Still on the Fence?
Sometimes taking that first step is the hardest. What roadblocks have kept you from making the decision to educate your children at home? Trust that these roadblocks will be removed. Finally, prayerfully, read on. Hopefully, by addressing some of the common homeschooling issues your roadblocks will become pebbles under your feet!
As Christians, we desire for our children to be effective witnesses in the world. Will they become effective witnesses by observing and being apprenticed by their Christian parents and other Christians, or by observing and being apprenticed by their peers.
We are not
admonished to grow in wisdom and stature by conforming to the
foolish. As our children's guardians, we have an opportunity to
provide them with a time of nurturing, apprenticing and growing so that
when God calls them to be salt and light, He will have prepared them
through us, as His willing servants, for the purpose He has before them.
Further Reading
- No More Children's Crusades
"Do not misunderstand me. By no means do I want to abandon the public schools. We need Christian adults -- not children -- to be salt and light in the public schools as teachers and administrators, school board members, truant officers, and social workers. When our children grow up, then we can send them to public school -- as adults whose jobs give them a measure of authority. But while they are young, we should not send them to be taught and discipled by a godless educational system in which they have no power or authority." Convicting article by Christopher J. Klicka. - On Being Salt and Light
"If we really want our children to be salt and light in this world, the public school classroom may be the last place they should be." A look at when our children will be salt and light, ready to make a difference from the Alliance for the Separation of School & State. - Salt and Light
"Far from teaching that anti-Christian, Atheistic, Secular Humanistic government education is an appropriate place for us to “shine,” the Bible actually warns us not to align ourselves with such adversaries." From Voddie Baucham Ministries. - Salt & Light, The Great Commission & Who's Responsible for Educating Your Children
"The same basic justification for Christian parents keeping their children in the pubic education system is made using the Great Commission. (See Matt. 28:18-20) The thrust of this argument is that Christian children at K-12 levels are or can be missionaries in public schools. Christian adults bear this responsibility, not their children. Nowhere in the Old or New Testament is it remotely suggested that Jews or Christians are permitted to have their children educated in a pagan institution. In fact, the Bible is quite clear that children require nurturing, training, and, yes, even being "set apart for a season." In other words, childhood is a time of discipling." Essay by E. Ray Moore, Jr., Chaplain (Lt. Col.) USAR Ret., Director of the Exodus Mandate Project - Warning! Public Schools Aren't for Christians
"In the New Testament, a person studying the texts will never find reference to Christ sending youth out to change the world and evangelize the lost. Believe me, youth between five and eighteen are the mission field. They themselves need to be discipled and built up with the power of God's Word." From the book by Richard "Little Bear" Wheeler.