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Why is it important that we teach our students strategies for discernment?
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I think the reason it is important to teach strategies for discernment to students is to prepare them for the real world. The lecturer said that the reason teens were walking away from God was because they had never talked about tough issues in life. I think if we make our lessons Biblically integrated, that it will give students the foundation that they need in life.
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One day our students will leave our classrooms and enter a secular school, college, and eventually the “real world”. It is an injustice to them to not teach them how to discern for themselves and to just expect them to take our word for everything. I want students to know that I am not god and I don’t have all the answers. I want to teach them to use their own discernment to distinguish what is in line with the Bible and what is not.
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It is important to teach our students discernment. We are called in be in the world but not of it. While in the world, they will hear and see a lot of things that are not truth. They need to learn to measure everything with the Bible.
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These students don’t live in a bubble. They are going to have worldview questions thrown at them. They will have their biblical worldview challenged. We need to prepare them to guard their heart with discernment. They need practical, where-the-rubber-meets-the-road methods to qualify if the information is from a biblical worldview. They need to qualify if it is good information. The opportunity we have with students on such a regular basis, we really have some time to incorporate strategies for discernment. Preparation has them thinking this through under our care while if they have questions, we can guide and help them.
