Lessons Learned From Years of Homeschooling

Today while driving, I heard a Christian talk show host and his guest, a local pastor, discuss the “negatives� of homeschooling. Both noted that at one point they had homeschooled their children. In so many words, they indicated that failing to place children in the public schools demonstrated an isolationist mentality that was antithetical to the gospel of Jesus Christ. The pastor made the outrageous statement, “My Master would have put His kids in public school.� He supported this statement by indicating that Jesus was against the Pharisees and their false piety. His solution was for families to learn how to deal in the “real world� by going to church, Sunday school, Wednesday evening service, and many other “church� events that would arm parents so they could prepare their children for the missionary work of spreading the gospel in the public schools.

It cannot be stated too often or too strongly that the “real world� is the world where Jesus Christ is Lord over every area of life and thought. Any other world is the world of myth, falsehoods, and deception. What naiveté to assume that Christian children can learn any academic subject honestly and correctly if the Word of God is not the foundation and starting point, let alone act as missionaries. What arrogance to claim that Jesus would want children in the hands of God-haters in their formative years.

With friends like this, who needs enemies!