What? Me Change? Last week: Who Are We, Really?

Hope’s Goal To create a different kind of people WHY? Because the world needs a different kind of people, the kind God designed. He desires it.

What’s Our Problem? The World We don’t know enough The Solution? Education The Bible We aren’t good enough Rom. 3:23 The Solution? Surrender of our wills to the lordship of Christ through the Holy Spirit

Educational Model 3 realms of learning: –Knowledge –Skill –Character Learning is acquired from teachers Ideas are inserted into the mind Learners should apply new ideas to problematic situations to achieve more desirable outcomes

Some examples… Math Homosexual movement Racism Environmentalism Bible stories

QBQ: Definition How do you know if you’ve learned? If you haven’t… CHANGED, You haven’t… LEARNED.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. -C.S. Lewis

Deut 5:29 Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!

Heart Hebrew word is leb the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything (Strong’s) Heart controls all the realms of learning

2 Supreme Actions for My Heart Defense Prov 4:23 “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” If I don’t defend my heart, it will be invaded, & it will impact my entire life because my heart is the control center. Development Ps 90:12 “Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” I must order my life so that the control center of my life is conformed to the ways of God.

How I think things work What I think is important

Decisions Made in the heart These include what kind of learning to do. What knowledge? Which skills?

How God sees the world What God thinks is important How I think things work What I think is important

A New Kind of People Make decisions from God’s perspective and His values So they operate out of a framework of “doing love” As these decisions are made over and over in an atmosphere of correction, love becomes our character, who we are rather than just what we do

How Do I Change? Next Week