Fellow teachers, our challenge is to proclaim the good news of Jesus so clearly and consistently that no kid of ours will ever place him in a category with typical religious leaders. Our calling is to be good-news fanatics. I stress this because if I don’t, someone will hear me talk of teaching about Jesus and get the wrong idea. They will think, “Yes, we ought to teach kids to be like Jesus and to follow his example.” This would be typical religion. What a tyrant Jesus would be if he lived a perfect life and then, as his main message, told us to be like him. What a setup for failure! What
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