It is not enough to pray. Surely God expects us to act.
I wonder how many pro-life activists pray for a conversion of the American heart and then foolishly send their children to atheistic government schools? I wonder how pro-life activists are content to see the children of their congregation attend atheistic government schools?
1) A Christian parent's first and **most** important mission field is his **own** child! And....One of the **most** effective measures a Christian parent can take to assure the conversion of his child to Christian pro-life worldview is to never send him to government school!
2) The second **most** important concern for the Christian should be for the conversion of the children of their congregation.
http://www.exodusmandate.org/art_20050404-salt-and-light.htm
|| Who's Converting Whom ||
The reality of the situation is that very little Christian witnessing is ever done by children in public schools to begin with. As with everything else in life, there are of course some exceptions to the rule.
Without question, the lion's share of converting and witnessing is accomplished through the public education curriculum, peer pressure from other children -- most of whom are non-Christian -- and educators who implant (either subtly or obviously and conscientiously or unconscientiously) their humanistic, neo-pagan or new age doctrines within the minds and hearts of Christian children. These children, I might add, are a captive audience with little or no chance to speak up or opportunity to rebut their teachers.
The research data on the success of the public schools in indoctrinating Christian youth with humanistic or neo-pagan worldviews is overwhelming. The Nehemiah Institute's worldview PEERS test shows that 83-percent of the children from committed Christian families in public schools adopt a secular humanist or Marxist socialist worldview. At the SBC's 2002 annual meeting, the Southern Baptist Council on Family Life reported, among other disturbing things, that 88-percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at age 18. Barna Research reports that only 9-percent of born-again teens believe in moral absolutes, and more than half believe that Jesus sinned while He was on earth. We believe the fact that 80-percent of Christian families send their children to public schools is a prime reason for this lost legacy.