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This was meant to be a comment to article on Why We HomeSchool by blessmomof3 but I realized it was becoming to long to just be a comment so I am posting it as a full article.
I can relate. My wife and I do not come from Christian Families so they have a hard time seeing why we do anything God has commanded. Homeschooling is just one of many issues, but it's a big one, homeschooling and why we keep teh sabbath. Most people in my own church unfortunately do not homeschool, which makes it hard, luckily the 2 previous churches we attened, (we're on our 3rd in 10 years because of work related moves) were almost exclusively comprised of homeschoolers so we had a lot of support even before we adopted and were able to homeschool.
R.C. Sproul Jr. has a great little test to see if you are qualified to Homeschool in his book When You Rise Up. It goes something like this;
Wait until it gets dark then sneak a peak in each bedroom of your home, check to see if there are children sleeping, now if there are are they your children? Now if there are children sleeping and they are your children, then God has equipped you to HomeSchool.
I believe like you that God has called us to Homeschool, but I also believe he has called every christian to Homeschool, there are many examples in Scripture that command us to teach our children in the ways of God, but the part of Scripture that has convicted me is looking at the 10 Commandements specifically the 1st and 5th.
The 1st Commandment
"You shall have no other gods before Me."
Ok you're asking how does this commandment command us to homeschool.
It's very simple if you think about it. In Public School the God that is taught and worshipped is the State God Humanism now don't be fooled Humanism is not a philosophy but a Theology. And every day you send your kids to school you are sending them to the Church of Hummanism. Consider these facts.
Did you know that a child spends 35 hours a week for 13 years (kindergarten through 12th grade) in school? For some, that means 16,380 hours of secular humanist indoctrination. The average church-going, Sunday School- attending Christian child, during these same years, will have a total of 676 hours of Biblical instruction. That's a whopping 4% of the amount of time spent learning the Bible, and 96% of the time learning secular humanism, the official doctrine of non-Christian schools. Is church and Sunday School alone enough to counteract the overwhelming influence of humanism on our children's minds? The answer in emphatically, "No!"
From Article Is Sunday School Enough by Sharon L. Herbster of the Christian Fellowship Center
Or as even the Hummanis state themselves:
"Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every American school is a school of humanism. What can a theistic Sunday school's meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of the five-day program of humanistic teaching?" (Charles F. Potter, "Humanism: A New Religion," 1930)
In 1983 John Dunphy another Humanist wrote an essay in which he contended
"The battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: A religion of humanity -- utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to carry humanist values into wherever they teach. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new -- the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism."
So if teachers are suppose to be the evangelists of this "new faith" then guess who they are evangelizing. Much like I wouldn't send my Children to a Satanic Mass, or or a Mormon Temple, A Mosque, or A Scientology audit, or any other false religion's place of worship so why would I want to send them to the place of worship of the fastest spreading most infectous false religion? I would be leading my children to break the 1st Commandment, the commandment that is the very foundation of all the rest
The 5th Commandment
"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
My children need to honour and obey me, so long as I am honouring and obeying God, but if I am dishonoring God and causing them to dishonour God, by making them break the 1st commandment (see above) then I am not worthy of that honour. I am neglecting my duties as a parent.
These are the reasons why we homeschool.
BTW though mine and my wife's family still don't see eye to eye with us as they see how our children are fuctioning normally, polite, well mannered, well behaved, and able to interact with other children their arguments seem to be less and less
Category: The Christian Walk
I was lucky...
When we began homeschooling we had never met another actual homeschooler. We thought they were strange beings gathered around a kitchen table all day with mom hovering like a mother hen. What we did have however, was tons of family support. They had never met a homeschooler either, but they trusted and supported us. They didn't have any faith in the public schools so they thought there was no way we could do worse.
I am happy to say, 12 years later, that very have met very few families that lived up to our strange stereotype. We have met people from all walks of life that have enriched ours in ways that it would be impossible to describe. I love reading about all the different reason people homeschool. An overwhelming calling and the love of family seem to be a common threads.
KyMentor - 8:19 PM - Jun. 28, 2006
hello and I put you on my friend list
I just saw your comment and I am so glad you visited. I am glad to make friends with anyone who is from PEI. As you read on my blog I have heritage from there. I tell my family or friends if I had one place to visit in Canada it would be PEI. I will have to try to find the blueberry maple syrup now, lol. It sounds soooooo good. I will have to finish tomarrow reading your blog and then I can comment. It sounds real interesting and I look forward to reading the rest.
In Him,
-Canadagirl
Canadagirl - 11:53 PM - Jun. 29, 2006
I finally had a quiet moment ...
to really read what you had to say. (0: I really like how you able to articulate and comunicate such good information and insight. Thank you for taking the time in doing this very important task. I am glad that HeartnSoul came to visit you. I have enjoyed your comments on my blog, thank you. I totally agree what you had to say in this post.
I will come again and bfn.
In Him,
-Canadagirl
Canadagirl - 1:45 AM - Jul. 4, 2006
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