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What does Dr. Teague mean when he says, “Integration was never the legitimate starting point for a godly pedagogy”?
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The beginning of biblical integration and a biblical worldview is knowledge of God’s Word. We, as Christian educators, must be “infused” with God’s Word. We must have a spiritual growth mindset, constantly in His Word, learning, and applying it to our own lives. This is truly the only way we can properly integrate the Bible into our daily lessons.
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He means that the starting point for a godly pedagogy is a knowledge of and foundation in God’s Word. It is from the Bible that integration effectively stems. If our integration is not first founded in Scripture, then what are we integrating and what is the purpose of it? Our lessons should be so infused with God’s Word that we cannot separate one from the other. This is a much different approach than sprinkling a few Bible verses into our lesson and checking off the integration box. Our students won’t see the necessity to have God and His Word be their lives’ foundation if our lessons don’t even have such a foundation.
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He is referring to the fact that without a true knowledge of the Word, one cannot even begin to define a biblical worldview or to integrate it.
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We need to start our lessons from a knowledge of the Bible and not just try to take on the Bible into our lessons.
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Dr. Teague meant that we have to start with God–who is He, what has He done, what is mankind, what are the effects of sin, what does the bible say. I think he meant that a relationship with God is the starting point for believers to become informed and knowledgeable about God’s Word and basic theology. If we do not really understand who God is and what he has done, we cannot pass that on to our students.