In order to be successful, several innovative educational procedures and academic objectives must be attended to if a program is to be vibrant and effective, yet remain distinctively Christian. This revelation allows students to make further observations concerning the nature of reality, and it provides a metaphysical framework in which the Christian education takes place. The Bible is the foundational and contextual document for all curricular items in the Christian school. The teaching authority of Scripture commits the believer at certain focal points and so provides an interpretative framework, an overall glimpse of how everything relates to God. The program is to be epistemologically sound.
Epistemology deals with how a person knows.
As such, it has to do with one of the most basic problems of our human existence. If our epistemology is incorrect, then it follows that everything else in our knowledge system will be wrong or, at the very least, distorted. In the quest for truth and knowledge every philosophic system develops a hierarchy of epistemological methods in which one method generally serves as a criterion for judging the veracity of conclusions attained by other means. The Christian criterion and the basis for such knowing is the inerrancy of God's Word. A stated goal to and for students would be for them to articulate the basis of their newly informed views.