Jesus in a Christian School

Recently, as I have considered my future I have put a great amount of thought into the possibility of striving to become a Christian school Bible teacher. My ideal career would be to teach in the States for a few years and eventually go abroad. Anyway, coming from a Christian school myself, I have developed many thoughts on how it is constructed. I also get some interesting reactions from my fellow alumni for desiring this career. The question could be asked, why would I want to teach Bible where it overwhelms the students multiple times a day and multiple days a week? Here are my thoughts:

1. Against common assumption, not all Christian school attenders follow Christ much less believe in their hearts that He is Lord. They need Jesus.

2. Many if not most of the students don't truly know what it means to follow Christ. This is what I call ignorance. I realize that by saying this I take the risk of coming across as if I know what it truly means to follow Christ. However, I don't believe ignorance is black and white. We all run back and forth on a scale of ignorance. My point is that when Christ calls us He calls us to come and die, He calls us to be passionate. He calls us to lay aside everything, pick up our crosses and follow Him to a spiritual and, at times, a physical death. Students may hear this without fully understanding it because it is so easy to remain oblivious to the chains and the deaths of our brothers and sisters in Christ that are happening right now. An estimated 160,000 Christians are martyred a year, just read the countless stories on persecution.com or christianpersecution.info. Right now, people are literally passionately following Christ to the death. I have come to understand this to a point but I remain ignorant because I have not shared their chains nor experienced their pain. I am not saying that to truly follow Christ you need to go physically die a bloody death, that is legalism. But I am saying that there is a radical faith and love to Christianity that can be hidden through a Christian school education. Instead of presenting Christianity as merely a religion or a safety net it should be presented through stories of passion including the most passionate one of all.

3. Continuing on the topic of ignorance, I believe teenagers can be unaware of the need for Jesus in the world. People we know personally and people we'll never meet are dying inside and out. Currently, we are unaware of each others' secret emotional pains and we can easily remain oblivious to the physical pains of the world. So, it is no surprise that many don't seem to care about people's spiritual needs seeing that there seems to be a lack of passion for taking care of others' physical needs.

4. A friend of mine pointed out to me that the Bible is presented as a textbook. I agree with this statement. The Word is a sword, it is living and active and we must learn how to use it before we cause harm

So those are some thoughts. They may be slightly disorganized but that's because I'm in a hot room and it's almost 1 o'clock in the morning. Anyway, Christian schooling is a very unique ministry that I would love to be a part of. I hope to continue learning and growing so that I'm not as much of a hypocrite when I teach. Pretty much, I hope to bring awareness to the passionate death that we are called to and the full life that it brings and I can't do it without Christ in me. After all, Christ said in John 10:10, "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." If you read all of this...i hope it made sense.