Gary DeMar at the following web site http://74.255.56.30/blog/?p=113 is asking that home schoolers leave stories about their successful adventure in homeschooling. It seems Gary has an antagonist who hates God and His Christ who has written to Gary suggesting that Christian homeschooling is only good for providing hewers of wood and drawers of water (toilet cleaners) for our culture.
Note here that the anti-thesis is becoming increasingly clear. Those who educate their children in a decidedly Christian fashion are hated by those who are epistemologically self-conscious in their support godless government education.
In our situation of homeschooling we have graduated all three of our children with GPA’s between 3.8 and 4.0. My eldest daughter did her first two college years at the local community college and received her Associate degree with a GPA of 3.95. She now works as a private tutor for an area family who is homeschooling their children. She has traveled all over the country in this capacity. She is now making plans to finish her last two years of college.
My second daughter worked last year with developmentally disabled children. Currently she is overseas doing missions in Romania and Ukraine. She has excelled in music and when she returns from his missionary work she will start her college through online accreditation
My youngest son just graduated high school. He has been hired by NASA in order to find mistakes in the engineering trajectory formulas for lift off fuel implosion. He will be splitting his time between that and serving as a junior adviser on the McCain campaign for under twenty voter issues. OK… so Anthony isn’t working for NASA nor is he advising the McCain staff. He is however working diligently this summer to earn money for college.
The most important reality though about my home schooled children is that they don’t think like pagans. Whatever Christ calls them to they will be equipped to re-interpret their field Biblically. My children aren’t perfect. They remain sinners, but they are sinners trusting in Jesus who seek to think God’s thoughts after Him.
“The most important reality though about my home schooled children is that they don’t think like pagans. Whatever Christ calls them to they will be equipped to re-interpret their field Biblically.”
Amen and Amen.
Presumably, Christians do not want their children to be stupid. Feeling inadequate themselves, and believing that stupidity is relieved by amassing information from a variety of fields of inquiry, many Christians send their children to public and private schools.
But what does the Word of God instruct parents to do to ensure their children are not idiots? It says to discipline them in the fear and admonition of God.
Epistemology has always been the tempest in a teapot, whether in turning five talents into ten, or burying all that we have been given in cold and dank darkness. Those who train their children to know the God of the Bible and to trust in His commands and promises are fashioning longspears that will drive out the Enemy to immeasurable distances. Those who forsake the Scriptures for the wisdom of contemporary culture will learn a great deal about this present world (which is passing away), while becoming broken cisterns and bent blades–unable to retain the truth that flows from the Living Water, and unable to combat the errors that threaten the Church of God.