If you are pondering public schooling for your children, I encourage you to seek the Lord and His wisdom in this crucial decision. Read 2 Timothy 2 for insight. Here, let me help you. Verses 16 commands this: "But shun profane and vain babblings; for they will increase unto more ungodliness." Verse 22 tells us to "Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart." Verse 23 reiterates verse 16, "But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes." Then how about this verse from Romans 12:9, "Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good." Finally, Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals" from I Corinthians 15:33.
Many Christian parents are wondering what went wrong with their children. They raised them in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord when they were growing up. However, around the age from 18 to 22, they have completely walked away from the Lord and they have no clue why.
Scripture is VERY clear about where Christians should hang out and who they should avoid. Our best friends should be believers who lift us up spiritually. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed {Proverbs 13:20}. What we listen to and watch should mostly be holy and pure {Philippians 4:8}. Who we learn from should be steeped in biblical wisdom. Children are sponges. They believe easily and trust completely. We are repeatedly warned to avoid false teachers. False teachers are teachers who teach false things. The public school is full of these types of teachers. {False things meaning they are completely opposed to things of the Lord and His ways.}
Giving your children from ages five to 21 to strangers who have no love for the Lord, teach many things contrary to God's Word and are being influenced by friends who engage in worldly entertainments is extremely risky at best and warned about in Scripture.
Yes, I know it is easier to send your children to "free" schooling all day long but you MUST count the cost of this free schooling. They have taken God completely out, rewritten history and teach that we came from monkeys, profane and vain babblings, just what the Word warns us against.
God clearly states that one of the prime purposes of marriage is to produce godly offspring. We are to be the ones teaching and training them or, at least, other believers who love God and desire to live holy, separate lives from the world's ways. My admonition to you is to think and pray carefully about who you give your precious children to all day. Who is teaching them, what is being taught, and what is your long term hope and prayer for your children? This is a high and holy calling and should not be taken lightly.
Scripture is VERY clear about where Christians should hang out and who they should avoid. Our best friends should be believers who lift us up spiritually. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed {Proverbs 13:20}. What we listen to and watch should mostly be holy and pure {Philippians 4:8}. Who we learn from should be steeped in biblical wisdom. Children are sponges. They believe easily and trust completely. We are repeatedly warned to avoid false teachers. False teachers are teachers who teach false things. The public school is full of these types of teachers. {False things meaning they are completely opposed to things of the Lord and His ways.}
Giving your children from ages five to 21 to strangers who have no love for the Lord, teach many things contrary to God's Word and are being influenced by friends who engage in worldly entertainments is extremely risky at best and warned about in Scripture.
Yes, I know it is easier to send your children to "free" schooling all day long but you MUST count the cost of this free schooling. They have taken God completely out, rewritten history and teach that we came from monkeys, profane and vain babblings, just what the Word warns us against.
God clearly states that one of the prime purposes of marriage is to produce godly offspring. We are to be the ones teaching and training them or, at least, other believers who love God and desire to live holy, separate lives from the world's ways. My admonition to you is to think and pray carefully about who you give your precious children to all day. Who is teaching them, what is being taught, and what is your long term hope and prayer for your children? This is a high and holy calling and should not be taken lightly.
Do you now know that being the world's
friend is being God's enemy?
James 4:4
friend is being God's enemy?
James 4:4
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RTD · 540 weeks ago
Roxy · 540 weeks ago
And single mothers may not have a choice. But if a parent does not inquire of the Lord about this matter that is very sad. This is such an important issue!
Blessings, Roxy
Patt · 540 weeks ago
No one is permitted to mock religion in the classroom, school grounds, or buses. Any such conduct would be considered a violation of the children's rights (in a teacher/adult) or severe bullying (from a fellow student) and would be dealt with swiftly and with due gravity. All children are considered to be personally *entitled* to an emotionally safe learning environment in our local public schools.
My kids' friends are somewhat 'foolish' because they are children, but they are not evil or bad influences. My children, themselves, are growing in godliness, and their pastoral/spiritual care and discipleship is well attended to on a daily and weekly basis.
Patt · 540 weeks ago
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Siri · 540 weeks ago
If the basic unit of relationship is the family then the world needs, more than ever, to observe up close what a family was meant to be. Children are part of a family's ministry team. Good Christians pulled themselves out of schools en masse in Montgomery, Alabama during the Civil Rights movement. Those schools still haven't recovered (I know, because I lived there) and 2+ generations of children have lost out on all the gifts and talents those families might have been able to offer. If you're in the schools, you can influence them through parent-teacher conferences, PTA, and the school/city/county boards. When we're not there to make a difference, a difference can't be made (I think of the 1700s when Quakers pulled out of Pennsylvania's colonial government and violence and hatred overtook their colony). I think now is the time to be more courageous, not less so.
wendytamaryoung 37p · 540 weeks ago
Bonnie · 540 weeks ago
Christine · 540 weeks ago
I am one of those parents who sent a Christ loving child off to college and he came back home an agnostic, full of unbelief.
But God is good and I know with prayer and love, he will remember.
Bev · 540 weeks ago
Parents who think that their schools are "good" and the teachers are so great, aren't there when the teachers are slipping in liberalism, ungodly teachings, homosexualism and pretty much everything else that goes against God. I've never seen a "good" public school yet because not even God is allowed to be a part of - to me, a school without God is NOT good! I can't see Jesus standing outside saying, "Send your children here to be taught in the way they should go!" No, rather, I could Satan doing so though. Just some food for thought.
Jo · 540 weeks ago
Ken · 540 weeks ago
If the public schools would keep to the basics, reading, writing, math and history without bringing in worldly ideals and influences, it could be a good thing. But when evolution is taught as if it were a fact, and not simply an unsupported theory, or when homsosexuality is taught as a choice and alternative lifestyle, and when history and English are tainted with worldly ideals, it is time to pull your kids from at least Junior High, if not High School.
I think Junior High is the worst time to have your kids in public school and even perhaps 10th grade. Elementary school is somewhat manageable if you pay close attention to kids homework, quiz them on what is being taught, and try to avoid teachers who teach aspects of the occult or humanism in their classrooms. There is no doubt that most teachers are upright, wonderful and dedicated people to their jobs and to their students. But ask a good teacher in a public school how many of her colleagues she would trust teaching her own kids, and you might be surprised at the response. It is Russian roulette with tenure granted to some pretty bad teachers, and some who should in no way be teaching children, but they cannot be fired.
If you want to know about what this looks like, take a peek into the New York City Schools where an entire building is used to house teachers who get paid to sit for 8 hours a day because they cannot be fired. Remember, these are supposedly the worst of the worst caught red handed, Behind them are far too many who are bad, but not bad enough to be exiled.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/22/new-york...
Don't get me wrong, we need public schools and great teachers, but unless you are completely confident in who is teaching your child and what is being taught, don't play Russian roulette with their lives. The idea that God will take care of your children even if you do not act responsibly for their own best interests is testing the Lord. And the Lord tells us not to test HIm, except in the things of faith. When He makes it clear that we and our families are to "come out of the world" and "be separate," we can't turn to Him and say, "But it was a free education and I sent my kids off to be witnesses for you."
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you" (2 Cor. 6:7). This means something, and each believer must decide what it means for them and their family. Can we best influence the world by having the world first influence our children, or by first raising or children in the Lord, then sending them out into the world to be witnesses for the Lord Jesus?
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mvstephenson 44p · 540 weeks ago