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Why Christian Education Matters
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| Why is Christian education important to the nation's morality right now? | |
| Well, Mondo, Christian education started in the colonial era where moms and dads would sit down with their children and learn to read using God's word, the Bible. | |
| And of course, it eventually morphed into local schools, community-based schools that taught the Word of God as part of their curriculum. | |
| And then in the latter part of the really the 19th century, we began to see a change. | |
| Government got its clause on education and it became a public right, whereas children had to be taught in a public setting by government minders called, I suppose, teachers. | |
| And it eventually removed, weaned away all Christian influence. | |
| When I was a kid, I met Christ in a school assembly because an evangelist came and shared the gospel of Jesus Christ. | |
| We had Bibles reading in my public school and we had prayer in my public school. | |
| Well, that soon was removed totally. | |
| And progressives came in and said, you can't have the Bible in your curriculum. | |
| And so even though we used to study certain Bible, Job and Psalms and a number of other things in our academic English settings, you can't do that anymore. | |
| You can't have prayer. | |
| You can't have mention of God. | |
| You can't have the Ten Commandments posted. | |
| You know, progressives have always hated Christians. | |
| They see Christianity as competing against their ideology of progressivism. | |
| It has, you know, it's Marxist in its beliefs. | |
| It has its own doctrine. | |
| It has its own prophets, you know, in Hollywood or some liberal politicians. | |
| So it really qualifies as a cult as far as I'm concerned, but it has its clause on Christian on education in the United States. | |
| So we, the Christian community of America, have, in many cases, abandoned public education, and it's become far more sinister and far more evil. | |
| That's why we Christian parents have, in many cases, pulled our kids out of public schools where the gospel of Christ is no longer taught or considered as important an aspect. | |
| If you go back to the founding of this country, you look at Yale or Harvard or Princeton, if you read their founding and the purpose of their divinity schools, it was to promote the love of Christ, to promote the gospel of Christ, because that was the center of all learning. | |
| Well, that soon was abandoned by the likes of these progressives that took over. | |
| So we've abandoned the public education system to all the way through our universities where freedom of religion, the First Amendment, is no longer respected, much less our voice as an alternative to the radicalism that is spewing out of the mouths of the leadership of our universities and our secondary schools and so forth. | |
| Meanwhile, of course, academically, we're underperforming. | |
| We invest, what, $14,000 for every child in public school today, and yet we're ranked near the bottom on science and math and the like. | |
| That's inexcusable. | |
| That's why, if you truly want to transform America, and I do, we need an awakening. | |
| We need an education system that recognizes that God is not an afterthought. | |
| He's an important aspect of education, public or private. | |
| And we need to bring Christianity back into the classroom as it was at the beginning. | |
| Because if we don't, it will continue to slide down this slippery slope to places that are just not going to serve this country, much less our interest in the future. | |
| So there are a host of issues. | |
| I was really encouraged by what I heard you say, Mondo. | |
| We need to call those pastors because the pastors are going to be the first targeted people out there. | |
| So we need a modern black robe regiment to stand up and call the king in the pews. | |
| We are king based on our Constitution. | |
| We need to call the king in the pews to action. | |
| What do they do in a constitutional republic? | |
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Christians Must Wake Up
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| They call, they write, they badger their political representatives to represent our values, not some radical values that they often do. | |
| And that's both at the national level and the local level. | |
| We wouldn't have a lot of these problems if the Christians in America called their elected leaders to account. | |
| When was the last time you wrote a letter, you called any of your representatives and said, this is wrong. | |
| I want you to do this. | |
| Or I'm going to support someone different, someone that will support the values that are important to me. | |
| These are the types of things that we have to do. | |
| Otherwise, this country is toast. | |
| And we don't want this country to be toast. | |
| But I'm afraid there's a lot out there in terms of the church of Christ that are asleep today. | |
| They are happy to stay in the four walls of their church and not do anything in the public sector. | |
| That's not what we were called to do in Matthew 5. | |
| We're to be the salt and the light. | |
| And yes, it will sting and it will expose the darkness in a culture, but that's What we must do. | |