Saturday, January 28, 2006
My P.O.E.
"I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place their child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the word of God must become corrupt." Martin Luther, A.D. 1537
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That's an interesting quote from Dr. Luther. However, even Christian schools hardly allow the Scriptures to reign paramount. It seems to me that the community of family and church is where most learning of Scripture should be. Schools may have been able to bear that responsibility in the 1500s, but I don't think it applies in this day in age.
That is an unfortunate fact about Christian schools. I think in those cases they are simply providing a secular education with a few external things added.
If all things find their fulfillment in Christ, then anything that is removed from that context becomes a disjointed fact. No subject can be fully understood apart from Christ.
On the other hand, noone can teach without conveying some sort of world view. It might be a pretty meaningless worldview in which nothing has an ultimate purpose, but whatever it is the parent is responsible for allowing their child to be taught that. They could work to counteract such influence, but that is hardly an ideal.
When it comes to the profound blessings of nurturing children in the Lord and the curses of not, this is too much of a risk.
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