Back to School

 School has started up again.  Each year around this time I focus the blog on this topic as it is a critical time in the life of our young people.  As they grow and develop and learn of the world around them, we need to take care to ensure that they have a proper biblical foundation for understanding how to think about the world.  I am afraid that for too long we have been so worried about teaching them to think the right things and how to avoid the wrong things that we have forgotten that we need to teach them to think.  

When we begin to teach them to think there are a few beginning steps.  First we should teach them that they cannot think just any ole way they like.  The Bible demands that we think through its lenses and Christ demands that we have the mind that He has.  Thought then, as well as behavior, needs to be brought into conformity with Christ and His Word!  Secondly, thought is not something that is internal, it is foundational.  We act because of how we think.  We behave because of how we think.  How we think and what we think are foundational acts.  Therefore we should arguably take more care to consider how and what we think that what we do.  Third (but certainly not final), not all ways of thinking are created equal.  When things do not conform to Christ and His Word, and when things cause us to behave in a way that is inconsistent with Christ and His will, we need to change our patterns of thinking.  

So send your kids to school thoughtfully.  Make sure they are thinking well!