The aim of Christian education is to help repair the damage done by our first parents. The focus of Christian education is to daily challenge students to conform their lives to Christ. Education in itself cannot, and never will, repair the ruins of sin. If God is left out of the repair process, the Christian school is spiritually barren. Only when the school's philosophical directives exalt the preeminence of Christ does the repair process operate in the power of the Holy Spirit.
School is about learning.
It is not one or the other-it is both. This sacred trust is imparted by God to every Christian school teacher. This is why the classroom teacher is so significant in fulfilling the mission of Christian education. Until students accept the Christ of Scripture as personal Savior, learning, in a Biblical sense, cannot begin. And no matter how successfully a teacher imparts knowledge, until the heart is healed, the result is only the production of knowledgeable students who are Biblically ignorant.