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How is the word “infuse” related to biblical integration?
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The word “infuse” is related to biblical integration in that everything that we teach, in every way that we interact with our students, it should be infused with a biblical framework. There shouldn’t be a way to separate or deconstruct our biblical integration. It should be completely infused into what we are doing.
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As Dr. Black states: “Everything has God’s Word in it.” We can’t take His footprint out of the classroom when He is in fact the Creator and Author of all things. Everything has His signature on it, which makes biblical integration practical and necessary. We can’t effectively separate any given subject from Him, (and we shouldn’t).
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An infusion is something so deeply combined together that it cannot be separated. This is what we need for biblical integration more than just sprinkled on to add flavor.
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Infuse means that our lesson should be so permeated by God’s Word, that one cannot separate the lesson from the Bible and vice versa. The lesson should be founded in God’s Word rather us trying to sprinkle in some of God’s Word into our lesson and check off our ” biblical integration box.” We cannot infuse our lessons with Scripture, however, if we are not first infused ourselves with God and His Word. Praying that God gives me wisdom in basing my lessons in His Word for I’ve been so guilty of just adding in the Bible (if at all) to my lessons with the excuse of not having the time.
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I love that word infuse. It implies that the teaching of biblical concepts cannot be separated from the concepts of the specific lesson.