Christian education is never an end in itself, but serves to magnify the glory of God. It should never lose sight of the fact that there is no final perfection in human life, society, or in education itself apart from the appearance of Jesus Christ. At his return Christ will bring a conclusion to history through judgment of both the living and the dead. Christ A Christian education is part of Christ s Great Commission to disciple the nations. The word discipline means to train, and the word instruct means to teach.
Education includes both.
As teachers labor to nurture, instruct, and discipline students, their central task is to make disciples of Christ. For a biblical curriculum to be profitable, it is necessary for the teacher to practice a biblical method of teaching. Both the mind and the will of the student need to be trained and brought into subjection to God s authority. The teacher should pray and work to the end that the student s reasoning will submit to God s authority. The mind needs to be trained to submit to Scripture and to resist the temptation of leaning on one s own understanding.