Last week the Bishop of Lewis opened with a service of dedication a small college chapel.  At a moving ceremony, the Lord’s similitude of the wise man who built a house on a rock was read.  The image speaks to young and old alike.  The rock of the words of Christ are a solid foundation for an individual’s life; they are a basis for education.  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

If Christian theism is true and and the Triune God is the Lord of all creation, the secular model of education is folly. The fear of the Lord is only the beginning, but it is the beginning of wisdom.  Without the fear of the Lord, education is not really begun.

This means that for Christian believers the Bible in education is not a luxury but a necessity.