November musings

November musings

Home Schooling

I do think that if children are home schooled that this should be considered for the right reasons. Those being, the child needs special one on one attention that the public and private school systems cannot provide. That the child is unable to function intelligently and rationally within the confines of the system and is then considered to be a disruption and must be removed from the school for the greater good. Personally, I don’t believe keeping a child home based on Christian principals is the right decision.
What exactly do the scriptures say…

"And it came to pass afterward, that He went throughout every city and village, preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with Him.." Luke 8:1.

That’s what Jesus did; He went into the world, into every city and village preaching and SHOWING the glad tidings. Jesus is our example not to hide from, or run from the world but to go into the world. How sad it is that many who home school their children miss their commission to show the world what it is we’re made of. Why in some circumstances it might be fair to ascertain that those who hide from the world are just as bad as those in fundamental madrassas who promote violence against the world. Those who hide from and shun the world have given up on it and that is a sin. The sin, again from scripture;

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. (Matthew 28:18-20)

Simply, this commission cannot be achieved whilst hiding out at home. How will others see what we’re supposed to be doing when we’re hiding out from them? Parents who train and teach their young ones well have nothing to fear from a school system. Perhaps those most fearful are those who’ve fallen the most short in their job to train their children well, with strong morals, ethics and steadfast belief in who they are and what they believe.

Oh I expect to hear lots of whining that “Our children can’t pray at school.” That, “God has been removed from the school.” “That the schools are full of persecutors.”

This is all poppycock. At no time in my life when I have either shut my eyes or not, to pray has anyone prevented me from doing so. If God has indeed been removed from school, well then who is to blame for that? Could it be those who’ve taken up their marbles also known as their children and packed up and forsaken the system with a refusal to participate? Maybe. Could it be that those who’ve cut and run are creating spiritually weak offspring who when grown will not be able to function with, confront and respect those of a different mind, perhaps.

To wrap it up, many of those who’ve cut and run are demonstrating that they don’t love or care for their fellow citizens, they have shunned them and in that shunning, they have shunned God’s light in those who they’ve forsaken.