The implications for our discipline, such as the inability of unredeemed persons to understand spiritual truth, and the necessity for supernatural intervention in the educational process, give rise to our recognition of the indispensability of our partnership with the Holy Spirit. The second part of the volume presents the renewal of the mind. This is a strategic dimension. Too often, training people to memorize arguments to be used with people who disagree gains center stage. This is a corruption of the whole process.
Theology is important.
Instruction in Scripture is essential, for this enables us to think like Christians. Thinking Christianly did not begin with Harry Blamires. From Downs's doctoral dissertation on Horace Bushnell leak several short but meaty discourses on children throughout the book. Training children to think Christianly is his passion. They are delightful passages.