Church and Education

It is interesting that you should post this in that my wife was just speaking to another homeschooling mother in our church last night, and together they are going to start co-oping together sharing some of the responsibility for homeschooling by dividing the teaching of various courses where the other is strongest. We have done other homeschooling co-ops in the past and they've worked very well for us.

 

I agree with you 100%. Our older two (44 and 39) had some home schooling but mainly Christian school, which both graduated from. Our 14 year old had one year of Christian school and the rest the time she has been home schooled

I think it would be good. But keep in mind not all SBC Churches are in favor of Christian schools. Our church has been working to open a Christian school for the past few years.

 

I am not at all concerened about public schools. I teach at a major university and make it clear that I am a Christian. I find most of the Christians in my classes to be very weak. It is shocking at how weak the churches are they come from . It is a well known fact that the Bible literacy rate is going down. There is only one camp to blame for that. The Christians I see on campus who are the strongest did not have Christian parents and came to know Christ through a student in a parachurch organization.

You asked a good question that has nothing to do with the public schools. "Do we expect our children to do something we won't do?" You have got to know that most pew sitters do not share their faith. Imagine that happening in countries where the Christians are persecuted?

In the parachurch organization I was in as a student I do not know of one person who had never shared their faith but I know some from seminary days who had gone to a Christian college who said that they had never shared their faith before that time. One seminary student I knew said that her dad was an ordained deacon in the local church and she had never seen him share his faith.

In one SBC church I pastored there had been a regular practice of inviting the Mormon bishop to teach.

If you want to see the strongest Christians then go to where there is the most persecution. I remember well when I was a young college student and heard some of the stories coming from the mouths of freshmen who had just come from countries where Christians were persecuted. I never saw one of them ever lacking boldness.

I blame nothing on the public but rather what goes on in private in the churches and homes of Christians.

Jesus sent His disciples into the world to share their faith and make disciples, not build Christian schools.

To think that education solves the issues is to think like Bill Clinton.

 

How very true.

 

I should add that I am not a big fan of the public school but it is not the Church's duty to have such.
In my church there are kids in public, christian and home schools.
I have seen strong Christians come out of each. I have seen rebellious kids come out of each.
The method of education is certainly not the solution.
That said, it does matter where you put your kids. It is an important decision for parents to make but one that does not have a one size fits all solution.

 

Some of the strongest Christians I have met were educated in communist countries in atheistic schools. Christian parents who live like practical atheists tend to produce children like themselves--lukewarm.

The most important thing is not where the child is sent to, but where the child is sent from.

It was amazing at how much erroneous information was published by the convention I was a part of that my seven year old daughter noticed and adults failed to notice simply because she read her Bible and asked questions.