To All Christians

AN APPEAL TO ALL CHRISTIANS

As a Christian with a Biblical worldview I have fought for those things that I believed would extend the Kingdom both in the political and legislative arena for over 40 years, but the tide of battle is still going against us. An excellent example of this is that pro-life activists have demonstrated by word and by deed that they are committed to upholding the word of God. Nevertheless, the number of abortions has not changed significantly over the last two decades.

Fighting for the good frequently crowds out fighting for the best, and I could give many examples of this. I’ve come to the realization that the reason my efforts, as well as that of many Christians has been ineffective is that we’ve been largely hacking at the branches rather than at the root of the problem that’s producing the evils in our nation. The institution producing most of the problems in America is the public (government) school system. Public schools have indoctrinated generations of children to believe in secular humanism and socialism.

Now these secular humanists are serving in our courts, our legislatures, the news media, the entertainment industry and even in our churches. Unfortunately the church has largely ignored the detrimental effects which public schools have upon children, or have spent time and energy in the hopeless task of trying to improve government schools. A. Hodge, of Princeton Theological Seminary said in 1887:

"I am sure as I am of the fact of Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling engine for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, social and political, which this sin rent world has ever seen."

Consequently, I’ve decided to spend all my time, energy, and money in educating and encouraging Christians to remove their children from public schools. I believe children should be home schooled or Christian schooled based upon the following:

1. Abortion is monstrous. However, an aborted child is held blameless, and is a partaker of God’s grace. He is not subjected to a school system that may take his salvation from him.

2. It is the responsibility of the parent to "train-up" the child. Pr 22:6, Deut 6:4-9. Martin Luther stated, "There is nothing which will more surely earn hell for a man than the improper training of his children; and parents can perform no more damaging bit of work than to neglect their offspring, to let them curse, swear, learn indecent words and songs, and permit them to live as they please. .. it is highly necessary that every married person regard the soul of his child with greater concern than the flesh which has come from him, that he consider the child nothing less than a precious, eternal treasure, entrusted to his protection by God so that the devil, the world, and the flesh do not steal and destroy it. For the child will be required from the parent on Judgment Day in a very strict reckoning."

3. By placing a child in an anti-Christian environment where children are taught to honor false gods, parents are dishonoring and disobeying God’s command on a day to day basis. Whenever there is a blatant disrespect and disobedience of and for Gods Word, God has promised that prayers will not be heard. Isa 10 1:15 If Christians within a nation do nothing and remain silent about the sins of the nation promoting these evils, God has also promised to pluck up and destroy them.

4. Children who die at an age of accountability, and who have not repented and accepted Christ as their personal Savior will perish in their sins.

There are tens of millions of Christian children in public schools who are devastated spiritually, morally and academically by the indoctrination of secular humanism and socialism taught within these schools on a daily basis. A study done by the Baptist Council on Family Life in 2002 stated: 88% of children from evangelical homes who attend public schools will within one year of graduation from high school leave the church, and many never return! Another study demonstrated that 96% of homeschooled children accept Christ as their Lord and Savior. Professor R. L. Dabney of Union Theological Seminary said,

"The education of children for God is the most important business done on earth...Every parent especially ought to feel, every hour of the day, that, next to making his own calling and elections sure, this is the end for which he is kept alive by God – this is his task on earth."

II Co 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?"

But this is exactly what we do when we send our children to government schools.

I pray that all Christians spend at least a portion of their time working to save all children – both the born and the unborn. That they inform parents that placing their children in public schools devastates them spiritually, morally, and academically. That Christians encourage parents to remove their children from Pharaoh’s schools. We must also encourage home schooling and the establishment of good Christian schools. Doing this will save millions of souls, and perhaps even save the nation.

Rather than be discouraged, we should be reminded that it is our duty to be faithful, and to leave the outcome to our Lord. I Co 15:58 If you would like further information I’ll be glad to provide it.

"There are a thousand good things you can do for your country, but there is but one Best! Thus, beware of "Good Things," for "Good Things" has always been the greatest enemy of "The Best." Therefore, "Good Things" can destroy your country and your future.
Roy Branson

Remember, Public Schools Devastate Children