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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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Our goal is to raise up the next generation to know and love the Lord. To understand who He is and who they are as His children. We are to help them see they are unique and specifically created for a purpose in this world. Their education is to help them be better equipped to fulfill that calling on their lives, to help them make sense of those “big questions”, and to build a solid foundation for their future.
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I think she means that you are here to educate them forever. When a student is no longer in your course that doesn’t mean you stop sharing the Gospel with them or sharing his word. It just means you will educate them inside and outside of the classroom. Heaven/God is eternal and we need to make sure these students are aware of that.
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We not only want to impart knowledge that will help them move to the next grade level or prepare them for a job in the future. We want to love our students with the love of Christ and share His truth with them so they will not only be prepared for the next grade level or a job in the future, but they will be prepared when Christ returns.
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I responded to this in the first question already, that it gives us an eternal perspective. Present day issues/concerns are temporal. We approach students as if they are two-dimensional, containing of a physical body and mind. We obsess over these two dimension at the risk of losing their souls for all eternity.
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God gave us a gift to teach others. As long as we are on Earth, we should be telling the gospel of Christ.
