Where to Begin - & - Character Definitions
Greetings from Me and My House,
Our L.E.D. elist began in Oct. 2000, after we discontinued our general Me and My House newsletter. This was our first post, answering 2 questions that were asked.
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Q - Where do I begin?
A - In renewing *your* mind! In order to educate our children in the
Spirit, we must first be transformed from our old humanistic thoughts of
education that we grew up with and have become part of our thought
processes. We must seek God and His Word to know where our thinking is not just the wrong thoughts, but know that the wrong thought comes from wrong thinking processes. God says there is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof is death. There is a big difference between the Biblical (Hebrew) way of thinking of education and Greek (humanistic/pagan) way of thinking. Obviously, the world's educational system is built upon the Greek thinking pattern.
If we try to make changes in what we do with our kids, before/without
renewing our thought processes, we will always feel like what we're doing is inadequate - because the goals, methods, focus, everything is different. It will be dead legalism - we're doing it because we know inside that it's the right thing, but we never think it's adequate and never have peace with it, because it doesn't line up with our Greek/humanistic
presuppositions/worldview/way of thinking. It is not of the Spirit so it
only brings a different kind of bondage and not freedom.
For more info see "Renewing Your Mind"
http://me-and-my-house.org/cv-renew1.htm
We will have more to say about Hebrew vs. Greek thinking in future posts.
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Q - What do you use for your character definitions?
A - Most of our definitions come from the Character books put out by IBLP (Bill Gothard). _Character Clues_ is a game based on the character definitions; so they can all be found there. Some also we have adapted, written our own, or taken from _Developing Character_ by Beverly Caruso (who also recommends the IBLP books, so some definitions are the same.) Check http://iblp.org for their books/game. You will find the _Character Clues_ game, as well as a couple of our favorite resources _Character Sketches_ and _Character Booklets_.
Our L.E.D. elist began in Oct. 2000, after we discontinued our general Me and My House newsletter. This was our first post, answering 2 questions that were asked.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Q - Where do I begin?
A - In renewing *your* mind! In order to educate our children in the
Spirit, we must first be transformed from our old humanistic thoughts of
education that we grew up with and have become part of our thought
processes. We must seek God and His Word to know where our thinking is not just the wrong thoughts, but know that the wrong thought comes from wrong thinking processes. God says there is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof is death. There is a big difference between the Biblical (Hebrew) way of thinking of education and Greek (humanistic/pagan) way of thinking. Obviously, the world's educational system is built upon the Greek thinking pattern.
If we try to make changes in what we do with our kids, before/without
renewing our thought processes, we will always feel like what we're doing is inadequate - because the goals, methods, focus, everything is different. It will be dead legalism - we're doing it because we know inside that it's the right thing, but we never think it's adequate and never have peace with it, because it doesn't line up with our Greek/humanistic
presuppositions/worldview/way of thinking. It is not of the Spirit so it
only brings a different kind of bondage and not freedom.
For more info see "Renewing Your Mind"
http://me-and-my-house.org/cv-renew1.htm
We will have more to say about Hebrew vs. Greek thinking in future posts.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Q - What do you use for your character definitions?
A - Most of our definitions come from the Character books put out by IBLP (Bill Gothard). _Character Clues_ is a game based on the character definitions; so they can all be found there. Some also we have adapted, written our own, or taken from _Developing Character_ by Beverly Caruso (who also recommends the IBLP books, so some definitions are the same.) Check http://iblp.org for their books/game. You will find the _Character Clues_ game, as well as a couple of our favorite resources _Character Sketches_ and _Character Booklets_.
posted by Lisa @Me and My House @ 10/03/2000 06:11:00 PM
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