Biblical Thinking in Educating Your Children

I want to start off by saying I know it is difficult at times for parents to place their children in Christian education. I myself have been under such a heavy debt load that I thought at one time I would have to place my children in public schools. The Lord worked some things out that kept me from having to do that.

I don't ever want to come across with a judgmental spirit towards those that do place their children in the public school system. The one thing I do want to do is squash the ignorant reason why a parent would consider public education over Christian education. I say "the ignorant reason" because I constantly here the same thing over and over again.

I hear parents say they put their children in the public school system so they can have an out reach to those lost students and teachers. My I say I thinking that is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.

My son is 6 years old. He hasn't accepted Christ as his Savior up to this point. So here I go. I am going to take my lost son, and place him under a humanist system for forty hours a week where he will be taught to be tolerant of other religions and that the Bible is a joke.

I hope you aren't willing to sacrifice your child for the excuse of saying your want to have a better outreach.

Home School Families are Self-centered

Oh course, I just made an obvious stereotype blanket statement to get your attention. Let me start out by saying we are a home school family. My two children, Emilee and Luke, are going through Abeka video program. My wife and I plan to be a home school family from now on, or at least until all of my children graduate.

There is a major problem I see in the home school family. Instead of a mom and dad who think they are debtors to all men, they instead think it is their responsibility to only focus on their family and no one else. When they go in to a church they think the church should be centered around their family.

They think that they have to guard their children from being with any other non-churched or non-home schooled children. In good conscience they say, it is my responsibility to make sure nothing unclean is around my child.

The faulty thinking in this area though is that we should be concerned about other children just as much as our own. When our child plays with someone who is not a good kid, our thoughts shouldn't automatically go to guarding our child, but instead of how we could make an impact in the life of the "bad kid".

Christmas Trees

In Jeremiah Chapter 9 we see the mention of trees being used as idols. In these verses the Bible tells us that the tree can't do evil and it can't do good. It's kind of like money. The people were using it as an idol but in all reality it has no power.

That is the same with any idol. Whether it's a Buddha statue or a Mother Mary statue. There is no power in the idol.

Money can be an idol just like a tree can be an idol. It just depends on how you use it.

If someone is using a Buddha statue for a decoration lets make sure we are not too judgmental. It would be the same as we using Christmas trees for decoration. What makes the difference is what we do with that figure that was used as an idol in our past history.

What's Our Emphasis?

In class we talked about how missionaries are expected to start a church and turn it over to a national in four years of less. Americans would think that's crazy and an impossible task, but I think it's because of we put the emphasis on the wrong thing.

They put the emphasis on the institution, where we put the emphasis on the leader. The church isn't what is important to us. It's the pastor where we place the importance.

Other People's Faults

I have a good friend who has recently lashed out to people that he has been under for several years.

He made a list of very ugly things where he had been wronged. When I read that list I was very disappointed in him. It hurt me to think how he was being selfish and self seeking. It hurt me to see how he was not content in whatsoever state he was in.

Unfortunately what my friend is going through is what we all go through. It is easy for me to see how ungrateful he is, but it's hard for me to see how I am ungrateful. I can see the error of thinking how my friend was done wrong but it's easy to look over the error of me seeing how I have been done wrong.

I Hate Missionaries

This was a statement from a man visiting our church. He said they live luxurious lifestyles and don't put in a full weeks work. They ask others to live by faith and don't live by faith themselves.

Wow. At first that really hit me in a face as a wicked and evil perons. But then something happened, I started thinking about what he said. Is there any truth in his words. Unfortunately there is a lot of truth in what he said.

I don't want to be that kind of missionary. What he said was true of many, but I don't want it to be true of me.

Is it Wrong to Protest Abortion

If someone broke into your house and was holding a gun to your son's head, would you try to talk him out of it or doing anything to try and stop him?

If we care about our own son should we care about someone else's son?

If there was a woman in front of your house being raped by a man would you try to stop it.

If there was a man standing in front of a school in our town shooting five year old boys in the head as they walked out of their kindergarten class should we try to do anything about it.

Should we discourage his activities or try to stop him in any way?

Would it be mean to tell the person holding the gun that if he shot my son or the 5 year old boys he would be a murderer?

Would it be mean to yell at the guy who is raping the young woman and call him a rapest and demand he be taken to jail?