The cross is a double-sided magnet which sits on the linear timeline of history at some point around 33 AD. All of the history that came before and all of the history that comes after is drawn to that one moment in real time when the horizontal collided with the vertical; when the physical entwined with the spiritual; and death brought life.
You see, humanity was doomed from the moment Evil caught the ear of Eve. Eve, who lacked for nothing, who quite literally had the Perfect life, thought she needed more. And as with every little impure thought that is left unchecked, thought grows to action, and so the story goes…“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened…” (Genesis 3:6-7)
“ ‘You will not certainly die,’ the serpent said to the woman.” (Genesis 3:4) But the serpent (Satan) was a liar and indeed death had come; but not just to Eve and her husband, but to all of mankind for all time; and not just a once-and-for-all physical kind of death, but an everlasting and eternal, God-separating, spiritual death. Additionally, the beautiful and harmonious relationship between God and man was severed, the simple companionship of husband and wife was harmed, and the very essence of nature was altered. And so, death reigned.
A Christian teacher believes that in light of this Truth, Christian education must seek to teach students not to “…be conformed to this world, but [to] be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” (Romans 12:2) Teaching from a Biblical worldview changes everything about education: the reliance on scripture, the responsibility to teach Truth with a capital “T”, the accountability to a Holy God, and the hope for a counter-cultural impact in the lives of students. A teacher cannot teach what they do not believe to be true and will teach what they believe to be true; this is world view. A Christian teacher, holding to a Biblical worldview, believes that the Bible tells the story of a real God who created real people in His own image, and that He sacrificed His only Son in real history, to redeem a lost world because of His great love for them.