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Postmodernism presents a challenge to the Christian view of epistemology. What are some practical ways you, as a Christian educator, can respond to this challenge?
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It is important to continually point students to the Truth that is in Scripture when they are faced with big questions and challenges. We can pray with students about understanding this Truth, and how it applies to them, and help them make decisions to act based off of this Truth.
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It is important that we understand and communicate to our students that God created all things. They were made by Him, for His glory. Nothing is relative culturally, but, instead, everything must be measured by the plumline of God’s word.
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Since we are made in the image of God and are like God, we need to know and believe that we are made to represent Him and bring Him glory. While God did indeed give us a free will, He wants us to want to have a relationship with Him. He wants us to want to be like Him. He wants us to want to make the right choice, and sometimes that choice won’t be what we want to do, but what we know God wants us to do. I think the sooner people realize that we were not made for ourselves and that we were made for God and made to bring Him glory, the sooner people might actually start living that way. As Christians, we are called to die to ourselves; put our fleshly desires to the side. This is not our life to live for ourselves, we were given this life to live for God. He gives us our every breath. We should use our every breath to bring Him glory, not ourselves.
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Knowing your Bible and where to find pertinent biblical truths is one way to assist in areas where people may challenge elements of your faith. Without arguing, pointing people to the truth in a loving way will be a greater witness to God’s love than trying to argue a point, especially if both you and another person has very strong convictions. 1 John tells us that they will know we are Christians by our love. How we love others and the way we approach them will speak volumes about what it looks like to acknowledge Jesus as your Savior and follow in his ways. If we become Jesus with skin on, so to say, then the testimony of our lives in our demeanor, actions, words, gestures will be a reflection of Jesus.
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In a Postmodern world, people get to chose, and sometimes invent, what they “know.” In a Christian school, you have to keep pointing out the Word of God as truth, and keep pointing student to it. It really is the only standard of truth that we have to base the rest of the things that we ‘know’ on.
