Education

About Education

We are born with a desire to experience and to learn – to be educated in the ways of our world and to gain insight and understanding into who we are and why we are here.

Where does this passion for learning come from? Foundationally it must come from our desire to fulfill a purpose in life. But we must use caution: if our purpose is motivated by a desire for self-gratification, we will embark on a journey to reach the top of the mountain only to find there is nowhere to go but back down.

But if our purpose is to fulfill a higher calling that blesses others, then when we reach the top of the mountain we will see an even higher summit within our reach…one with even greater rewards. We learn to set new goals. Successful people are lifetime learners who never stop searching for answers.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he shall not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6

To address learning, the leaders of Centerpoint Life Planning have identified five different aspects of education:

•Truth
We are blessed to live in a world that gives us knowledge, but all of that knowledge isn’t truth. Only God can give us knowledge and truth because He is the author of all truth, delivering it to us through the Holy Scripture, His prophets, nature, as answers to prayer, and through visions and dreams.

•Wisdom
God also gives us wisdom, understanding and discernment to identify whether what we are receiving is accurate. If something is 99% true but 1% false, that 1% can easily lead us astray: it is the deception of the lie.

•Discernment
Discernment of the lie becomes possible only once we have accepted wisdom – the beginning of which is fear of the Lord and acknowledging His sovereignty over every aspect of our life. When we have wisdom from God, He protects us and gives us a clear path for our lives, each one of us created to serve a purpose He determined.

•Socialization
Socialization is an important component in our understanding of the world, and teaches us how to collaborate with others. Because information is now at our fingertips, our youth are not interacting and participating in activities that would help them acquire critical thinking skills and practice socialization techniques. Business requires so much collaboration of thoughts and ideas that many leaders are concerned about how work will get done in the future. These collaborative skills need to be developed through socialization as well as academics.

•Academics
Unfortunately most educational environments have a one size fits all academic experience. But some children take in information visually, some children are auditory learners and others will learn through a “hands on” experience. The children who take in information differently from the teaching methods being utilized may find themselves at a learning disadvantage. And those who are never given the opportunity to discover their true purpose languish in unfulfilled lives.

Great education must identify God’s design in the life of a student, and the goal of the educator should be to create an environment recognizing the uniqueness of each individual. This includes various gifts, values, personality types and behavior patterns of students. The gifts of course are broad based to include athletic ability, intelligence, spiritual gifts, capacity to assimilate and use information, critical thinking skills, and many other talents that make us unique in this world.

Deuteronomy 6 gives us wise instruction on how to address the individual experience so that the kinesthetic, auditory, tactile, or visual learner is taught by their respective learning styles to reinforce the Word of God.

Divine Strategies for Education offers a tremendous array of resources to help our members grow and learn. Whether you’re a parent involved in the education of your children, a grandparent providing counsel, or an educator who wants to include God in your instruction, we can provide the information and guidance you’re seeking.

We’re committed to helping you achieve wisdom and purpose through God… because we know that life will never have meaning without the understanding that God is the author of all knowledge.