Encouraging Family Reformation

The biblical institutions of church and family in America are in need of reformation. Some say that we are in the period of greatest apostasy in 500 years. Less than one-half of one percent of adults ages 18 to 23 years have a biblical worldview. Only one-third of Christian parents say their religious faith is one of the most important influences on their parenting and only 27% of Protestant parents are very familiar with what the Bible has to say about parenting. It is clear that many Christian parents are no longer discipling their children in the faith. The result---SBC’s Council on Family Life reported that roughly 88 percent of evangelical children are leaving the church shortly after they graduate from high school. The problem is not only with the church and its program-oriented, marketing-driven growth philosophy, but also with parents, who have abdicated their role and responsibility in teaching, discipling, and nurturing their children in multigenerational faithfulness. The result is that the secular post-Christian culture has claimed the children and youth of America. When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3). We are encouraged by the fact that God is sovereign, Jesus Christ is Lord and His kingdom is forever. As we believe God's covenantal promise, our opportunity is great in working toward reformation of the family, the church, and the nations.

This blog links to a wide variety of writings on biblical issues regarding the family, biblical roles and relationships in the family, the church, education, and biblical worldview including ethics, apologetics, history, politics, and culture. The blog was created to encourage biblical family reformation through development of a clear family vision of multigenerational faithfulness. Our duties as parents include sharing the gospel with our children, discipling them in the faith (Deut 6:7), raising them in the fear, nuture, and admonition of the Lord (Prov 9:10; Eph 6:4), cultivating in them a biblical worldview (2 Cor 10:5), and providing them with the necessary tools to recognize and engage an increasingly humanistic, post-Christian culture while glorifying God.

October 3, 2009

Alternative Education and the Future

Rev. Brian M. Abshire, Ph.D.

The Deplorable Condition of State Subsidized Education

We are now living with the fruit of 150 years of State supported education; a situation that should never have existed, should never have been paid for by tax money, and should never have become institutionalized (see Rushdoony’s Messianic Character of American Education). However, most Americans, with no real appreciation of history, simply accept the status quo because they know nothing different; many of us reason, “Well, that’s the way things are!” without questioning whether it is the best, or even desirable way to approach fulfilling our goals. But all one has to do is read the actual writings of the founders of American public education to realize that our present system was DESIGNED to replace Christianity as the basis of our culture. Men believed that “enlightenment” through “education” would cure all social ills-many of which they ascribed to religion. In many respects, American education philosophy was a vain attempt to have the fruit of Christian civilization, while ignoring the root. Rather than transformed hearts, the humanists in the 19th century believed man could be saved by “knowledge;” the ancient heresy of Gnosticism.

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