Generational Discipleship Outline Biblical Foundations of Education Generational

Generational Discipleship

Outline Biblical Foundations of Education Generational Discipleship

Kingdom Culture Terminology: Education or Enculturation

“Culture Overcomes Strategy” “Research completed on two separate occasions has reinforced two basic insights. First, as demonstrated by analysis completed for a private roundtable in the United Kingdom for a group of substantially wealthy international families, family culture was an area of exceptionally high importance. When asked to rank-order the critical elements of family legacy, the relative importance of formal governance documents and structures, leadership, and culture were selected as the top three issues, Of these, culture came out as a surprising first choice among the families present. … In the business world, it is becoming increasingly well known that ‘culture overcomes strategy. ’ …” Family Wealth Management

Kingdom Culture Terminology: Education or Enculturation into the Kingdom of God Building Robust Family Cultures

Kingdom Culture “So a robust account of Christian education and formation requires an adequate philosophy of action – something little thought about in contemporary discussions that are fixed on ‘the Christian mind. ’ We have spent a generation thinking about thinking. But despite our ‘folk’ accounts and (deluded) selfperception, we don’t think our way through to action; much of our action is not the outcome of rational deliberation and conscious choice. Much of our action is not ‘pushed’ by ideas or conclusions; rather, it grows out of our character and is in a sense ‘pulled’ out of us by our attraction to a telos. If we are going to be prime citizens of the kingdom of God who act in the world as agents of renewal and redemptive culture-making, then it is not

Kingdom Culture enough to equip our intellects to merely think rightly about the world. We also need to recruit our imaginations. Our hearts need to be captured by a vision of the telos that ‘pulls’ out of us action that is directed toward the kingdom of God. ”

Kingdom Culture Terminology: Education or Enculturation into the Kingdom of God Building Robust Family Cultures Environment & Community

The Myth of Religious Neutrality

Psalm 111: 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever. Jeremiah 17: 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? Romans 8: 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. Colossians 2: 3 in [Christ] are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Romans 1: 18, 28 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, … 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, …”

Myth of Religious Neutrality “Bible writers always regard everyone as having some divinity belief or other. According to them, what is wrong with people is not that they lack religious belief, but that they believe in the wrong divinity. ” Roy A. Clouser, The Myth of Religious Neutrality

Purpose of Education • Modern Pagan = Socialization • Greek (classical) Pagan = “Freedom” • Christian = Knowledge of God (Relational) • Also: maturity for greater dominion

Homo Sapiens or Homo Adorans ? “What is education? ” must first ask, “what is man? ” Modern pagan answer = homo sapiens (thinking man) Biblical answer is homo adorans (worshipping man) Greco-pagan view = The primacy of the intellect. Biblical view = Imago Dei, Image of God. 1. Man is like God; 2. Man is not God

3 Implications Daily Worship – Praying the “Hours” Bible Saturation: The Bible is not a mere additional “subject” in a Christian education. It is the lens through which we interpret everything else! Training in choral music

Generational Discipleship 1. Rites of Passage 2. Education for Adults 3. Financial Education 4. Comprehensive Discipleship Plan