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Identify one or two practical ways you can help prepare your students for the struggles they’ll face in the world.
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By showing them real world examples.
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Struggles they will face will fall into some categories that we can discuss during literature pieces. Struggles often involve morality, some may involve the testing of faith, many will involve relationships, and most will be in the battle of the mind. More. These all have known characters that have similarities. These are things we can address through character analysis and paired readings with the Word of God. He has given me this opportunity through the preparation ground of my own hardships, my own study of the Word and prayer, my own past experiences teaching students these 35 years. He will give me the appropriate wisdom and words, empathy and compassion, determination and nurturing to be able to discern ways to be the best teacher I can be for my students He has chosen as they face life during the time I have them.
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A practical way I can prepare my students for the struggles they will face in the world is by equipping them with God’s Word. Through equipping them with this I can then guide them to start going to God’s Word to find answers to their questions.
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Firmly rooting them in a biblical worldview and exposing them to competing worldviews is essential to this task. I also try to make sure students have the freedom to question and doubt things regarding the Christian faith and wrestle with those questions and doubts so that they come to own it for themselves as opposed to just saying the right things that others tell them to say.
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One way to help students with their struggles is by encouraging them to be honest about current struggles they are facing. Christians are often encouraged to hide struggles and it doesn’t teach them how to handle them.
