Healing Christian Education

If the cross of Christ put an end to our need to perform, then addressing the needs of "poor performing" students is not even the right question to begin our work. We do not need to make "poor performing" students (or schools) "high performing" students (or schools); the death and resurrection of Jesus accomplished the highest performance for us all. So we have a few choices: 1. Live with our broken and sinful hearts and use them as a reason for our struggling performance; label our brokenness and our sin - and then live from the false identities they give us. 2. Live with our broken and sinful hearts, but try real hard. This usually looks like self-effort, pride, behavior modification, motivation systems, occasionally making excuses, and sometimes even shaming and blaming. 3. Believe that Jesus died to give us a new heart and trade our broken ones for His; learn to live from our new hearts - the one He died to give us and is waiting for us to receive by faith; He can't wait until we try our new hearts out in a life of faith. Die to self and let Christ live in us.