Heart Training

Heart change will bring about a life change.

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Heart change is the goal of all discipline. Ultimately, we want students to obey God, and from that obedience will flow respect, care and love toward others.

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The student is more important than rules. When rules are broken, the focus is on loving the student and transforming the heart.

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Students will be encouraged to be like Christ through discipline that is

• Reasonable

• Related

• Respectful and

• Redemptive.

 

Two fundamental truths are:

• Only God can know the heart

• Only God can change the heart.

 

Obedience should always be:

• Immediate

• Complete

• Without Complaint

• Without Challenge

 

Some additional principles are:

• Rules without relationship lead to rebellion.

• Shaming a child when they sin pushes them to hide the sin rather than deal with it.

• Discipline must be self-less, not personal.

• The behavior must always be addressed as well as the deeper motivations (heart) behind it.