Session 4 Education Mountain 7M Culture Shaping MasterClass
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This document provides an overview of a masterclass session on reclaiming the education mountain for God. It discusses how the United States has removed God from public education over time, leading to a decline in morality. To reclaim the education mountain, individuals need to get involved in their local public schools through activities like developing Bible-based curriculum. Success would look like greater acceptance of biblical truths in education and an education system that addresses both the mind and spirit. The document encourages Christians to engage culture from a foundation of truth.
Session 4 Education Mountain 7M Culture Shaping MasterClass
- 1. WELCOME! 7M Culture-Shapers M A S T E R C L A S S Os Hillman M A S T E R C LA S S Session 4
- 3. LOGO
- 4. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. —Mark 12:30
- 5. New England Primer The New England Primer was first published between 1688 and 1690 by English printer Benjamin Harris, who had come to Boston in 1686 to escape the brief Catholic ascendancy under James II. Used for 200 years.
- 6. Supreme Court Challenge Using Bible verses to teach English and morality in public schools was challenged in 1844. There were three different cases that upheld the use of the Bible for that specific use in public schools, one being a Supreme Court case of 1844,Vidal v. Gerard, where a Philadelphia school wanted to teach morals without using the Bible.
- 7. Supreme Court Challenge The Court said, “Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament, without note or comment, be read and taught as a divine revelation in the college; its general precepts expounded, its evidences explained, and its glorious principles of morality inculcated?” The court concluded that any book teaching good morality would certainly be teaching what the New Testament teaches, so why not use the original source that doesn’t change.”
- 8. Daniel Webster, in his July 4, 1800, Oration at Hanover, New Jersey: “To preserve the government we must also preserve morals. Morality rests on religion; if you destroy the foundation, the superstructure must fall. When the public mind becomes vitiated and corrupt, laws are a nullity and constitutions are waste paper.”
- 9. The Engel v Vitale Supreme Court case of 1962 was the landmark case that removed prayer from the public schools.
- 10. The single most act that has changed our educational system in America has been the removal of school prayer in 1963.
- 11. John Dewey, regarded as the architect of modern education, instigated early changes to move away from God in education, which led to promoting a belief in no absolute truth: “ . . . faith in the prayer-hearing God is an unproved and outmoded faith. There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes.”
- 12. The Moral Decline in Education A comparison of the top disciplinary problems of 1940 compared to 1990. 1940 • Talking out of turn • Chewing gum • Making noise • Running in the halls • Cutting in line • Dress code infractions • Littering 1990 • Drug abuse • Alcohol abuse • Pregnancy • Suicide • Rape • Robbery • Assault
- 13. How could God allow…? Break down of the Family Mountain.
- 14. Source: Wikipedia 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s School Shootings by Decade (Conclusion: God’s Protection Removed?) 79 Prayer removed From schools 1963 2017 244 When we kick God out of schools, we also remove his protection.
- 15. Violence in Schools Have we removed God’s shield of protection over our schools for kicking God out of our schools corporately? Satan is a legalist. City of Ai.
- 16. Harvard The motto of the University adopted in 1692 was “Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae” which translated from Latin means “Truth for Christ and the Church.”
- 17. The motto of the University is “In lumine Tuo videbimus lument”, which means “By Your Light - We Shall See Light” (based on Psalm 36:9). Columbia University 1755 5th university
- 18. Truth Project
- 19. Our nation’s motto is In God We Trust but we cannot pray at public events.
- 20. Harvard
- 21. 1 Corinthians 16:9 For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
- 23. Harvard
- 24. Cultural Giants of Our Day and Biblical Worldview
- 25. Postmodernism “It’s all about me.” i.e. Financial Crisis. “I want it now.” - consumer “I’ll write risky business.” – banks and mortgage co’s
- 26. Next Generation
- 27. Today’s Cultural Covenant? Covenant of Tolerance “I won’t tell you what to do as long as you don’t tell me what to do.”
- 28. Relativism Tolerance – “You believe what you want as long as it does not affect me.” Emerging generation: – “My truth is as good as your truth.”
- 29. 58 percent of students said colleges should “forbid” speakers “who have a history of engaging in hate speech,” with hate speech defined as “anything one particular person believes is harmful, racist, or bigoted.” Oh, and almost 40 percent believed it was sometimes acceptable to shout down or disrupt a speaker. Source: Yale Survey, 800 college students, October 2017
- 30. Next Generation Relativism Among people under the age of 25, among whom more than four out of five (82%) said they develop their own combination of beliefs rather than adopt a set proposed by a church. Barna Research 2009
- 31. Belief in Absolute Truth 76% of Americans say there is no absolute truth. 67% of born-again Christians say there is no absolute truth.
- 32. If the Foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Ps 11:3
- 33. So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. Ezekiel 22:30
- 34. If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chron 7:14
- 35. 84% of Christian 18 to 29-year-olds admit that they have no idea how the Bible applies to their field or professional interests. ---Barna Group,June, 2012.
- 36. One Man’s Campaign - 2005
- 37. Summary • Our nation is removing its moral compass in governing. • “Tolerance” is the God of our culture today. • God removes his veil of protection as we remove Him from the foundations of a nation. He gives us leaders reflecting our values being expressed. • The Church must take responsibility.
- 38. What can I do as one individual to make an impact for God on the education mountain? What can you do in the following areas of education to reclaim the education mountain? Chuck Stetson developed The Bible and Its Influence, a 390- page textbook now taught in more that three hundred schools in forty-one states. What impact can you have in your community’s public schools?
- 39. What can I do as one individual to make an impact for God on the education mountain? The goal of education should be to equip your young people to engage the world and influence culture. How can you support this vision?
- 40. What would success look like on the education mountain? • There would be more acceptance of biblical absolutes and recognition of the value the Bible can bring to the classroom. • There would be less concern about politically correct behavior regarding faith expressed in the public classroom. • Creationism would be affirmed and taught instead of Darwinism.
- 41. What would success look like on the education mountain? • There would be an acknowledgment of our Christian heritage in the founding of our nation. • • We would evaluate and embrace truth based on truth instead of allowing biases to influence what we believe. • There would be excellence demonstrated in the art of teaching. • More people would be in the teaching profession because they are called to it.
- 42. What would success look like on the education mountain? • Teachers would model a worldview that reflects a belief that every human being has the potential to become a great person with a unique contribution to offer humanity. • We could live in a pluralistic society and still honor other viewpoints without the insecurity to conform or defend. Christians would operate in a pluralistic setting from a foundation of truth with confidence and greater impact. • There would be less time spent disciplining in the classroom and more time learning.
- 43. What would success look like on the education mountain? • Education would address both mind and spirit. • There would be divine insights into the design of creation so science and technology research would yield advances in every arena: technology and science would impact cures, food production, environmental recovery, travel and communication, and so forth—ultimately more creativity and innovation in all fields of education
- 44. This week’s interview access in Teleseminar Area Cindy Marks
Editor's Notes
- #6: The New England Primer was first published between 1688 and 1690 by English printer Benjamin Harris, who had come to Boston in 1686 to escape the brief Catholic ascendancy under James II. Based largely upon his earlier The Protestant Tutor, The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in the colonial and early days of United States history. It was used in what would be our first grade for two hundred years.
- #29: No moral absolutes “Jesus is the only way!?” – “You’re a bigot”
- #37: Four legislatures—Georgia in 2006, South Carolina and Texas in 2007, and Tennessee in 2008—have passed legislation based on the research that Chuck’s organization did to encourage high schools to offer courses to their high school students on Bible literacy. Stetson represents a new breed of change agents who seek to use the media and the existing educational system to present a logical reason to show how Judeo-Christian history has impacted our culture and the value it offers for educators. His strategy has been very effective.