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What does the lecturer mean when she says you are here to educate your students for eternity?
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When Ellen Lowrie Black discusses teaching for eternity, the students salvation is front in my mind when I’m planning. Helping them to engage with the Word and integrating Biblical truths into their curriculum in a manner that helps them integrate them into their own lives is a high priority. It is part of helping them grasp their true identity and purpose. They also need sources that are reliable in defending their faith, and they need to know what hermeneutics and exegesis are as well as looking for bias. Sending kids out unarmed can leave them defenseless in the fray the world presents.
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It means that a Christian philosophy is much more than learning facts in school. It’s helping students to understand who they are, why they are here, what their purpose is, and where they are going. It’s a mission to make sure they know their worth comes from being a child of God.
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I believe that she is reminding us that not only are we educating the student for the day, school year, life here on Earth, but to think on a larger scale. Our teaching can go beyond math, reading, etc and we have the opportunity to change and effect a child’s eternity by sharing the Word. We are responsible for so much more than subjects in school, but in leading children to God.
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I understand this t mean that we are created for eternity. Our students must learn to view their lives with an eternal view. It is not simply right here right now. God created our students to spend forever with Him and we need to teach with this vantage point of view.
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We are not only educating the children for today, but we are setting them up for success and security for their future. A future and a hope that is found in the redemptive work of Christ alone.
