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The Principal ThingWhat L.E.D. is all about |  |
| Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. ~ Pro. 4:7 |
What is the principal purpose of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™?
The guiding principal behind L.E.D. is not just to have a relaxed, natural-methods, lifestyle-based home education. It is not even just to have family-centered education. It’s not even just to raise kids who “love Jesus” and to shelter them from “the world”. These are all good parts of L.E.D., but none of them is the “principal thing;” although knowing, loving, and serving the Jesus of the Bible is definitely the reason for our educational goal.
Proverbs 4:7 tells us “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.” (See also verses 4-9.) L.E.D. has one main underlying goal, that is for our children to “get wisdom”. We’ve talked before about how the “Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.” Therefore, any instruction your child receives that is not based on the Fear of the Lord, is not wisdom; which throws out the entire government/public school system.
No matter how many Christian teachers and coaches are there trying to bring a little light into a very dark place for the lost and dying that are there, government education is designed with a main underlying goal also, to indoctrinate children into their way of thinking and beliefs about life. These ways are blatantly at odds with the ways of the Bible, making this no place for a Christian child to receive his instruction; his view of life and way of thinking. But expounding on this issue isn’t the purpose of this article. The purpose of ALL education is to impart a way of thinking and view of life. By defining OUR goal, hopefully you will see how the goals of these 2 systems - government/public ed and L.E.D. - are worlds apart.
Let’s begin with a working definition of Wisdom. Wisdom is seeing life as God sees it; viewing the world, all of life, through the lens of God’s Word. That is called having a Biblical Worldview. You can see why this begins with the “fear of the Lord”. The beginning of Wisdom is knowing who God really is, (which instills an honor and reverence of Him,) and believing the Bible is His Word, and having a desire to follow His ways. The Bible, God, through His Word, speaks to all areas of our lives; and wisdom for living all of life is based on renewing our minds to His Word, developing a Biblical Worldview. In fact Joshua 1:8 puts it, that by having His Word always in our mouths, and meditating on it day and night, to do all that is in it, is the way to prosperity and good success.
We, as Christians, are in the world (we live on this earth, amongst those that are of “this world” only), yet we are not to be “of the world”. We are set apart to live differently than those of this world; to live a lifestyle rooted in the way of God’s Word, not following the ungodly lifestyle, ways and beliefs of this world. Romans 12:1 tells us that we are not to be conformed to the world, but to be transformed by the renewing of the mind. That is, God’s Word changing not only WHAT we think, but also HOW we think - transforming our minds, totally changing them from the way the world thinks. Having a Biblical Worldview doesn’t just mean we don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t cuss, don’t sleep around, and we do go to church on Sunday instead of sleeping in, and if we’re really on the ball, we say a prayer and read a verse every day. It means our way of thinking and viewing all of life is governed by God’s Word, rather than by the world around us.
The title of Israel Wayne’s book, Homeschooling from a Biblical Worldview, really sums up our goal. Just by being Christians, you will not impart a Biblical Worldview to your children. Perhaps your own mind is not renewed, and you don’t even have much of a Biblical Worldview yourself, to impart to them. Everything that is around us in “the world” counters a Biblical Worldview. That is why we must purposely “not be conformed” to it, why we must purposely renew our minds by the Word of God. If your own mind has not been transformed, from the non-Christian education you received and just from living “in the world”, this goal of “Homeschooling from a Biblical Worldview” may seem impossible to you. But what God has called you to do, He will equip you do to. You may have to learn right alongside your children, leading them, being only one step ahead.
Just having your children be at home with you, rather than “out in the world”, will not give them a Biblical Worldview. It will not give them the foundation they need to stand strong in their Christianity in an ever-growing anti-Christian society. (I hope this strong Christianity, this Wisdom, is what you want for your children.) Resorting to educating with whatever free or cheap resources you can find that cover the topic, using a hodge-podge of resources with no thought to the worldview they’re written from, will only give your child an inconsistent Worldview; a shaky, unstable foundation at best (no foundation, or a faulty non-Christian one at worst); especially if you don’t have a solid Biblical Worldview yourself to recognize and counter those views presented in those resources.
Purposely educating your children from a Biblical Worldview will give them the foundation, to not only stand as Christians, but to make inroads in changing this world; to affect the lives of those around them - however large or small God makes that scope - for the Kingdom of God. This is why L.E.D. exists for you, and not just as a philosophy for educating our own family. Our desire, through L.E.D. (and all of Me and My House ministries), is to help disciple you to lead (disciple) your family into a Biblical Worldview, through home educating by Lifestyle methods; even as we ourselves are growing in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior and His Word.
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