The Baptists Try to Buy a Vowel

It is so hard to get up and leave Egypt sometimes. You have to close your eyes pretty hard sometimes to keep from seeing God's heart and even his direct commands concerning the education of His children. Let the government schools raise your children in the admonition of the State? Train them up with a humanistic mindset for all of life? I know, I know, I'm being legalistic. Anymore if you just bring up what God says, your legalistic. To do what God says used to be called obedience, Now, we believers, are as nuanced as the world, so all of a sudden it's "complicated". There is no more clearer communicator in the universe than God. Period. So any issue of clarity will be from our end. Give us repenting hearts Lord...

From Chalcedon http://www.chalcedon.edu/

Baptists on Their Way to an “Exodus”?
Lee Duigon » Bio
Posted on July 16, 2007

How close have homeschooling activists come to persuading the nation’s largest Protestant denomination to call for an “exodus” from public schools?....
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Entitled “Almost they persuadeth me,” Ledbetter begins his editorial by distancing himself from “the Exodus Mandate folks. Their conviction that God has commanded all godly parents to remove their children from ‘officially atheist government schools’ won’t and shouldn’t become the consensus of the Southern Baptist Convention any time soon.”.....

..Ledbetter cites as an example a recent convocation at Boulder High School (Boulder, CO) in which a clinical psychologist told students, “I’m going to encourage you to have sex, and I’m going to encourage you to use drugs appropriately.”

“It’s not the Exodus Mandate that sways us toward the belief that Christians are being driven out of the public education system,” Ledbetter writes. “It’s events like the one in Boulder. It’s the quiet way that humanist teaching becomes mandatory, and thus gospel, in the hard and soft sciences. It’s the kids who think Abraham Lincoln was president during World War II, but know better the names of venereal diseases and illegal drugs.”...

Read the whole thing http://www.chalcedon.edu/articles/article.php?ArticleID=2752

So it's not enough that God gave instructions on the how, and what, to us for the raising of our children. But there is a point where we will finally say maybe that's too far?!? Brother......