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Many Southern Baptist Agree On Need For Private Christian Schools
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The Southern Baptist Convention is Finally 'Throwing in the
Towel' on Government Schools - Do Private Christian Schools
President and Executive Director of the SBC Executive Committee
Proposes Major Expansion of Christian Schools by Churches
Contact: Exodus Mandate, 803-714-1744
COLUMBIA, SC, June 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- In 2004 Brig. Gen.
T.C. Pinckney, USAF Ret. and former 2nd Vice President of the
SBC, and Dr. Bruce Shortt, Houston attorney, opened a debate over
education by submitting a resolution to the Annual Meeting of
the Southern Baptist Convention urging Baptists to remove their
children from government schools and, instead, give them a Christian
education. Although the Pinckney/Shortt Resolution was met with
howls of execration from many Christian leaders, and the Resolutions
Committee prevented it from being voted on by the Annual Meeting,
the Resolution initiated an important debate over education, both
inside and outside the SBC.
Despite the Pinckney/Shortt Resolution's hostile reception, in
2005 Dr. Albert Mohler, President of the SBC's "flagship"
seminary, Southern Theological Seminary, called for the SBC to
develop an "exit strategy" from the government's schools.
(www.albertmohler.com/commentary_read.php?cdate=2005-06-17)
Since then other Christian leaders have endorsed, in part or in
whole, the call to provide Christian children with a Christian
education.
Now, the SBC has come full circle. In an article that recently
appeared in The Baptist Messenger, Dr. Morris H. Chapman, president
and chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention's
Executive Committee, called for churches to provide many more
Christian elementary and secondary schools as alternatives to
the government's schools.
The anti-Christian moral teaching within government schools was
among Dr. Chapman's chief motivations for calling for a major
expansion of Christian education: "In far too many public
schools throughout the country our children are being bombarded
with secular reasoning, situational ethics and moral erosion."
Moreover, Dr. Chapman sees the need for greatly expanding Christian
education as urgent: "In recent days, two questions have
weighed heavily on my soul. If Southern Baptists don't do it,
who will? If we don't do it now, do we risk forever losing the
opportunity to build schools for God's glory and the future of
our children, grandchildren and the land we love?"
To implement his vision of a major expansion of Christian education,
Dr. Chapman advocates two initial concrete steps. First, he identifies
the inner cities as places where a Christian education ministry
is much needed and would be welcomed. As Dr. Chapman sees it:
"In such areas, Kingdom schools would serve as a central
ministry among a myriad of ministries that would help families
recover from the chaos that now exists and help them establish
Christ in the home."
The Need for Private Christian Schools - Southern Baptist
Second, Dr. Chapman calls on every local Baptist association
to create new private Christian schools: "Why shouldn't we have at least one
Christian school in every Southern Baptist association that merges dynamic biblical
principles with academic excellence? At minimum, a number of Southern
Baptist churches in the same association could band together to
create an outstanding Christian school for the area. In our voluntary
fellowships with each other, Southern Baptists still have shown
themselves uniquely structured and resourced to take on such a
challenge. Elementary and secondary education is an area we can
add to how we cooperate in missions and ministries."
Dr. Chapman's proposal has been warmly welcomed by Dr. Shortt,
the co-sponsor of the 2004 education resolution and of education
resolutions in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008: "As the chief
administrator of the SBC, Dr. Chapman's voice is extremely powerful.
With his recent call to greatly expand private Christian school education among
Southern Baptists and others, Dr. Chapman has, in effect, laid
out the first step in the "exit strategy" called for
by Dr. Mohler in 2005. All Christians should note this sea-change
in sentiment within the SBC. The spiritual, moral, and intellectual
pathologies of the government school system are now obvious even
to casual observers. Christian parents and pastors need to ask
themselves just how much longer they intend to render our children
to Caesar's spiritually dark, morally decaying, and physically
dangerous government schools."
Martin Luther Warned Us About Schools
The change we are seeing in the Obama Administration has resulted more
darkness and pushing of ungodly agenda will teaching little children
to accept homosexuality as normal as well as in the breakdown in moral
barriers of pre- marriage sex. Most children, even from Christian
homes, will see their children destroyed morally.
Read these quotes from Martin Luther:
"Since then your majesty and your lordships desire a simple reply, I will answer without horns or without teeth. Unless I am convinced by Scripture and plain reason- I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other- my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe."
Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.
The Holy Spirit himself and God, the Creator of all things, is the Author of this book.
But be assured that no one will make a doctor of the Holy Scripture save only the Holy Ghost from heaven.
There is not a word in the Bible which is extra cruem, which can be understood without reference to the cross.
"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them on the hearts of youth. I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution in which men and women are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt"
Martin Luther 95 Thesis
Martin Luther
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