CCS Picnic 09/25/2020

Background

moving from convenience/fit to conviction

Experience growing up

exposure to 3 types of education

Experience as teachers

2 private Christian schools

our process for picking Crossroads

our first school

focused on external

home school vs hybrid vs full day, Christian, cost, location

Then throughout the application process, a couple of things clicked

moving me from a place of convenience and fit, towards conviction

greatest commandment

a reminder that we, as followers of Christ, are fundamentally different than those who are not

everything we do, everything we are is a sub-point to Christ

Deuteronomy 6:4–8 ESV

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

first thing after greatest command

a covenant call - Church and local church

a call not just for parents

Priority - teaching them to Love the Lord

importance of education/training - created to work - learning about God’s creation, science, history, math, grammar, literature, the arts

primary goal of using that knowledge in a God-centered, to God’s glory, the purpose is love

vs a me-centered way -

Other educational options present obstacles

public school, Christian school

covenant school