The Importance of Enhancing Educational Options for Christian Families

Fearing that they might offend Christian parents who send their children to public schools, Christian teachers who teach in the public school system, or other Christians involved in the public school system in some way, church leaders have failed to become knowledgeable and to warn parents about the evil influences their children will encounter and are encountering in public schools. While it clearly is not the job of the church to dictate to parents where and how to educate their children, the church does have a duty to inform, encourage, equip, and warn parents and families when the danger is real—and it is real.

Church help for parents may include an offer of more educational options. Churches can establish Christian schools, for example, and they can enhance opportunities for homeschooling. The church has for too long ignored threats to parent’s leadership in bringing up their children “in the training and admonition of the Lord” (Eph. 6:4). This includes children’s education.

No educational approach is perfect, but viable alternatives to public schools are desperately needed. Moreover, parents need to feel alternatives are within their reach.

Parents need more alternatives to public education within their reach.

For more information, go here. Also, keep reading.

On Monday and Tuesday, March 20-21, 2017, Dr. James Dobson interviewed E. Ray Moore on the subjects of public and Christian education. You can download the programs from these pages (here and here). Also, you can listen to them from this page.

Part 1, March 20

Part 2, March 21

For additional information, visit these websites and webpages.

The Exodus Mandate is a movement to encourage and equip Christian families to engage in alternatives to public education
Ray Moore (Chaplain, Lt. Col. USAR Ret.), leads the Exodus Mandate.
Just a few weeks ago, at the 500th anniversary celebration of the Reformation at Liberty University in September of this year, Chaplain Moore spoke on Christian education. He’s made his sermon available to share, and you can download it here.
Escaping Common Core: Setting Our Children Free is a documentary exposing the dangers of Common Core.
This article is titled “Back to the Big Lie: The Falsehood Fest Is Underway.”
Alex Newman, author of Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools To Destroy America’s Children, speaks out on this YouTube video.
John Stonestreet offers encouragement regarding creativity in education in this recent BreakPoint commentary.
Go here for information about the DVD documentary IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America.
Here is a wnd.com article titled “Public Schools Ruining U. S. Kids with ‘Indoctrination.'”
In this article, Kerby Anderson, President of Probe Ministries International, “summarizes the efforts currently underway to implement a gay agenda in our public schools, identifying some of the negative consequences. Looking at this initiative from a biblical worldview perspective, he suggests actions that Christians should take in response to these actions.”
This article is titled “Rotton to the Core: Government Schools ‘Common Core’ Indoctrination.”
Against this backdrop, we do well to become familiar with the influence of Reformation theology, essentially Christianity, on the education of the young.

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top image: Located in Springfield, Vermont, the Eureka Schoolhouse—a one room schoolhouse—”was built in 1785 and in continuous use until 1900.”