Are You Teaching Your Children a Biblical Worldview?

How do you teach your children to see scripture in their everyday activities, sights, sounds, and doings? 
Many Christians have compartmentalized their spiritual life and their daily life…Work, parenting, friends and all are in one compartment and their spiritual life in in a compartment call church on Sunday. 

Today 88% of children raised in a Christian Home walk away from their faith never to return by the time they are 18.  This is a great problem in the United States today.  The U.S. was founded on Christian principles and is quickly losing sight of those principles.

Over the next several weeks, I will be re-reading Homeschooling from a Biblical Worldview by Israel Wayne.  I read this book a year or two ago, and gained a lot from it.  However, this is one of those books that will give you information you NEED every time you pick it up and crack the cover. 

I am not homeschooling because I hate the public school, or because I have an issue with a teacher.  I am homeschooling because God told my husband, BEFORE we were married that his children would be homeschooled.  Back then, I laughed…Today I celebrate.

In April, I got to meet Israel Wayne at the Midwest Parent Educator’s Convention in Kansas City.  Since then, Israel and I have chatted a bit on Facebook.  A couple of weeks ago, as I started rereading his book, I was posting quotes on Facebook. He noted this and gave me a pop quiz…YIKES!!

It started with this quote:

It is easy to overlook God’s purposes in homeschooling. We get so wrapped up in nonessentials that we forfeit the blessing God has for us. How do we keep from getting off track? We need a target. ~Israel Wayne From Homeschooling from a Worldview

Then there are a few comments and this:

Israel Wayne:  Betty Eisenhour: Pop quiz! So what is the target? 😉 (Put ya on the spot, didn’t I?) 😉

Betty Eisenhour Our target is to help our children become Godly adults, to serve others in order to serve Christ. To train them to think deeper, and longer on most modern issues, in order to see a Biblical answer. 😉 Well, and a whole lot more, but that is the short answer. 😉

And his response?  He liked it. 

In the last three weeks, we have barely cracked a text book.  However, the learning never stopped.  We canned, processed, baked and cooked a lot of food.  In all that cooking we kept talking about the way God provided us a way to feed the whole “herd’ through the winter, He has given us wisdom to find safe ways to preserve the food.  He has given us nutritional food to help us stay healthy. He has allowed me to teach that our food doesn’t come from a package on a shelf, but from Him, through is awesome and amazing creation.  We covered fractions, nutrition, science of bacteria and mold, weights, writing instructions, reading instructions, the importance of time, and a good work ethic. 

By taking time to use God’s classrooms, and talking about Him as we use them, we can be sure our children are gaining a Biblical Worldview of the world around them, rather than compartmentalizing everything they come across.

For more on Homeschooling with a Biblical Worldview, I highly recommend Israel Wayne’s Book Homeschooling from a Biblical Worldview.

How do you insure that your children are learning from a Biblical Worldview?