Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In today's episode, Paul wants to help anyone involved in a Christian school, from teachers to parents,

effectively manage the education of children from a Christian school, from teachers to parents, effectively manage the education

of children from a biblical perspective, specifically as it relates to the process of transformation

in the life of these children. It's a process, not an event. Today's content comes from

Paul's conference material, your Christian school, a culture of grace. If you're interested in hearing more

on this topic, you can purchase the full conference at paultrip.com slash school. Here's Paul Tripp

on running a Christian school. Well, we've been looking at this concept of treasure, the concept of

assigned value.

And this passage in Matthew 6 has these three wonderful principles.

The first one is this, that everyone lives for some kind of treasure.

That child in your classroom is speaking and acting

and choosing in pursuit of something.

He's a human being.

He wants something out of his world.

Maybe the thing that really wires him is acceptance.

And he's in that classroom.

It's not an educational environment for him.

It's an acceptance buffet.

And so everything he does is driven by acceptance, frankly, he'd much rather be the attention of the group and get seven laughs than learn.

He's not actually on your page, because what's ruling his heart is a desire for acceptance.

Or maybe it's just avoidance of difficulty.

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