Comments on: What am I offering? http://skifoozle.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/what-am-i-offering/ living for an audience of One Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:44:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mk http://skifoozle.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/what-am-i-offering/#comment-15 mk Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:48:12 +0000 http://skifoozle.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-15 Hey there, I was just teaching about this. . . 19th c. pastor-theologian, Horace Bushnell, was troubled by the same things you (rightly, imho) express. Here is what he said, for what it's worth (sorry for the cumbersome insertion of inclusive language, but just wanted to be clear that we're talking about girls too :) . . . ) "What is the true idea of Christian education? That the child is to grow up a Christian, and never know (her/him) self as being otherwise. In other words, the aim, effort and expectation should be, not, as is commonly assumed, that the child is to grow up in sin, to be converted after (she/he) comes to a mature age; but that (she/he) is open on the world as one that is spiritually renewed, not remembering the time when (she/he) went through a technical experience, but seeming rather to have loved what is good from (her/his) earliest year." _Christian Nurture_, p. 10. Hey there, I was just teaching about this. . . 19th c. pastor-theologian, Horace Bushnell, was troubled by the same things you (rightly, imho) express. Here is what he said, for what it’s worth (sorry for the cumbersome insertion of inclusive language, but just wanted to be clear that we’re talking about girls too :) . . . )

“What is the true idea of Christian education? That the child is to grow up a Christian, and never know (her/him) self as being otherwise. In other words, the aim, effort and expectation should be, not, as is commonly assumed, that the child is to grow up in sin, to be converted after (she/he) comes to a mature age; but that (she/he) is open on the world as one that is spiritually renewed, not remembering the time when (she/he) went through a technical experience, but seeming rather to have loved what is good from (her/his) earliest year.” _Christian Nurture_, p. 10.

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