. His fight was ended for a time. Then he contracted COVID and a few months later, his cancer resurfaced. He was supposed to be in remission for up to 10 years, but due to our fallen world, he has to fight again. BUT, you see, he is able to reach people for God that may never have had the opportunity to hear form Him. He has already touched many lives through his resilient faith and knowing that his healing with come in God’s time. He knows that there are more people who need to hear about God and see his living testimony before this cancer is lifted from him again. Yes, the journey is hard and we fight every day, BUT, God is working. This is how God uses our fallen natures to heal His people!