‘Good Teacher?’ Lessons from the Classroom of Christ

'No one is good except God alone.'" A first lesson of how to be a good teacher that we can learn from Jesus is this Good teachers ultimately lead all questions back to Christ.

Good teachers ultimately lead all questions back to Christ.

Now, we're going to see how Jesus did this here in this example in just a moment here.

But first, let the point be clear.

Whether the topic is science, sociology, physical education, what happened at the game this last week, and whatever it is, all questions arising need to ultimately, sooner or later, be led back to an invitation to accept Christ as creator, Lord, and Savior.

Now, this is extremely important.

Christ is the ground of all being, and therefore Christ is the ground of all meaning.

In other words, whether you are in a physics class here at Andrews University or in the homeschool living room somewhere, whatever the topic is, if it means something, the only reason it means something is because Christ is.

Christ is the source of all being.

Christ is the source of all meaning.

And therefore, logically, any question that comes our way, sooner or later, we need to be bringing it back around to the only one who has the full answer.

The speed of light may be, what, 186,282 miles per hour in a vacuum? What is that, 300,000 kilometers per hour or per second? Yes.

But the only reason that's true is because Jesus made it so.

Jesus is the ground of all meaning, and therefore everything that we do in education as teachers in the classroom or outside of it needs to lead back to Christ.

Now, Christ does this here, and this is not the only time.

He does it with this man here.

He did it with the woman at the well, John chapter 4.

You remember that the conversation went a number of directions, and they talk about living water and the number of husbands that she has had, et cetera.

And then at the end, Jesus brings it back to himself, I who speak to you am he.

And perhaps one of the most famous examples, Nicodemus.

You know, this powerful Jewish religious ruler comes to Jesus at night and begins to ask questions and very quickly realizes he's out of his depth.

He says, well, how can these things be? And Jesus says, you are Israel's teacher, but you don't understand these things.

And ultimately, Jesus brings it back to himself, and he says, just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man, that's Jesus, must be lifted up that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

Good teachers bring it back to Jesus sooner or later.

Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, make no mistake.