EDUCATION THAT IS TRULY “CHRISTIAN”

The great challenge confronting Christian parents is to raise and educate their children without the corrupting influence of Secular Humanism.  Even our Christian Schools must be concerned with Humanism. If we have Christian teachers trained in secular schools, they could hardly help having absorbed some humanistic tint to their thinking.  If we use the textbooks prepared by the secular publishing industry for the public school system, these books will be saturated with the humanist philosophy and interpretation of life.

If we structure our school curriculums on the model of public schools they will reflect a humanistic approach to education.
Our Christian Schools must offer more than a nice facility and highly principled teachers, freedom from drugs and gangs, a lack of disruptive behavior and high scores on college entrance exams. There are private prep schools that can offer these items. There is a desperate need for private schools where Christians teach youngsters the Christian philosophy of life.
We need schools where every subject is presented and interpreted in the light of God’s Word.   We need schools whose goal is to bring their students to the faith of Jesus and then train and send them forth as dedicated disciples and workers.  We don’t need schools where teachers plant unwanted seeds of dislike and disrespect for the faith and worship of the church then send the students forth to demand unscriptural changes in their congregations.

To accomplish the above goals, we need Christian teachers who will objectively review their past training and identify and transcend those vestiges of humanistic influence.  We need administrators who expect their teachers to reflect this Christian interpretation of life in their instruction. Our Christian Colleges need to make a decided effort to fully integrate Christian values and principles into every area of instruction.

Especially is this needed for those who would be teachers. Science teachers need to relate to their students the creative power of Jehovah in his cosmos (Ps. 19:1). Health and hygiene teachers can point out how the human body is fearfully and wonderfully made (Ps. 139:14). Art teachers can demonstrate the power of the Judeao-Christian faith on western art. English teachers can show the impact of the Bible on our language and great literature.  Sociology teachers can show how God’s Word resolves human conflicts and regulates human relations. In fact every course taught is capable of reflecting the glory of God. Religious educators of the denominational world are doing this very thing most effectively.

Parents must come to expect this truly Christianized instruction from those schools they choose for their children.  We who are called upon to support such schools should insist that they be Christian in more than name and ideal.
More private Christian Schools are needed. Clearly, our public school system has been commandeered by forces who hold an alien and hostile world view antithetic to our Christian values.  No wonder so many of our children are corrupted, crippled spiritually, or have their faith destroyed while in our secular educational system.  A youngster would have to be a spiritual giant to endure 16 years of subtle anti-Christian conditioning and survive unscathed.

May the Lord use all of us; teachers, parents, Christian leaders alike; to train up our children in the way they should go (Prov. 22:6).