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Identify one or two ways you can help prepare your students for attacks on their Christian faith.
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As a graphic design teacher I want to prepare my students for their faith to be challenged when others around them might ask them to create something they might not agree with biblically. Especially in freelance work outside of a christian school people can push artists to create something that is explicit, dangerous, or unGodly. Some customers will attack artists for not creating the art that was asked for no matter if the artist believes that it is a wrong thing to create. This can feel like an attack on people’s beliefs and I want to prepare my students to stand up for their Christian faith.
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Hiding God’s word in their hearts with scripture memorization and daily interaction with God’s Word is crucial for preparing students for attacks on their Christian faith. Open and honest discussion is also extremely important. They live in a fallen world, they must be able to identify attacks and deception.
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One discussion in my classroom that we have is how to respond to friends or family when they say that they don’t believe in God. My first graders talk about ways to witness to others and that sometimes people become angry and do not want to hear about the Lord. I always tell my students to not get upset, but to pray and love those that do not know the Lord. I tell them that people will know they belong to the Lord by the love that they show others. We also discuss what a good friend looks like and how to discern whether a friend is a true friend. I tell students that they can be friends with all people (regardless of their faith), however we talk about how we live differently according to the Lord’s teachings and how our friends may not. I tell my students that they need to make wise decisions and not be lead down dark paths. We discuss how we need to walk worthy in the Lord and sometimes that means setting ourselves apart from our friends and choosing not to follow them,
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There are several ways in which you can prepare students on attacks on their Christian faith. One is to be well versed in the word and scripture. Put the armor of God on them and his truth and remind them to live in the world but not of the world. Also, to warn them of the philosophies of the world and legislative attacks by government and man. To also remind them that the Bible tells us that we will be prosecuted as he too was prosecuted.
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Help students learn how they can study the Bible on their own. How to discern what is the truth from the Word and not from the world or Satan. To learn to hear from the Spirit. How to follow the Lord’s prayer when they pray. To learn how to defend some of the more common difficult questions about God.