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It
is the one business for which the earth exists.
To it all politics, all war,
all literature,
all money-making, ought to be subordinated;
and every parent
especially ought to feel, every hour of the day,
that, next to making his own
calling and election sure,
this is the end for which he is kept alive by
God
--this is his task on earth."
Quote by R. L. Dabney
Robert Lewis Dabney was a great American Christian theologian, a Southern Presbyterian pastor, and Confederate Army chaplain. He was also Chief of Staff and biographer for General Stonewall Jackson.
Dabney rightly saw God's perspective on education, which is a multi-generational vision of educating generations for Christ according to Psalm 78:4-7, Deuteronomy 6:5-7, and Matthew 28:18-20.
God has always assigned this greatest task, this most important business, to Christian parents; that is, to the family and the home, and never to the government or state. This is the primary purpose of every parent and the main reason that God gives parents the gift and stewardship of His children.
God our heavenly Father desires "godly offspring" (Malachi 2:15) and has commanded all Christian parents to "tell the generations to come the praises of the Lord" so that they should teach their children and their grandchildren "to put their confidence in God and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments (Psalm 78:5,7)." I encourage every Christian to meditate upon Psalm 78:1-11 before the Lord day after day for twenty-one days, asking the Spirit of Truth to give you a revelation of the mind of Christ regarding how to educate your children according to Christ, how to educate your children for God.
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." (Proverb 9:10) This is our foundational Scripture from Part 1.
In his book, The Fear of the Lord, John Bevere states: “Holy fear is the key to God’s sure foundation, unlocking the treasures of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.” This truth comes right out of Isaiah 33:6, “And HE shall be the sure foundation [stability] of your times, a wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is his treasure.”
Consequently, if we desire to live securely in these troubled times and teach our children and students how to do this, we must seek the Lord and ask Him to etch in our hearts and in their hearts - the holy fear of the Lord. We can only expect to receive this impartation and discernment that fears God if we are earnestly seeking God’s face (Jeremiah 29:11-14; 32:40) and spending time with Him in His Word. Then the Holy Spirit can reveal to us the fear of the Lord, for it truly is one of the manifestations of the Spirit of God (Isaiah 11:1-2).
There is an interlocking relationship between fearing God and loving God. In other words, we cannot truly love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength until we first learn to reverentially fear Him, and we cannot properly fear Him as we should until we first love Him. To fear God properly leads us to love Him wholeheartedly and appropriately. If fearing God is the beginning of wisdom and knowing God as He truly is, then loving God as He really is leads us to the fulfilling purpose of wisdom, which is to know Him intimately and is eternal life. In short, the love of God must be complemented with the fear of God.
God’s Word teaches us that we need to “Behold then the kindness and severity of God” (Rom 11:22). We are in danger of error and judgment when the doctrine of the love of God is not balanced properly with the doctrine of the fear of the Lord. As it says in Isaiah 66:2 and Jeremiah 5:22, a person who truly fears God will tremble at His Word and in His presence. Obviously, we cannot expect to be admitted into the presence of our glorious King with an attitude of disrespect. We learn to give God the reverence He deserves by pursuing the knowledge of the greatness of His glorious character. The greater our beholding of His glory is and the comprehension of His greatness, the greater our capacity for properly fearing Him and reverencing Him according to His divine order.
“Toward Your holy temple I will bow down in fear of You [in reverence for You].” Psalm 5:7
Finally,we must learn to approach God and serve Him acceptably, in reverence and godly fear (Heb 12:28). This is the KEY to acquiring wisdom and understanding, which will lead us to an intimate relationship with God. The holy and reverential FEAR OF THE LORD is absolutely required as the foundation for all true education.
All education that is not built on the fear of the Lord is built on the shifting sands of humanistic philosophies, and as such, will provide its students with a faulty foundation that will not stand the tests and trials of life. As an example, take a close look at the foundation of the modern American public school system: secular humanism. There is no way for a student to receive a truly godly education in the public school system because that system does not teach the fear of the Lord or the knowledge of the Holy One. In fact, state education exalts man above God and seeks to replace God with man. In such a corrupt system, God is ignored as totally insignificant, or worse, He is denounced as non-existent. Can such a system truly educate children? No, it is simply impossible, for the school system has destroyed the very foundation of all sound wisdom and understanding - the fear of the Lord and Jesus Christ. I pray that Christian parents who have their kids in public schools will wake up to this fact and see that they must in all good conscience remove their children from such an ungodly system that can never truly educate their children.
The final posting in this series, Part 3, will follow soon...
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” Prov 9:10
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Prov 1:7
A foundational principle in the Bible is: “the fear of the Lord” is the beginning of wisdom and of knowledge. All true learning and education must begin with the knowledge of God and the holy fear of the Lord.
In what is probably the oldest book in the Bible, and certainly one of the oldest verses in the Scriptures, we read:
“Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding? ….God understands its [wisdom’s] way; and He knows its place….Then He saw it and declared it; He established it and also searched it out. And to man He said, ‘Behold, the FEAR OF THE LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding’….With Him are wisdom and might; to Him belong counsel and understanding.” Job 28:12,23,27-28 and 12:13
What exactly is "the fear of the Lord?”
Noah Webster defines it as: “In good men, the fear of God is a holy awe or reverence of God and his laws, which springs from a just view and real love of the divine character, leading the subjects of it to hate and shun every thing that can offend such a holy being, and inclining them to aim at perfect obedience. This is filial fear [of the Lord].”
As we see in this definition and in the Scriptures above, the fear of the Lord is often coupled with the accompanying heart attitude and behavioral action of hating evil and departing from evil. Here are a few other Scriptures that show this important relationship:
“By lovingkindness and truth iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord, one keeps away from evil.” Prov 16:6 “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverted mouth, I hate.” Prov 8:13 “Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.” Prov 3:7
In light of these Scriptures, a more thorough definition would be: "The fear of the Lord"is to hate evil as much as God hates evil, and thereby to shun evil and turn away from evil so as not to offend such a holy being. This holy fear of God provides the conscience with the motive to be pleasing and obedient to God in everything, to turn away from evil, and to not give in to temptation.
The book of Proverbs makes it clear that “the fear of the Lord” is a godly virtue that must be valued, that must be chosen, that must be sought after, and that must be desired and searched for as for hidden treasure. Proverbs chapter two teaches how a disciple of Jesus can discern, cultivate, and find the fear of the Lord. Simply put, there is man’s part and there is God’s part, described in an “IF” condition followed by a “THEN” resulting reward. Man’s part is to actively cry out for discernment, to ask for understanding, and to seek for wisdom from God as silver and to search for her as for hidden treasure. This includes receiving God’s words and treasuring His commandments within one’s heart, actively listening to God’s wisdom, and inclining one’s heart to understanding.
In practical steps, this involves listening, reading, praying over, meditating upon, and memorizing God’s Word and God’s commandments. Christian parents need to model this to their children, practice it with them, and teach them this holy discipline of crying out for and searching for God’s hidden treasure of wisdom, knowledge, discernment, and understanding. This process can also be fostered, encouraged, modeled, and practiced in Christian home schools and in Christian day schools.
However, this invaluable spiritual and moral discipline cannot be modeled and taught in public schools which despise the fear of the Lord and the knowledge of the Holy One and which are built upon the shifting sandy foundations of secular humanism, socialism, and atheism. The fear of the Lord is a virtue that is the antithesis of everything the government schools stand for. The fear of the Lord is incompatible with humanism and the idolatry of man found in government schools.
God’s part, the “THEN” aspect of this principle, is to impart into the heart of the searching disciple the fear of the Lord, the knowledge of God, discernment, and understanding. It is the Lord alone who gives wisdom, and from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. In this whole process, the disciple of Jesus will discover the knowledge of God and will discern the fear of the Lord, righteousness, justice, equity, and discretion. God’s stored up wisdom will be poured out on the disciple so that wisdom will enter his heart, knowledge will become pleasant to his soul, discretion will guard him, and understanding will watch over him to deliver him from the evil way and from the perverted man and from the strange woman and the adulteress.
I will continue this message in Part 2 soon to follow...
American schools are the best funded in the world, yet out of 41 nations, American students consistently rank near or at the bottom in mathematics, physics, and science. Despite their failing, more than 80% of evangelical Christians place their children in government (public) schools, exposing them to moral, academic, and physical danger on a daily basis.
"To commit our children to the care of irreligious people is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves." - T. Dwight, Yale University President 1795-1817
I grew up on the mission field and spent 11 years in Afghanistan and four years in Iran. I observed that one of the first things missionaries abroad do is to start Christian schools to educate the local people and teach and disciple them in the truth and principles of God's Word. Yet, when I came back to America, I was shocked to discover that most Christian parents allow their children to be indoctrinated by the government schools' secular humanist and new age socialist agenda. This makes absolutely no sense to me and is completely contrary to the mandate of Scripture regarding the education of our children. I can't understand why American Christian missionaries value the education and discipleship of their converts overseas, but back at home, Christian parents demonstrate a serious lack of value and priority for the education and discipleship of their own children in a Biblical worldview and Christ-centered educational environment.
Christian parents, "See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to CHRIST." - Apostle Paul, Colossians 2:8
According to the Scriptures, according to our Lord and Master Teacher, Jesus Christ, and according to the prophets and the apostles of the Bible, education belongs to the family first, with assistance from the church. However, in America today the government has been permitted to usurp this vital role. Christian parents have abdicated their parental responsibility, authority, and duty, and given over their children to the world to be indoctrinated in creeds that are anti-Christian and hostile to their faith and to be brainwashed in moral relativism and humanistic socialism. Christian children who now graduate from public high schools are being surveyed regarding their worldview, and the evidence is showing that the vast majority of these "Christian" children are demonstrating that they have a secular humanist or socialist/Marxist worldview, rather than a truly Biblical worldview. Please see the PEERS trend chart above and the video clip below based on evidence is from the Nehemiah Institute.
The great Reformation leader, Martin Luther, warned Christian parents about this grave danger:
"I am much afraid that schools will prove to be great gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt."
Warning: Government schools are dangerous to the well being of your children!
The Biblical instruction of our children may be the thrust that God could use to restore American society and revive the nation. A fresh obedience by the Church to its God-ordained role in education, may be the catalyst for a third great awakening. I plead with you, dear Christian parent, to remove your children from the public school system and enter the promised land of home schooling or Christ-centered day schools in obedience to God and for the sake of your children who belong to God. Please, render to God the things that belong to God; render to God your precious children who deserve and require a truly Christian education.
For assistance with removing your children from the ungodly state usurper called the public school system and with learning more about how you can homeschool or partner with private Christian schools, contact the Exodus Mandate Project: www.ExodusMandate.org
When one seeks to learn what God says in the Bible about wisdom, understanding and discernment, he usually begins in the book of Proverbs. When we, as Christian parents, want to ask God for his wisdom regarding educating children God's way, we need to begin in the book of Proverbs as well.
The book of wisdom begins as follows:
"The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: to know wisdom and instruction, to discern the sayings of understanding, to receive instruction in wise behavior, righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the naive, to the youth knowledge and discretion, a wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel." 1:1-5
Now, ask yourself these two questions: For what purpose do I want to educate my children? And, what is the goal behind sending my children off to the public school for thirteen years?
Can you honestly answer, as Solomon answered above, that the purpose you send your children off to a government school to be "educated" is so that they will know wisdom and instruction, discernment and understanding, to receive instruction in wise behavior, righteousness, justice, and equity; to give your children prudence, knowledge, and discretion, and to make your children increase in learning and wise counsel? Before God, what is your real motive for institutionalizing your child?
Question: Is the government school system, which rejects the existence of God, which kicked God out of school 50 years ago, which threw out the Bible and the Ten Commandments, which forbids prayer to God, and which undermines your authority and the authority of God's Word on a daily basis - able to accomplish the goals of a truly godly and Biblical education that king Solomon describes above and that you desire for your child to receive in their education? No, it is impossible for an ungodly, anti-Christian, heathen, atheistic, humanistic, worldly school system to achieve the goals that Solomon declared and that Christian parents desire for their children. It is absolutely not possible. Those who think that public schools can achieve these results are deceived by the state or are self-deluded.
Next Question: How can Christian parents achieve the goals of true godly education that King Solomon describes?
The answer is found in Proverbs 1:7 and 9:10 which state:
"The FEAR OF THE LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction."
"The FEAR OF THE LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."
The KEY to a truly Biblical and godly education that leads to wisdom and knowledge is to begin with the right foundation:the FEAR OF THE LORD and the KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY ONE.
Question: Do government schools begin on this foundation?
Answer: No! There is no fear of the Lord or respect for God there. Do they pretend to? No! In fact, they vehemently state and demonstrate by their silence that God is not significant enough to even mention His Name or His being throughout the whole school year. In addition, they threaten to fire any teacher who dares to mention God or His Son or who dares to even quote from the Bible. How do I know this? I know this from personal experience, because when I was teaching in these government schools, I was threatened for doing just that and I lost my job at several public schools.
Question: Why do 85% of Christian parents hand over their kids to a godless, worldly, anti-Christian government institution day after day and year after year - to indoctrinate their children in creeds that are anti-Christian and completely opposite to the truth and wisdom of God and to indoctrinate them in moral relativism that teaches their kids that there are no moral absolutes and that teaches behaviors that are destructive and corrupt Christ-like character? Why do the vast majority of Christian parents subject their children to pagan public school indoctrination, all the while expecting them not to come home as ungodly pagans conformed to the world?
Answer: Because they are either ignorant of what God requires in His Word regarding the education of their children, or they are willfully disobedient to God's expressed will that Christian parents are responsible to provide their children with a truly Christ-centered education. Why is that? Some of the reasons include parents that have completely wrong priorities, wrong values, selfishness, greed, compromise with the world, and slothfulness. The sin of slothfulness is doing the easy thing, the comfortable thing, the convenient thing - rather than the right thing, the godly thing, the righteous thing.
Here's what King Solomon said would happen to those who refused to educate their children God's way and abdicated their responsibility and allowed the state to usurp that authority and duty:
"Wisdom shouts in the street...she utters her sayings: 'How long, O naive ones, will you love simplicity? And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge? Turn to my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you'.
"Because I called, and you refused...and no one paid attention; and you neglected all my counsel, and did not want my reproof; I will even laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes...like a storm, and your calamity comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.
"Then you will call on me, and I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me, BECAUSE they hated knowledge, and DID NOT CHOOSE THE FEAR OF THE LORD.
"They would not accept my counsel, they spurned all my reproof. So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be satisfied with their own devices. For the waywardness of the naive shall kill them, and the complacency of fools shall destroy them. But he who listens to me shall live securely, and shall be at ease from the dread of evil." Proverbs 1:20-33
This is a prophetic description of America's public school system today! All the darkness, evil, wrong, violence, immorality, illiteracy, poverty, dependence, and rebellion that we see in today's public school system is described right here by King Solomon 3,000 years ago. These are all the results of a nation that has turned its back on God and has expelled God from public education.
Dread has come upon our children and schools. Calamity has fallen on the schools. Distress and anguish are now a daily reality in public schools. The waywardness of the naive is killing our children morally, spiritually, and intellectually, and sometimes, even physically. The complacency of fools is now destroying our children in public schools.
Question: What is the reason for all of this distress, calamity, anguish, dread, destruction, killing, corruption, and death?
Answer: "BECAUSE THEY HATED KNOWLEDGE AND DID NOT CHOOSE THE FEAR OF THE LORD." Because they did not accept God's counsel and spurned His reproof. Therefore, they are now reaping what they sowed and eating of the fruit of their own humanistic and godless ways.
Question: What can Christian parents do today to save their children from such a horrible and destructive life and future?
*****Answer:***** Proverbs 2:1-12 gives the answer from God's mouth through King Solomon. If we take it to heart, remove our children from this godless system, repent, and take responsibility for educating our children God's way - either through home schooling or through Christian schools - then we can reclaim our children and put them into God's hands to save them, preserve them, and give them a future... BUT, we cannot expect God to save our children if we raise them contrary to His ways and allow the world to disciple them in moral relativism, spiritual relativism, multi-culturalism, and all kinds of dogmas and philosophies that are opposite of God's ways. That is the way of foolishness and unrighteousness and it leads to death and judgment. Christian parents must remove their children from public schools, once and for all, and never go back to the world and its ungodly ways to train their children. Proverbs 2:1-12 clearly teaches:
"My son, if you will receive my sayings, and treasure my commandments within you, make your ear attentive to wisdom, incline your heart to understanding; for if you cry out for discernment, lift up your voice for understanding; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
"THEN you will discern THE FEAR OF THE LORD, and discover the KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. For it is the LORD who gives wisdom; it is from His mouth that come knowledge and understanding; He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice, and He preserves the way of His godly ones.
"THEN you will discern righteousness and justice and equity and every good course. For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; discretion will guard you, understanding will watch over you, to deliver you from the way of evil..."
It's time to do the right thing, the righteous thing, and to start educating our children for God, in God's prescribed manner, according to His Word, His commandments, and His instructions.
This is further confirmation that one of the most important objectives of public schools is to UNDERMINE PARENTS AND USURP THEIR AUTHORITY in the lives of their children. The socialist "progressives" in control of government schools want to take the place of parents and indoctrinate what they consider "the state's children" in their socialist, statist, humanist ideology - which is really the state cramming their state religion down the throats of your children.
Listen up: When you send your Christian children off to be indoctrinated by the government and institutionalized by atheists and humanists,
you are giving them power, authority, complete influence, and permission to turn your own kids against you and against everything you believe and stand for, including, and especially, your Christian beliefs and Judeo-Christian values and morals.
Did you know that when you drop off your innocent children on the doorstep of your local public school, you actually are abandoning your parental authority over your children and you are giving that authority for the rest of the day to the government employees who will indoctrinate your kids? You can no longer object to what the state is teaching your kids during the day. You can no longer say, "I don't want my kid sitting in that assembly where they will be teaching homosexuality is normal."
This issue has been settled already in the courts and the verdict is in: when you leave your child at the government school, you have abandoned all of your parental rights over that child for the day and given that authority to the state to do whatever it thinks is in the best interest of that child (i.e. turn them into good little dumbed down socialist citizens who think like the world and agree with the government and make no waves).
Why in the world would you do such a foolish and destructive thing to your children?
If you do this, why are you surprised when your kids eventually lose all respect for you, challenge your authority and influence in their lives, and walk away from the Christian faith and God and church and the Bible?
Your action of institutionalizing your children in these government indoctrination centers called "public schools" is what caused them to eventually lose their faith, their character, their morals, their belief in God and moral absolutes, and to totally conform them to the world, rather than conforming them to Christ.
Do you really expect to hear the Lord say on the Judgment Day:
"Well done, good and faithful servant and parent?"
No! The truth will be exposed on that day, and your actions of condemning your children to a humanist and atheist based indoctrination camp will testify against you and you will be held accountable to God for what you did.
However, please know that it is never too late to truly repent to God and to your kids for what you have done, turn from your sin, remove them from this ungodly system, and start educating them according to God's way, according to the Bible, according to Christ as He mandates for all Christian parents to do. Repent now and turn away from public schools and DO THE RIGHT THING with your kids and for your kids. Your kids belong to God, and He will hold you accountable for how you raised them and how you educated them...
Here's the very best way that you can educate your children God's way:
HOME SCHOOLING, also known as Home Education or Home Learning.
It's time to call all Christian parents to remove God's children from the anti-Christian, ungodly, secular humanist government indoctrination camps called "public schools."
the truth is that one hour of Sunday school each week and maybe one hour of Christian training at home each week CANNOT undo or reverse the spiritual, moral, and intellectual damage and corruption of 14,000 seat hours of atheist, humanist, socialist, anti-Christian indoctrination by government teachers who function as priests of the religion of the state, which is secular humanism.
The Word of God to American Christian parents today is:
"LET MY CHILDREN GO!
REMOVE MY CHILDREN FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL INDOCTRINATION.
SEPARATE MY CHILDREN FROM THE WORLD AND BE HOLY,
FOR I AM HOLY AND I HAVE CALLED YOU AND MY CHILDREN TO BE HOLY."
What God desires and requires as His will is revealed in His Word in the Bible:
"Do NOT be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? ...Therefore, COME OUT from their midst and be separate, says the Lord..." 2 Corinthians 6:14-18
"Fathers...bring them [your children] up in the nurture and instruction of the Lord." Ephesians 6:4
"And do NOT be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind..." Romans 12:2
"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
"See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of man, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to CHRIST." Colossians 2:8
It's time to DO THE RIGHT THING!
Christian parents must repent for the sin of SLOTHFULNESS,
which is choosing to do the easy thing, the comfortable thing,
the convenient thing, rather than choosing to do the right thing.
Institutionalizing Christian children in atheistic and humanistic anti-Christian government indoctrination public schools is doing the easy thing, and is therefore the sin of slothfulness.
This sin of slothfulness is causing millions of Christian children to stumble and fall away from the faith, and the Lord will hold all such Christian parents accountable on a future day of judgment. At that time, there will be no place for excuses such as "I didn't know," or "I didn't realize how bad it was," or "I was too busy to notice," or "I couldn't afford to do anything else," etc.
Jesus warned us in the Gospels that the worst thing anyone on this earth can be is a stumbling block to children. In fact, in Matthew 18:6, Jesus said that it would be better for such a person to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the sea, than to cause one of His little ones who believe in Him to stumble. Woe to Christian parents who become stumbling blocks to their children by institutionalizing them in a humanist worldly ungodly school system that will destroy their children spiritually, morally, and intellectually.
Let him who has ears to hear, hear what the Spirit is saying to the church and especially to Christian parents.
If you are guilty, remember, it's not too late to repent, turn from your worldly ways, deliver your children from this ungodly system, and set them on the path of righteousness. I beg you, do the right thing. Do the righteous thing. Do the God required thing - for the sake of your children and grandchildren. God expects it, requires it, and is waiting for your obedience.
Choose life, choose righteousness, choose God's way...DO THE RIGHT THING!
SHOCKING FACT:88% of evangelical Christian children are leaving the church and walking away from the faith within two years of graduating from public schools.
WHY? The reason for this is that 85-90% of Christian parents in America have given their children over to Caesar to be indoctrinated by a secular humanist, socialist, anti-Christian worldview "public school" system that is completely contrary to everything that the Bible stands for, to what Christian parents say they believe, and to the values, moral absolutes, ethics, and principles Jesus Christ and of the biblical Judeo-Christian worldview.
The vast majority of Christian children in America are not being educated according to Christ and his commandments, are not being discipled in the truth God has revealed in His Word, and are not being taught and mentored by their parents (or even by godly Christian teachers) according to the Biblical Educational Mandate as found in Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Matthew 28:18-20, and Ephesians 6:4.
Please take a few minutes and watch this YouTube video that was recorded at a Southern Baptist Convention a few years ago. The second person at the microphone is Roger Moran from Missouri, and the third person with the yellow tie is Bruce Shortt of Texas.
The topic is the "culture war" going on all around us between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness, between righteousness and wickedness, between Christ and the false gods of statism, secular humanism, and socialism.
Roger Moran makes a good point when he says, "At what point are Southern Baptists going to rise up and say, 'Enough is enough!'?"
Bruce Stortt makes an excellent point when he says that the Southern Baptists want to "engage the culture," but what that really means is "an abject surrender to the culture!" He strongly disagreed with the leader of the convention who urged Christian parents not to remove Christian children from the public schools because that would mean removing a "Christian witness" from the schools.
However, the fact is that Christian children are being converted to the world in public schools rather than converting the world to Christ. The harsh truth is that we're losing almost 90% of these Christian children to the world and their salt is being neutralized and their light is being extinguished! Jesus told his mature, adult, trained disciples to be salt and light in a heathen society, not children. Nowhere in Scripture are children missionaries. For decades now, many Christians have believed in the "salt and light" rationalization, but what do we have to show for it? The shocking truth is that Christian children in public schools are not converting the heathen, but rather, the heathen are converting our Christian children.
Shortt points out that in the California public school system, all children, including kindergarteners, are being INDOCTRINATED to believe that homosexual, bi-sexual, and other sexually deviant lifestyles are moral, normal, and acceptable. Homosexuality is actively being mainstreamed in all government schools, starting from age five, and there are now over 3,000 school districts that have homosexual clubs in middle schools and high schools.
For an in-depth look at the immoral, unrighteous, anti-Christian, and destructive humanist indoctrination system called "public schools," please read Dr. Bruce Shortt's book, The Harsh Truth About Public Schools.
In his book, Dr. Shortt states:
"Contrary to what many Christians have been led to believe, there is no such thing as a 'neutral' education," Shortt writes. "All education is religious and conveys a worldview, and there is no more important decision that we make as parents than how we educate our children."
"Unfortunately, Christian parents allow an aggressively anti-Christian institution to form the minds of their children, and the fruit of that choice is bitter. The overwhelming majority of children from evangelical families leave the church within two years after they graduate from high school; only 9 percent of evangelical teens believe that there is any such thing as absolute moral truth; and, our children are being forcibly indoctrinated to believe that homosexual behavior is acceptable."
"Homeschool parents must have this book to minister to their Christian friends and neighbors, pastors and skeptical relatives. Our government-school habit is sowing the wind, and unless Christians turn from this gross sin we will reap a whirlwind that is unimaginable."
In his book, Shortt documents the dangers of public schools, saying the anti-Christian thrust of the governmental school system produces inevitable results such as "moral relativism (no fixed standards), academic dumbing down, far-left programs, near absence of discipline and the persistent but pitiable rationalizations offered by government education professionals."
Shortt urges pastors and Christian leaders to read the book so they might "understand why the church can no longer abdicate its historic role in the education of our children."
This book makes it clear why no Christian child should be left behind in government schools. "Our Christian children are perishing because parents and pastors lack knowledge. The information in this book exposes the 'salt and light' and the 'our schools are different' rationalizations for educating Christian children in pagan schools for the contemptible falsehoods they are."
"Any parent or pastor who genuinely desires to be faithful in the education of Christian children needs to find out what the public schools are actually doing, rather than relying on what they are saying they are doing or on memories of the public schools as they may have existed 10, 20 or 30 years ago."
Read more: On the 'sin' of sending kids to public school http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=28769#ixzz1Gd57bu00
