Are children to be the “salt of the earth” in the public school system?
Published by tramsek July 23rd, 2006 in UpdatesIn Mark 9:50 we read that Christians are to “Have salt in ourselves”. From Psalm 51:5 we learn that we are sinful at birth. This means that our children come out with no salt in themselves. We need to be pouring the salt of Biblical truth into our children. We ought to be pouring Christian apologetics into our children. The problem is that they are naturally sinful and thus much of that salt falls out the bottom. We see in 1 Cor 15:33 that â�?��?Bad company corrupts good characterâ�?�?. Because we have a sin nature, itâ�?��?�s so much easier for others to drag us down than for us to drag up the world. How much more so for our children! Because of their sin nature, itâ�?��?�s much easier for them to be dragged down by the bad than for them to drag up the bad. The bad will influence the good more than the good will influence the bad. Did Lot influence Sodom or did Sodom influence Lot? The bad will influence the good because we are already bad. Weâ�?��?�re already humanist at heart therefore weâ�?��?�re more likely to be influenced by that which is bad. And hereâ�?��?�s the big deal, one of the greatest influences on children is other children. Peer socialization can be one of the most destructive influences in your childâ�?��?�s life.
Even Ken Ham talks about dealing with youth pastors and the youth group wanting to have Ken���?�s children in the youth group to influence some of the children who are not that good. Ken���?�s response was that he didn���?�t want those bad children to influence his children. Unfortunately even the church has bought into the lie that children need lots of time with other children to be ���?socialized���?�. �? But we must remember that children are not miniature adults. Children are children. Until they have that salt in themselves, they will be tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine.
We need to teach our children, not only what to believe, but why to believe it. Sadly many parents just take their children to church and tell them what to believe, but they have the wrong foundation, we���?�ve allowed them to be taught millions of years. So they try to push Christian morality from the top down rather than build on the foundation and build up. If Christian parents send their children to the public school system, they are being indoctrinated into an anti-God worldview.
Matthew 5:13 states â�?��?If the salt loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again?â�?�? The problem is that so many children from church homes are being contaminated by humanism, by evolution, by TV. If your children are in the public school system, you need to realize that the public schools are not neutral. The public school system is against Christ. The school system is teaching our children, practically to be atheists. Let me ask you a question: Did the Israelites send their children to the Philistines to be trained? No, the Israelites trained their children in the Lord, so that their children could be a light to the Philistines. When youâ�?��?�ve been trained by the enemy, you think like the enemy. Jeremiah 10:2 This is what the LORD says: Do not learn the ways of the nations (the heathen)â�?�¦If you children go to public school, how many hours per day are they trained in that anti-God system versus how many hours are they spending with their parents so the parents can put in salt and decontaminate them? �? Fathers need to teach their children the ways of the Lord.
Fathers, be encouraged that God has given you the gift of children. Do everything within the power of the Holy Spirit to give them a taste for the things of the Lord while they are young and even when they are old, it will stay with them. If they are in the anti-Christ government schools, consider prayerfully whether you can really decontaminate them from all the humanism, evolution, etc they are being indoctrinated with on a daily basis. Fathers need to be the spiritual leaders of the home including educating our children in light of the authority of the Bible and the Lordship of Christ in every subject area.
I can only imagine how offended teachers across the nation would be to see it written that they are “against Christ.” Most teachers I know are Christians. I know it serves your purpose to portray your religion as “under attack,” rallys the troups against a common enemy and all that… but it’s the portrayal here is really offensive.
I throughly agree with the above statement that PS are against Christ, even though there are many Christian teachers working in the school system. My sister is a school teacher, and I know would agree that christian kids do not belong there. While she attempts to reach out to children, she is very constrained in how she approaches a child, and in what she presents. Since she in on the elementary level, she does not deal directly with evolution, but it is there all the same. We do not blast the school teachers, they are working in a system that is against them, reaching out to any child that has a need. It’s a hard job to be a school teacher, we do applaud them.
I understand that you may feel this would be offensive to the school teachers that you know however you have to think in the way Ken is speaking here. He does not say that all public school teachers hate Christ, he is speaking on a system level. The fact that the system is anti-Christian is undeniable. Many of us have professions that are not for Christ, therefore those fields in general are against Christ. You cannot serve two masters! We are also called to be in the world, not of the world. Therefore a teacher can be in an anti-Christ SYSTEM and not be anti Christ themself. Teachers will not deny the fact that they are not able to reach out to the children as they would like, but many of us are not allowed to reach out to people with our beliefs in the workplace either. Think system, not individuals…………