How can we affirm this Cascade of Transformation? The Good News pours into crevices and to rivers and oceans, flowing out to more and more people and places. When God is doing the work, nothing stops it. Look at the disciples: Jesus left them, and Christianity spread to millions and millions. ” We look forward to God transforming lives and neighbourhoods, cities and nations. We hope we will see God “pour out water on the thirsty land and streams on dry ground. We hope and pray that God will grow fruit from our work, “some hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty,” as Jesus says in Matthew 13:23. Pillar four tells us that “Transformation cascades from the individual to communities and beyond.” We affirm it and we hope for it and like the mountain stream, we mostly watch as it cascades to larger places. They are rich in possibility as we live out transformational education and pray that God uses them.īut then we get to pillar four. These three pillars are things we can work at. Pillar two talks about the Spirit using excellent educational environments-our “teaching methods.” And pillar three notes that transformation happens in the heart-mind before behavior-a reminder to always “know your learner” and how learning works. Pillar one is about pursuing the Creator’s design while trusting the Spirit for complete transformation into the image of Christ-essentially our “teaching objective,” what we want to happen in a learner. We looked at how transformational education works and what we can do to help it along, knowing that the Holy Spirit brings about transformation, not us. We explored the first three “pillars of transformational education” this year. Our fourth pillar for transformational education is about cascading, and the streams falling out of the mountain help me understand. There is a power that is beyond me and that I can’t control. I can’t hear anything but the water it splashes and roars over and over but never the same as the moment before. Sitting along a roaring creek in an unknown little corner brings peace and perspective. Tucked in crevices on the mountains are hundreds of waterways that cascade from the high mountain lakes and melting snow to the Arkansas River, flowing towards the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. Dana and I have hiked from above tree line to the whitewater of the Arkansas River. One of my favourite moments is sitting beside a rushing stream in the mountains of Colorado.
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