2016 True Education Symposium

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Pattern Education

Jeanie Mabley

The Perfect Teacher

Dear Father, we thank you again that you will be here and bring all our thoughts into captivity so we can hear your voice.

As we look at Jesus, the perfect parent, the perfect teacher, our pattern, I thank you, Father, for that promise that we can do all things through you with your help in the Holy Spirit.

Well, I wish I could have heard Beatrice another hour, but we'll hear her tomorrow.

Montague gave me this assignment many months ago, so I had lots of time for preparation.

There's so much material to read and so much counsel.

And I knew that because I've been down this road as a homeschooling parent, and it was overwhelming.

And I knew that's probably how you all feel.

And so I just focused on the little book education.

It doesn't have the specifics which we all want to know.

But that was a powerful read for a devotional read.

And I outlined it, typed it, You know, just those points that stood out in my mind.

I must have spent 4 months just for devotional time.

You could just read that over and over and recommend to anyone, a non-Christian, a non-member of our church, the book of education has those basic principles.

And I know that that book has been given to educators or to those accrediting our schools in the past.

And when they read that book, they said, if you go by that book, that's all we'll hold you to, is that book.

So anyway, I wanted to make that and give that encouraging word.

Well, to begin with today, I want to give a little questionnaire that had been given over 50 times in the last 20 years by the Moore Foundation to youth who are between the age of 11 and 15.

And this was the questionnaire for the youth.

They were to choose 2 things that were most important to them.

And I want you all to be thinking what you think they chose.

To get along with their age mates, you know, to be accepted by their peers.

Number 2, have a good relationship with their parents and their hopes for them.

Number 5, to be rich and have a dream car.

Now this was done 20 years ago instead of Corvette.

I don't know if boys still dream of Corvettes.

I know that's what my daughter wanted, was a truck.

So, repeat, did they choose to be accepted by their peers or have a good relationship with their parents or to graduate well from a school, get a degree or be happily married or have their dream vehicle or to be saved.

They've got to choose 2 things, so the students chose get along with their age mates as maybe number 2 or 1 of the 2?

To have a good relationship with their parents.

To graduate well, get a degree, be a successful student.

Now, if you're a Christian child, you're probably not going to admit such an ambition, But this was anonymous.

So, you know, if it's anonymous, you can put down what you really think.

Now, this was 20 years ago, but you know what it was?

Yeah, it would be interesting to give this test now, anonymous, to students.

Well, my point is, Kids want to have the companionship of their parents, but parents are busy, so they adapt, right?

And they're in school with their friends and spending the majority of their day, if they're in school, with their friends.

So it looks like that's their world and it probably is.

And if the students were over, let's see, 15, 15 to 19, there was sort of a toss-up between being happily married and what was the other, the good relationship with the parents.

And that would sort of make sense because they're now moving into a new home of their own.

So of course they want to have a happy home there with their new spouse.

So that's what I wanted to talk about was Number 1, as we look at the perfect parent, who is Jesus, and he was parenting his 12 disciples who had serious defects.

You know, as I was studying this, I was thinking, well, it was kind of easy.

You were having to deal with all that foolishness of children, you know, and fighting and, you know.

They were, you know, who's better, me first.

And when Jesus was finished, she only had 3 and a half years with them.

But then When Peter failed, they all failed miserably.

Boy, did they feel their need desperately.

But he gave them the Holy Spirit, the greatest gift.

I hadn't even thought of this, but I hope I don't cry.

When 1 of my daughters left home, I thought I had failed.

But those seeds were planted, and the Holy Spirit is still working in her heart.

And 1 day recently, she said to me, Mom, I only want to know God's will and do it.

I just, I have a prayer journal of Thanksgiving because I have to focus on Thanksgiving.

And every year we homeschool, we were battling.

I know why we were battling, because I had the same fault she had, And you probably do too with your kids.

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