What 3 things do you want from your principal or colleagues?

You want to teach from a Biblical perspective. You know that your principal or colleagues can help you do this.
 
Question: What 3 things do you want from your principal or colleagues?
 
Here are sample things you might want to from your principal or colleagues:
  • Support
  • Encouragement
  • Accountability
  • Resources
  • Training
Question: What other things do you want from your principal or colleagues?
 
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What 3 things will you do to get started?

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What 3 ways will you involve parents?

You want your students to better apply a Biblical perspective. You think parents can help.
 
Question: What 3 ways will you involve parents?
 
Here are sample ways to involve parents:
  • Invite parents to pray for their child.
  • Invite parents to come to class to share how they apply a Biblical perspective.
  • Encourage parents to ask their child questions like “What’s the Bible say about that?”
Question: What other ways can you involve parents?
 
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What 3 ways will you decorate your room?

You want your students to learn to better connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. You know that room decorations support learning. So, you decide change your room decorations.
 
Question: What 3 ways will you decorate your room?
 
Here are sample ways to decorate your room:
  • A poster of a Bible verse (Micah 6.8).
  • A banner with a key Biblical principle, for example, “Love your neighbor.”
  • A list of key questions. Here are 4 key questions: Who is God? Who are you? What’s wrong with the world? What’s the solution?
Question: What other ways could you decorate your room?
 
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To help your students connect what they study and creation-fall-redemption-restoration, deepen your own understanding

You want to more effectively help your students connect what they study and God's overarching story of creation-fall-redemption-restoration. So, you want to deepen your own understanding of the connections between what your students study and creation-fall-redemption-restoration.

Question: How can you do this?

Answer: By reflecting on what your students study and then identifying the connections between what your students study and creation-fall-redemption-restoration. Read More...

To help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches, deepen your own understanding

You want to more effectively help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. So, you want to deepen your own understanding of the connections between what your students study and what the Bible teaches.

Question: How can you do this?

Answer: By identifying 3 things:
  1. What your students study.
  2. The Biblical principles that naturally connect to what your students study.
  3. The connections between what students study and the Biblical principles you identified.
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What 3 things will you put on your course handouts?

You want to target Biblical perspective. So, you decide to include Biblical perspective on your course handouts.
 
Question: What 3 things will you put on your course handouts?
 
Here are sample things you could put on your handouts:
  • A personal testimony that includes your passion about Biblical perspective.
  • Bible verses that you want your students to learn. (I like Genesis 1.26-28, Micah 6.8, and Romans 12.2.)
  • Biblical principles you want your students to learn. Here are 3 examples: All truth is God’s truth. Be content. Take care of God’s creation.
Question: What other things can you put on your course handouts?
 
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How can you learn to nurture your students’ faith even more?

As a Christian school teacher, you want to nurture your students’ faith. So, you want to help your students:
  • Understand a Biblical perspective of what they study.
  • Apply a Biblical perspective to what they study.
Question: How can you learn to nurture your students’ faith even more?

Answer: By reflecting on questions. By reflecting on questions about understanding and applying Biblical perspective. Here are 65 questions. Read More...

To learn more about targeting Biblical perspective, explore these 12 questions

You want your students to understand and apply a Biblical perspective—to connect what they study, the Bible, and their lives. To help your students do this, you know you need to target Biblical perspective even more. So, you want to learn how to do this.

Question: How can you learn more about targeting Biblical perspective?

Answer: By exploring the following list of 12 questions: Read More...

To get started with targeting Biblical perspective, take this self-assessment

You want your students to understand and apply a Biblical perspective—to connect what they study, the Bible, and their lives. So, you want to target Biblical perspective.

Question: How can you get started?

Answer: By taking the following self-assessment. Read More...

How can you care for God's creation even more?

You know that caring for God's creation is part of pursuing a growing relationship with God.

Question: How can you care for God's creation even more?

To find out, pray and then reflect on the following 7 questions:
  1. What does the Bible say about caring for God's creation? (Gen. 1.28)
  2. How do you care for God's creation?
  3. What excites/frustrates you about caring for God's creation?
  4. How does caring for God's creation help you have a growing relationship with Him?
  5. What helps you care for God's creation? What hinders you?
  6. How can you care for God's creation even more?
  7. What will you do?
Pursue a growing relationship with God. Today.

To make even more disciples, what do you need to KeepStartStop doing?

You know that making disciples is part of pursuing a growing relationship with God.

Question: To make even more disciples, what do you need to keep doing? start doing? stop doing?

To find out, pray and then reflect on the following 6 questions:
  1. What does the Bible say about making disciples? (Matt. 28.18-20)
  2. How do you currently make disciples?
  3. What do you like/dislike about making disciples?
  4. How does making disciples help you have a growing relationship with God?
  5. To make even more disciples, what do you need to keep doing? start doing? stop doing?
  6. What will you do?
Pursue a growing relationship with God. Today.

How can you participate in Christ's Body, the Church, even more?

You know that participating in Christ's Body, the Church, is part of pursuing a growing relationship with God.

Question: How can you participate in Christ's Body, the Church, even more?

To find out, reflect on the following 7 questions:
  1. What does the Bible say about participating in the Christ's Body, the Church? (1 Cor. 12.7, 12.12-13; Heb. 10.25)
  2. How do you currently participate in Christ's Body?
  3. What satisfies/concerns you about participating in Christ's Body?
  4. How does participating in Christ's Body, the Church, help you have a growing relationship with God?
  5. What helps you participate in Christ's Body? What hinders you?
  6. How can you participate in Christ's Body even more?
  7. What will you do?
Pursue a growing relationship with God. Today.

How can you practice the spiritual disciplines even more?

You know that practicing the spiritual disciplines can help you pursue a growing relationship with God.

Question: How can you practice the spiritual disciplines even more?

To find out, pray and then reflect on the following 7 questions:
  1. Which spiritual disciplines do you currently practice (for example, meditation, prayer, fasting, Bible study, service, confession, and worship)?
  2. What's satisfying/unsatisfying about practicing the spiritual disciplines?
  3. How does practicing the spiritual disciplines help you have a growing relationship with God?
  4. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being high), to what extent do you practice the spiritual disciplines?
  5. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being high), to what extent do you want to practice the spiritual disciplines?
  6. How can you practice the spiritual disciplines even more?
  7. What will you do?
Pursue a growing relationship with God. Today.

How can bear the fruit of the Spirit even more?

You know bearing the fruit of the Spirit is part of pursuing a growing relationship with God.

Question: How can you bear the fruit of the Spirit even more?

To find out, pray and then reflect on the following 6 questions:
  1. What are the fruit of the Spirit? (Gal. 5.22-23)
  2. What do you like/dislike about your current level of fruit bearing?
  3. How does bearing the fruit of the Spirit help you have a growing relationship with God?
  4. What helps you better bear the fruit of the Spirit? What hinders you?
  5. How can you bear the fruit of the Spirit even more? (2 Pet. 1.5-7)
  6. What will you do?
Pursue a growing relationship with God. Today.

To love God and others even more, what do you need to KeepStartStop doing?

You know that loving God and others plays a key role in pursuing a growing relationship with God.

Question: To love God and others even more, what do you need to keep doing? start doing? stop doing?

To find out, pray and then reflect on the following 5 questions:
  1. What does the Bible say about loving God and others? (Matt. 22.37-39) 
  2. What excites/frustrates you about loving God and others?
  3. How does loving God and others help you have a growing relationship with God?
  4. To love God and others even more, what do you need to keep doing? start doing? stop doing?
  5. What will you do?
Pursue a growing relationship with God. Today.

What can you do to understand and apply the Bible even more?

You know that understanding and applying the Bible, God's Word, can help you pursue a growing relationship with God.

Question: What can you do to understand and apply the Bible even more?

To find out, pray and then reflect on the following 7 questions:
  1. How do you learn about the Bible?
  2. How do you use the Bible to guide your life? (2 Tim. 3.16)
  3. What satisfies/concerns you about your understanding of the Bible? about your use of the Bible to guide your life?
  4. What helps you better understand and apply the Bible? What hinders you?
  5. How does understanding and applying the Bible help you have a growing relationship with God?
  6. What can you do to understand and apply the Bible even more?
  7. What will you do?
Pursue a growing relationship with God. Today.

How can you pursue a growing relationship with God?

You want to continue pursuing a growing relationship with God. You know this involves things like: 
  • Understanding the Bible, God’s Word, and allowing it to guide your life 
  • Loving God and others
  • Bearing the fruit of the Spirit
  • Practicing spiritual disciplines
  • Participating in Christ’s Body, the Church
  • Making Christian disciples of all nations
  • Caring for God’s creation
Question: How can you pursue a growing relationship with God?

To find out, pray and then reflect on the following 7 questions:
  1. What can you do to understand and apply the Bible even more?
  2. To love God and others even more, what do you need to KeepStartStop doing?
  3. How can you bear the fruit of the Spirit even more?
  4. How can you practice the spiritual disciplines even more?
  5. How can you participate in Christ's Body, the Church, even more?
  6. To make even more disciples, what do you need to keep doing? start doing? stop doing?
  7. How can you care for God's creation even more?
Pursue a growing relationship with God. Today.


*To talk a self-assessment on your relationship with God, click here.

How's your relationship with God?

You’re a Christian serving in a school. In response to Christ’s love and as the foundation for your ministry at school, you want to have a growing relationship with God.

Question: How’s your relationship with God?

To find out, take the following self-assessment. Read More...

What's creation-fall-redemption-restoration?

You’re working to help your students develop the mind of Christ. You want to help your students to connect what they study and the Bible. You’ve helped your student connect what they study and specific Biblical principles. And you want to make sure that your students connect what they study with the big picture of what God is doing.

Question: What’s the big picture?

Answer: God’s story of creation-fall-redemption-restoration. Here’s the short version of God’s story. Read More...

Connect God's world, God's Word, and life

Help your students connect God's world, God's Word, and their lives.

Help your students get the “big picture” perspective

Smaller things fit into bigger things. For example, puzzle pieces fit into the overall puzzle picture.
 
In Christian education, smaller things fit into bigger things. For example, what students study (smaller picture) fits into God's overarching story of creation-fall-redemption-restoration (bigger picture).
 
Implication: Ask your students, "How does what you study fit into God's story?" Don't ask, "How can you add God's story to what you study?" 
 
Why? Because this question increases the tendency of students to "purify" their studies by sprinkling on Bible verses. Because this question is actually not an effective question—it asks, "How can you fit the bigger picture into the smaller picture?" Because this question doesn't help students get the "big picture" perspective of what they study.

Target Biblical perspective. Get your students to fit what they study into God's story.

How can your teachers help your students make connections?

To get an idea of how your teachers can more effectively help students what they study and what the Bible teaches, complete the following assessment. Next, use your assessment data to develop action plans. Read More...

What 3 Bible verses will you help your students memorize, understand, and apply?

You want your students to develop a Christ-centered worldview. So, you decide to help your students deepen their Bible knowledge.
 
Question: What 3 Bible verses will you help your students memorize, understand, and apply? Read More...

Provide training in creation-fall-redemption-restoration

You’re a principal, and you’re excited that teachers have helped their students connect 2 things: course content and Biblical principles. Now you want teachers to help their students connect 3 things: course content, Biblical principles, and creation-fall-redemption-restoration. Good.
 
Question: What are you going to do? Read More...