What Manner of People are These?

If you haven't been there to check it out yourself, let me encourage you to look at some of what Kevin Swanson has written in his article section on the Generations website by . Some good stuff. Here's a sample...


Reversing Rousseau
The Domino Effect

...Home education is bringing sweeping changes into modern society in the area of sociology, and not everybody is excited about that. We are replacing peer pressure, group think, and statist, big government social relationships with a different sociology. Of course this will be of deep concern to those with a different worldview. It isn't the academic strengths of homeschoolers that is of concern to the opposition. It isn't even the fact that homeschooled children are able to interact with a wide variety of people from varying social contexts with ease, that bothers the opposition. It is the fact that these children are raised in different social relationships, nurturing relationships that will inevitably produce well-rounded, influential leaders of change in future generations. It is the fact that home education is poised to change the worldview, the social relationships of the modern world...
...It would be one thing, if homeschooling only affected family social relationships and perhaps then home educators would be tolerated. But indeed that is not the case! Once you have rearranged social relationships on the basic level, you will inevitably find a domino effect taking place, and all other social relationships will be affected.
...Last week, I took a call from Barna Research, an organization that surveys Christian ministries. (Ironically, the call came in while I was working on my Bible lesson I was preparing for my children that morning.) The gentleman on the other end of the line was surveying Christian pastors on children's ministries in their churches. He asked me if we had any Sunday Schools for children in our church.
I told him, "No."
"Any mid-week youth groups?"
"Not exactly," I replied.
"How about children's church?"
"Nope."
There was a pause. "What kind of church are you? Don't you have anything for children?"
I told him, "Well, we were reading the Bible, and we found Deuteronomy 6:7, Ephesians 6:4, the book of Proverbs, and all of the other passages on children's ministries. In practically every passage we found that it would be a really good idea if parents would disciple their own children. We couldn't find any more powerful ministry program for children, than for their own parents to show them Jesus every day as they sit in their house together, as they walk by the way, as they rise up, and as they lie down. We thought that would be a pretty neat system of disciple-ing children, and we decided to go with it."

"Wow. That's not even on my list here. That's pretty weird."...

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