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I have been asked this question a lot recently.  In fact, I have asked myself this question quite often.  Maybe you, too, have asked the question, Why?  Consider the following forms of this question.

• Why is there so much division in our country, our churches and our homes?
• Why is there so much confusion over one’s gender?
• Why are there so many people being attacked because of things they have no control over such as color of skin, gender, religious affiliation, etc?
• Why is there so much fear about COVID-19?
• Why is there a growing demand by people, especially the younger generations, for the government to provide everything to them for free?
• Why is the nuclear family under such fierce attack like it is today?

You can probably add many other questions to this list.  When I have been asked “why” questions such as these, my response has been pretty simple.  I believe there is only one reason why our w0rld is in such a mess.  It is the same reason why today’s church has lost much of its influence in society.  Here is my answer.

We don’t know God!

I want you to notice that I didn’t say that people don’t know God.  I said we, including me,  don’t know God.  I cannot think of one problem that I face that couldn’t be solved if I really knew God.  I am convinced that families would be stronger if its members knew God better.  I believe the church would have greater influence on the culture if its leaders and members knew God.  I believe Christian schools would see more students become devoted followers of God if their staffs got serious and strived to know God better.

I was reminded of the importance of knowing God when live streaming a conference over the weekend.  Pastor Rodney Brown made a statement that caught my attention.  He said,

In almost every case the problem with every worldly philosophy is an unbiblical view of man or an anemic view of God.

As I contemplated Brown’s statement, I realized that an unbiblical view of man is the result of an anemic view of God.  Not knowing God correctly is the problem.  Dr. Thomas Sowell once said,

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Solzhenitsyn was correct when he said,

Men have forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.

Paul understood how important it was for him and everyone he came in contact with to know God.  That was his message to the Athenians on Mars Hill.  One of the gods that they had built a monument to was the “Unknown God.”  He told them that they could know who was and is the only true God (see Acts 17:22-31).

Paul, himself, was willing to lose everything in order to know God better.

But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.  Philippians 3:7-8 (NKJV)

I believe that there is a reason Christians don’t know God.  It is because most of today’s Christians don’t know the Bible.  Knowing God doesn’t result from some mystical vision or experience.  God is known by knowing His Word.

I can remember when everyone who was heading to church always had his/her Bible in his/her hand.  It may have been the only time in the week that they opened their Bibles but, at least, they took it to church on Sunday’s because the preacher would ask them to open their Bibles as he preached from it.  Today, we don’t even take our Bibles to church.

If we want to see God do a work in our lives, homes, churches, schools and communities, we need to count everything in life as rubbish in order to grow in the knowledge of God.

As I close this week’s article, I want to ask all of you who are reading this to pray for several very important events that will be taking place over the next few weeks.  This week, ACSI will be conducting its first Flourishing School Institute.  During the last week of June, I will be speaking at a worldview conference hosted by Precept Marketing and BJ Press at the WWII Museum in New Orleans.  Immediately following that conference, I will be conducting the first Kingdom Education™ Summit.

Hundreds of Christian school educators, pastors and church leaders will be attending one or more of these events.  Please pray that there will be a desire for each of those in attendance to strive to know God as He meets with them to show them how He wants them to educate future generations.

One of the saddest verses in the Bible is found in the book of Judges.  God had just brought Israel into the Promised Land.  He had done marvelous things so that they could possess their inheritance. Then we find these words.

When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work He had done for Israel.  Judges 2:10 (NKJV)

The theme we have chosen for the upcoming Summit is Teaching the Next Generation to Know God.  We believe that is our only hope for the future.  I am excited that we will be giving each participant at the Summit copies of my new books, Understanding Kingdom Education™ and Applying Kingdom Education™.  Both books are at the printers as I write this article.

It is not too late to register for the Summit.  I would love to have you join Christian school leaders and pastors at this very important event.  You can find out more about the Summit by clicking HERE!

 

 

For the past couple of weeks, I have been engaged in some interesting reading.  Many ideas that I have come across through these readings have caused me to ask myself quite a few questions about life, in general, and specifically about education.  Here is just a sample of what I have been studying during the last couple of weeks of May and the first few days of June.

• Excellence: The Character of God and the Pursuit of Scholarly Virtue by Andreas Kostenberger
• Faultlines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe  by Voddie Baucham Jr.
• The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards by Steven Lawson
• Why Social Justice is Not Biblical Justice by Scott Allen
• Don’t Let Schooling Stand in the Way of Education by Darrow Miller
• The Confessions of Saint Augustine by Augustine (just started through his writings)

During my daily quiet time, I have been deep into reading and studying the Old Testament prophets from Daniel to Malachi.  Reading through these books have been sobering to say the least as they predicted how God was going to bring judgement on Israel because of their idolatry.

On top of all of this, I started taking an online class on classical liberal arts education.  Much of this reading, studying, and meditation has been done as I prepare for the upcoming Kingdom Education™ Summit that will be taking place in a few short weeks.

Through all of this, I have come to realize that there are several questions that every parent, pastor, and educator has faced at one time or another.  It is also true that we all answer these questions on a regular basis.  Unfortunately, many times, if not all the time, we do so unconsciously.

One of the professors that was presenting a lecture on K-12 education said that all education is a response to two fundamental questions.

1. What do children need to learn?
2. How will they learn it?

As I thought on these questions, it came to my mind that there is a third question that must be asked and answered when it comes to the education of the next generation.  This question is really a part of our reply to the first question and it is,

Why do they need to learn these things?

Every adult involved in the education of children and youth is continuously asking and answering these questions.  As I stated earlier, we answer them without giving them a great deal of conscious thought.  Most times, how we answer them is found not in our words, but in our actions.  I encourage you to pause from reading this post and answer these questions.

How we answer these questions is based on a hierarchy of importance that each person establishes for himself.  Establishing this hierarchy is especially important to the first question, What do our children need to learn?  This point was driven home for me in another lecture in the class that I am working my way through.  The lecturer asked this question.

“Would you rather your child be rich or good?”

He went on to say that you can’t say that you want them both.  If you had to choose only one, would you want your child to be a prosperous thief or be a poor honest person?  You are probably doing exactly what I did.  I immediately answered that I want my child to be good and honest.

Then some other questions came to my mind.  All of them are also based on an assumed hierarchy of importance.  Some of these questions included:

1. Do I want my children/students to obtain a college degree or know God?
2. Do I desire for my children/students to graduate at the top of their classes or know God’s will for their lives?
3. Do I want my children/students to land that well-paying job/career or be a committed follower of Jesus Christ?

How we answer these questions is based on what we believe to be most important between the choices before us.  We all have desires we want for our lives and for the lives of those we teach in our homes, churches and/or schools.  The desires we see as more important than others are ones that we will take greater risks and make greater effort in order to fulfill them.

So, how you and I actually answer all these questions is found in how much risk or effort we put into the education we actually give our children.  These risks and efforts are not just about the schooling our children receive but what takes place in our homes and churches as well.

So, the real question that I must ask myself and you need to ask yourself is,

Based on my actions [efforts & risks], what are the things that I believe are most important for my children, grandchildren, and/or students to know?

The next question we must then answer is Why do I want them to know these things?  But that is for another blog.  Please be praying for the Kingdom Education™ Summit as final details are being put in place.  I am asking God to guide those in attendance to not only know how He wants us to answer questions like these, but also what has to take place in our homes, churches and schools for these answers to become a reality.

In my recent posts, I have been asking some important questions related to the education of future generations.  As another school year comes to an end, we need to think about the important role that one’s philosophy of education plays in the education we give our children and grandchildren.

There seems to be less emphasis placed on the philosophy behind all educational efforts over the past several decades than what I experienced when I first entered Christian education.  This trend toward focusing on the process rather than the foundational philosophy of education has paralleled a similar trend in today’s church.

Experiential worship has replaced biblical doctrine in many churches today. This has led to a shallow understanding of who God is and what the Christian life is really all about.  Many years ago, A. W. Tozer predicted what would happen if experience replaced doctrine as the driving force in the church.

He believed that it would lead to what he referred to as a “gold-calf Christianity.”  This shallow form of Christianity would be defended by focusing on numbers of people in our churches rather than on what changes are actually taking place in their everyday lives.

Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, “But we are winning them!”  And winning them to what?  To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To holy living? To nobility of character? To a disposing of the world’s treasures? To hard self-discipline? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is no.

The same can be true of Christian education when a strong biblical philosophy of education is not foundational to all that takes place in the educational process.  We can believe that we are successful because our numbers are strong, our teachers are highly qualified, our accreditation is in place, our programs are expanding, and our graduates are being accepted at prestigious college and universities.

Like Tozer said, We are winning them!  But we must ask the question, what are we winning them to?  Are they strong in their commitment to absolute truth?  Do they think biblically about all of life?  Have they come to know God’s call on their lives?  Have they abandoned their desires for their lives to fully obey God’s will for them?  Do they know God or just know a lot about Him?

If the education that they have received at home, church and school has not been presented from a strong biblical worldview and a biblical philosophy of education, the answer to all these questions may well be a no.  We must once again get back to knowing, understanding and committing ourselves to a biblical philosophy of education — to Kingdom Education™.

This will become a reality when parents, church leaders and Christian educators fully embrace the absolute truths found in God’s Word about how He wants us to educate future generations.  Sixteenth century theologian, John Owen, said it best.

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice, right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

This is why God directed me to conduct a Kingdom Education™ Summit for parents, church leaders and Christian educators.  At the Summit, we will be dissecting every aspect of education in an attempt to know the absolutes [about education] revealed from without by God Himself.

The one thing about education that we must fully embrace is what does God think and say about it.  Again, I am challenged by the words of Tozer.

A Christian’s one question in any set of circumstances [education] is What does God think of this?  What the current popular attitude may be is of no importance.  He will approve or disapprove altogether as the written Word and the indwelling Spirit indicate.

I pray you will consider joining more than 100 church and school leaders by registering for the Kingdom Education™ Summit today.  Together we will dig deep into God’s Word to find what God thinks about education. Then, we will develop strategies for the home, church and school so that these institutions can unite together and educate our children and grandchildren from a solid biblical philosophy of education.

We must never forget that the philosophy of education we hold is the foundation on which our children’s lives will be built.  G. K. Chesterton was right when he wrote,

Every education teaches a philosophy; if not by dogma then by suggestion, by implication, by atmosphere.

Let’s make sure we teach our children and youth a Kingdom Education™ philosophy.  Together we can make sure that the answers to the questions asked above are a resounding YES!!!

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There is no doubt about it.  One’s worldview impacts a child’s education.  As Christians, we should strive to make sure that a biblical worldview informs the education we give our children and youth.  Everything we teach our children and youth, whether it is at home, church or school, must be done in the context of a biblical worldview.

Over the past several months I have attempted to identify some essential truths of a biblical worldview.  Through my study of Scripture, I have found Six Essential Truths of a Biblical Worldview.  These Essential Truths fall into the three components of a biblical worldview: Creation, the Fall, and Redemption.  These truths are as follows:

Understanding Creation:

• Essential Truth #1 — God is eternal both in His person and nature
• Essential Truth #2 — God’s creation is an expression of who He is and exists for His glory
• Essential Truth #3 — Man was created in God’s image to know God, multiply His image and perform a work for His glory

Understanding the Fall:

• Essential Truth #4 — Sin entered the world and man no longer would know God and give Him glory by studying what He had made. Man lost his purpose!

Understanding Redemption:

• Essential Truth #5 — Eternal life restores man’s purpose to know God and give Him glory
• Essential Truth #6 — To glorify God, one must live in such a way that His character is displayed and His praise is increased.

All subjects should be taught within the context of these Six Essential Truths of a Biblical Worldview.  But what does this actually look like in everyday teaching?  Allow me to share with you something I have been working on recently.  When this blog posts, I will have begun teaching four classes in history to middle school students.  Last year, I had the privilege of teaching high school biology, chemistry and physics at our local Christian school.  Now I have the opportunity to fill in for a teacher vacancy at this school in these middle school subjects.

I have had to ask myself a simple question.  How should these Six Essential Truths of a Biblical Worldview inform the history classes that I will teaching until the end of the school year?  The first question I had to answer was this.   Where should all history begin in light of a biblical worldview?  The answer is found in Essential Truths #1-3.

To fully understand history, one must start at the beginning.  Understanding history must begin with students learning that an eternal, self-existing God spoke the world into existence in six days.  Students must also understand the “why” behind creation which will, in turn, lead students to learn that God started time (history) for His glory.

Students must also realize that the history of the human race began with God forming Adam out of the dust of the ground.  Then man became a living soul when God breathed His breath into man.  Thus, history began with creation and it is only understood when one understands these three Essential Truths.

If students studied history only through the lens of creation, they would be puzzled as to why there is so much evil taking place throughout all of human history.  That is why Essential Truth #4 must also be grasped in order for students to fully understand and learn about history.

The Fall was the result of a cosmic battle between good and evil, God and Satan.  Therefore, all of human history must be viewed within the context of this cosmic battle that is always taking place behind the scenes.

Ever since the terrible day in the Garden when sin entered the world, history is rife with evil and hurt.  This is because history is the recording of man’s actions based on one’s beliefs or worldview.  Since every one of us is born in sin, we all do bad things.  We sometimes ignore certain realities in history that show the sinfulness of all people, even with those who were strong Christians.

When God gives us a history lesson in His Word, He doesn’t spare the reality of sin.  Reading about the lives of Abraham, Jacob, David, Peter, Paul and others, God presents the good, the bad and the ugly sides of these godly saints.  True history is a reminder that the entire creation groans under the curse of sin.

Finally, history must include the truths about redemption.  Yes, we live in a fallen world and we are all sinners by nature.  However, God has not forsaken His creation, including mankind.  God does not want any one to die in their sins and enter into eternal damnation.  Therefore, God sent His Son to shed His blood for our sins.

This is why any history we teach our children must be grounded in Essential Truths #5-6.  Eternal life restores our God-given purpose of knowing and glorifying Him in all of life.  These Essential Truths should shape any and all history that we teach to our children and youth.

However, these Six Essential Truths of a Biblical Worldview must be applied to all education.  As you contemplate the depth of these truths, how will they shape your thinking and your teaching?  Kingdom Education™ requires that a biblical worldview undergirds and informs the entire educational process.

 

 

I have heard more and more people talk about how the world seems to be spiraling out of control.  The reality is that God is in total control and is working His plan for mankind to perfection.  However, with all the craziness that is taking place, I have found myself becoming increasingly concerned about what is happening in the country, our homes, churches and Christian schools.

As a result of spending time in the Word and much prayer, I am excited to make two very important announcements about the future of Kingdom Education Ministries.  The first announcement is in regard to what God has shown me about Kingdom Education™ ever since my book was first published in 1998.

In my efforts to more fully understand God’s plan for educating future generations, He has shown me so many truths from His Word.  As I have presented some new concepts related to Kingdom Education™, I have been asked one question over and over again.  Am I going to update the book?

Well, I can now answer that question with a resounding yes!  A two-volume series titled, Understanding Kingdom Education™, has been written and is now at the publishers.  These two new resources will not replace Kingdom Education™: God’s Plan for Educating Future Generations.  They will serve as companion books that build on the foundation laid in my first book.

The first book in this new series is Understanding Kingdom Education™: A Challenge to the Home, Church and School.  This book presents several new concepts that I have learned over the past 20 years about how God wants us to educate future generations.  I have attempted to bring greater clarity to the principles found in God’s Word that are the foundation to my first book, Kingdom Education™.

The second book is Understanding Kingdom Education™: Following God’s Instructions for Educating Future Generations.  In this book, I do a deep dive in fourteen biblical principles related to educating future generations.  These principles provide parents, church and school leaders with the essential elements of a true biblical philosophy of education.  The book is designed to be used in homes, churches and schools to develop strategies for fulfilling the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations.  It includes discussion questions that will guide parents, pastors and Christian educators in developing strategies to implement a comprehensive, intentional plan to follow God’s instructions about how to educate our children and youth.

This leads me to the second announcement I am very excited to make.  I will be launching the first ever Kingdom Education™ Summit this summer.  I have mentioned the Summit in a couple of earlier blogs.  Registration is now open and several ministries have already signed up to attend.  The Summit is the most important event that I have ever been a part of in my 50+ years of teaching.  Here is the reason why I make such a bold statement.

I have been burdened about two articles that I read which were written in 1993.  The first article was written by Joel Belz in World Magazine and was titled, Too Little, Too Late.  In the article’s summary, he wrote,

Christian schools will be found overall to have done a very good job in terms of general education, but will be disappointed in terms of instilling a profound sense of Christian discipleship.   On basic skill tests, SAT scores, and other standardized measurements, Christian school graduates will increasingly outperform their counterparts from public education.  But in terms of radical adoption of a Christian perspective on life, the differences – while definitely present – will be disappointing…where Christian schools are weak, they are weak because they have done little more than produce upgraded carbon copies of the public schools they seek to replace.

In that same year, I was given a small booklet produced by Development Marketing Associates.  This booklet presented the results of the Comprehensive Development Assessment that over 500 Christian schools participated in.  Two startling findings resulted from these assessments.

• Less than half of the parents who had students enrolled in these schools understood and could articulate the mission of Christian education.
• Almost exactly the same percentage of Christian school teachers could articulate the philosophy and mission of Christian education.

I just spoke at a Worldview Conference that Precept Marketing and BJ Press held at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC.  I asked the delegates if the above percentages of these two groups of people has increased, decreased or stayed the same concerning a biblical philosophy of education.  Every single person indicated that the percentage of parents and teachers who could articulate the philosophy and mission of Christian education has diminished over recent years.

At this same conference, Dr. George Barna shared recent findings of a major study conducted by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University.  Here is a summary of what was found to be the worldview incidence in the United States in 2021.

• Eastern Mysticism — <1/2 of 1%
• Marxism — <1/2 of 1%
• Nihilism — 1%
• Moralistic Therapeutic Deism — 1%
• Postmodernism — 1%
• Secular Humanism — 2%
• Biblical — 6%
• No Strong Worldview — 88%s

Even though Christian education is making somewhat of a difference in the intellectual and spiritual lives of students, we are losing the battle for the hearts and minds of the next generation.  As individuals develop a worldview, their worldview always results in behavior that develops culture.  This means that when you and I observe culture, whether it is in society, the home, church or school, we are observing the predominant worldview that is held by the majority of the people.

Something must change!  The Body of Christ must address the issue of education biblically!  This is the sole purpose of the Kingdom Education ™ Summit.  Participants will answer such questions as:

• What is education?
• Is education and schooling the same thing?
• What is Kingdom Education™?
• What are the main things that every child must know in order to survive and thrive in today’s world?
• What are the Six Essential Truths of a Biblical Worldview?
• What are the 14 Essential Principles of a Biblical Philosophy of Education?
• How do these Essential Truths and Essential Principles provide a biblical framework for educating future generations?
• What strategies must be developed and practiced in the home, church and school in order to guide our children and youth to become disciples of Jesus Christ?

I am urging every person reading this blog to prayerfully consider attending this summer’s Kingdom Education™ Summit!  I need your voice to be at the table as we tackle these extremely important and vital issues.  Early bird registration ends May 1st.  Schools that are members of the National Alliance of Christian Schools (formerly SBACS) are eligible to receive grant monies to help with the costs for attending the Summit.  Kingdom Education™ Prime Members are also eligible for a discounted registration fee.

 

Finally, we are planning on releasing my two new books, Understanding Kingdom Education™, in conjunction with the Summit.  All attendees will get a complimentary copy of each book!

For more information about the Summit click HERE!  Remember God is in total control. However,  we must obey His Word and provide every child with a biblical education.  To accomplish this task, individuals must be restored, homes must be empowered, churches must be engaged and schools must be transformed through Kingdom Education™.  It is not too late but it must begin NOW!

There was a time in my life when I, like the majority of Christians, thought that there were some aspects of education that were spiritually neutral.  That has changed!  After being in professional education for over 52 years, I now know that there isn’t the smallest part of education that is spiritually neutral.  If fact, all education is religious.  This is true whether it takes place at home, church or school.

I am absolutely astounded that Christians will still put their children in secular schools when one considers the indoctrination that is taking place in these schools today.  I know; I have heard it over and over again.  “Our schools are good.”  Usually the person saying that is defining good by the level of academics, fine arts, technology or extra curricular activities offered by a school.  However, there is still an underlying “religious” worldview that permeates every school.  It is the worldview that will end up shaping the hearts and minds of the children and youth who attend there.

Education has always been a tool that has been used to shape society.  This was true when Nebuchadnezzer tried to educate the Hebrew young men that he had captured.  It is also seen in how Marx and Hitler viewed education as a means to control the populace.  Hitler once said, He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

There are some common threads that were behind past government’s efforts to shape the minds of its youth and what we see happening before our very eyes today.  First, there is always an attack on the family.  Both Marx and Hitler knew that the key to controlling the future was to weaken or destroy the home.  Erwin Lutzer points out that this was because these men knew that children without family roots can be more easily directed toward secular values and state benefits.

Second, there is always an effort to control what is taught to the children.  Chuck Colson made this clear when he wrote,

One of the first actions taken by revolutionary governments is to place all educational agencies under the direct control of the state, giving schools a central hand in building a new society.

When the home is weakened and the government controls the education of the majority of the children, then future generations will become disciples of the society’s worldview.  Again, read carefully the words of Hitler,

The most striking success of a revolution will always have been achieved when the new philosophy of life as far as possible has been taught to all men, and, if necessary, later forced  upon them.

He explained this further in a replying to an opponent of his ideology.

When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side’, I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”

William Foster (1881-1961) was an American Communist leader who wrote, Toward Soviet America.  In this book, he predicted how socialism would take over the country with these words.

 Schools, colleges and universities will be coordinated and grouped under the National Department of Education…The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology.

Today, we are seeing how the education of our children and youth is reshaping our country in dramatic ways.  Dr. Everett Piper recently asked and answered a very thought provoking question.   Wondering why our country is collapsing before your very eyes?  Answer:  What’s taught today in our classrooms will be practiced tomorrow in our culture.  Toby Sumpter recently tweeted, If religion is primarily about making disciples, government schools are the established religion of America.

Unfortunately, many parents today are not aware, or not interested in, what is being taught in secular schools today.  Even when the consequences of this indoctrination hits, many seem to simply shrug their shoulders and go on with their daily routines.  Here are just a few of the examples that have come across my desk in a matter of a couple of weeks.

• In 2002, Canadian Pastor Mark Harding was found guilty because he opposed the promotion of Islam in the schools in his district, a privilege not given to Christianity, Hinduism, or Buddhism. His punishment was two years of probation, and he was subjected to more than three hundred hours of indoctrination by an imam as punishment.
• In 2015, TN middle school students were required to write, “There is no god but Allah; and Muhammed is his prophet.”
• In one sex education program, children as young as four or five are taught that parts of their bodies feel good when touched…this is called masturbation and they should always masturbate in private…By the second grade, they learn that the same act can be performed with a partner.
• It has been reported that requiring students to use correct grammar when writing and/or speaking is oppressive and needs to stop.
• Teachers have reported that they have been told to refer to students by their preferred gender names unless talking to parents when they are to use the students’ biological names.
• A teacher in one public school asked those who were in favor of same-sex marriage to line up on one side of the room, and those who were opposed were to line up on the other side of the room.
• A NC school system conducted teacher training on equity where they were told that the district’s “whitewashed curriculum was doing real harm to our students and educators.”  Teachers reported that parents should be considered impediment to social justice and teachers have an obligation to subvert parental wishes and beliefs.
• Kindergarten students in a public school system in Western NY had to participate in a  lesson on “racist police and state-sanctioned violence.”
• The Oregon Department of Education encouraged teachers to get training that was designed to “dismantling racism in mathematics.”  In this training a list of ways that “white supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms” included “the focus on getting ‘right’ answers and students being reared to ‘show their work’.”
• A Canadian father was recently arrested for protesting his daughter being given testosterone.  The daughter was advised by a school official to do so without informing the parents.
• A group of current and former teachers in a Virginia school system compiled a list of parents suspected of disagreeing with the system’s controversial CRT teaching with the purpose to “infiltrate” them in an effort to silence these parents.
• A NYC school encouraged students to stop saying ‘Mom’ or ‘Dad’.
• A proposed ‘ethnic studies’ curriculum in CA urges students to chant to an Aztec Deity of Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism and engineer a ‘counter-genocide’ against whites.
• A 2008 report by The American Textbook Council showed ten of the most widely used middle school and high school social studies textbooks “present an incomplete and confected [falsely constructed] view of Islam that misrepresents its foundations…in a 7th grade text “Islam is featured as a model of interfaith tolerance; Christians wage wars of aggression and kill Jews.  Islam provides models of harmony and civilization.”

  Parents—and I include most Christian parents—no longer raise their children. Rather,culture does.

These are just a few of what I have read about over the past few weeks.  Some others were so graphic that I couldn’t include them in this post.  Dr. Erwin Lutzer has summed this up with this warning.

The radical secularists demand that “schools must change their curricula to reflect this alternate view of society”…Parents—and I include most Christian parents—no longer raise their children.  Rather, culture does…Parents clothe their children, feed them, and send them to school, but the hearts of their kids are being stolen and molded by a world that many of us don’t understand.

These false religious worldviews are also creeping into Christian education.  Natasha Crain wrote an article for Cross Examined that challenges parents to be very careful about their choice of schools for their children. Crain had homeschooled her children for pre-K and then she enrolled them in a local Christian school.  She had decided to go back to homeschooling them when the middle school years arrived.

In this article, she wrote, Make no mistake: Curriculum is rarely worldview neutral. She went on to explain how the curriculum throughout secular schools is based on a humanistic, secular worldview.  Then she shared that in Christian schools “in many cases, they use secular textbooks and expect teachers to compensate in the class by talking about the subject from a Christian perspective.”

Then she said something that put a chill up my back.

Many teachers are simply not equipped themselves with this kind of understanding in order to fully counter what secular curricula teaches.  You end up with a tug of war between worldviews of the text and the teacher.

It is critical that all Christians address the issue of education biblically.  We must make some major changes if we are going to be able to stand against the onslaught of the radical secularists of today.  That is why I am encouraging schools to become a KEM Prime Member and provide your staff and parents with important worldview training.

It is also why I want to encourage school and church leaders to register for the Kingdom Education Summit this July.  This is one of the most important events that I have ever been a part of.  Register Today!!