Intro to a Theology of Family Education uncovers Scripture’s vision for nurturing faith across generations—from covenant promises to Abraham (Gen 17) and Torah transmission in homes (Deut 6:4–9) to Christ’s welcome of children (Mark 10) and ecclesial kinship (Eph 6:1–4)—as integral to God’s mission of reconciling all things. Students explore family as primary discipleship community, tracing redemptive patterns of blessing, discipline, and restoration. Through exegesis and reflection, participants craft grace-shaped practices for parenting, mentoring, and household worship that advance missio Dei, resist cultural distortions, and foster lifelong love for Christ in everyday rhythms.
Intro to a Theology of Family Education equips Christian educators to integrate home and classroom as seamless arenas of God’s reconciling mission. By rooting pedagogy in covenantal promises (Gen 17), Torah rhythms (Deut 6), Christ’s child-embrace (Mark 10), and mutual honor (Eph 6), aspiring teachers craft restorative practices that counter cultural fragmentation. Through exegesis and reflection, they gain grace-saturated strategies for mentoring parents, discipling students, and weaving worship into daily life, fostering resilient families and lifelong Christ-love that extend kingdom flourishing beyond school walls.
Intro to a Theology of Family Education uniquely equips education students by revealing the home as Scripture’s primary classroom for God’s mission, from Abrahamic covenants to Christ’s child-welcoming kingdom. While methods courses hone skills and psychology courses map development, this course anchors pedagogy in redemptive family rhythms—blessing, discipline, restoration—that shape eternal souls. It empowers teachers to partner with parents, counter cultural erosion, and weave worship into learning, ensuring every lesson disciples generations for missio Dei rather than merely transmitting information.
The course integrates a biblically-based approach by rooting family discipleship in Scripture's redemptive narrative—from covenantal promises to Abraham (Gen 17) and Torah's home-centered transmission (Deut 6:4–9) to Christ's child-embrace (Mark 10) and mutual honor (Eph 6:1–4). This equips participants to steward intergenerational faith through grace-filled engagement, trinitarian relationality, and creation-honoring practices, transforming households into missional outposts of reconciliation, justice, and kingdom flourishing across cultures and communities.
The course integrates a missionally-driven ethos by framing households as vital arenas for God’s missio Dei, nurturing sentness through covenantal promises (Gen 17) and Torah’s intergenerational transmission (Deut 6:4–9). Participants embrace lifestyles of incarnational parenting, Spirit-empowered practices like household worship, and persevering witness amid cultural challenges, equipping parents and mentors for lifelong leadership. This transforms family rhythms into compassionate outposts of reconciliation, justice, and kingdom flourishing, affirming vocational calling in Christ’s reconciling mission.
The course integrates a contextually-informed approach by equipping participants to embody incarnational living in diverse family settings, drawing from covenantal transmission (Deut 6:4–9) and Christ’s child-embrace (Mark 10). Through cultural awareness, worldview analysis, and intercultural evaluation, they recognize local demographics, values, and dynamics—racial, ethnic, social—to tailor discipleship practices. This fosters humble, empathetic parenting and mentoring that advance God’s reconciling mission, bridging divides and nurturing kingdom flourishing in varied households and communities.
The course integrates an interculturally-focused approach by grounding household discipleship in Scripture's embrace of diversity—from imago Dei equality (Gen 1:27) and Pentecost's linguistic unity (Acts 2) to Paul's contextual adaptability (1 Cor 9:19–23) and Revelation's global worship (Rev 7:9). Participants assess ethnocentric biases in parenting, hone empathetic communication for multicultural or blended families, foster humble connections through radical hospitality, and cultivate resilient dispositions like adaptability and self-awareness, equipping mentors to disciple diverse generations in God's reconciling mission.
The course integrates a practically-minded ethos by translating Scripture’s covenantal rhythms—Abrahamic promises (Gen 17) and Torah transmission (Deut 6:4–9)—into actionable strategies for household discipleship, ethical parenting, and justice-advancing mentorship. Through research-informed reflection, critical storytelling, and micro-to-macro engagement—from family devotions to community reconciliation—participants bridge faith with diverse realities, fostering vocational excellence, restorative mercy, and prophetic witness that equips believers for redemptive, everyday service in God’s mission.
The course integrates an experientially-transformed approach by immersing participants in Scripture’s covenantal rhythms—Abrahamic promises (Gen 17) and Torah transmission (Deut 6:4–9)—through cycles of reflection, dialogue, and embodied praxis in household settings. Fostering professional curiosity, comprehensive knowledgeability, and open-minded discernment, it cultivates personal responsibility and balanced spontaneity, transforming participants into humble stewards of God’s reconciling mission via immersive journaling, communal debriefs, and adaptive family worship, yielding lifelong, Spirit-attuned discipleship
