Posted on 11/19/2014 7:15:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
World renowned evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, the founder and chairman of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said that our children are growing up in a “lawless and wicked age,” infused with the “philosophy of the Devil, who says, ‘Do as you please.’”
Further, rearing children in this culture is difficult because “we have taken God out of our educational systems and thought we could get away with it,” said Rev. Graham. “We have sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind. We have laughed at God, religion and the Bible.”
Reverend Graham’s commentary, first broadcast in August 1955, was published in the November 4, 2014 issue of Decision magazine, under the headline “Raising Children in a Godless Age.”
“Many Christian parents are becoming fearful that they cannot properly train their children in this lawless and wicked age,” and are asking, “What can I do with my son? My daughter?” said Rev. Graham.
“We are beginning to reap what has been sown for the past generation,” he said. “We have taught the philosophy of the Devil, who says, ‘Do as you please.’ Behaviorism has been the moral philosophy of much of our education in the past few years.”
Rev. Graham continued, “Many of our educational leaders sneer at the old-fashioned idea of God and a moral code. Movies feature sex, sin, crime and alcohol. Teenagers see these things portrayed alluringly on the screen and decide to go and try them. Newspapers have played up crime and sex until they seem glamorous to our young people.”
One of the fundamental problems, according to Rev. Graham, is the failure of parents to fight “the Devil in the home” through discipline and, as a result, “children are allowed to go wild.”
Parents must spend time with their children, set a good example for them, discipline them, and teach them to “know God,” said the pastor, who has five children and 19 grandchildren.
“If you fail to discipline your children, you are breaking the laws, commandments and statutes of God,” said Rev. Graham. “You are guilty not only of injuring the moral, spiritual and physical lives of your children, but of sinning against God. The Bible says that if you fail to discipline your children, you actually hate them.”
The best way to influence your children, he added, is to set a good example because “the majority of children acquire the characteristics and habits of their parents.”
As for teaching your children to know God, Rev. Graham said, “Very seldom do parents have trouble with children when the Bible is read regularly in the home, grace is said at the table and family prayers take place daily. Most trouble with teenagers comes from children reared in homes where prayer is neglected, the Bible is never opened and church attendance is spasmodic. Christ gives the moral stability, understanding, wisdom and patience needed to rear children.”
There is only one solution to combating the problems afflicting young people, concluded Rev. Graham, and that answer is Christ: “Christ in the home, in the lives of the parents, is the only permanent solution to the menacing teenage social problems in America.”
Church every Sunday and daily prayer “will solve 90 percent of the problems you have with your children,” he said.
For teens who want true joy and happiness, and not the temporary intoxications of today’s sinful culture, they should turn to Jesus Christ. He “can give you the greatest happiness, the greatest adventure and the greatest thrills you have ever known,” said Rev. Graham.
Billy Graham, 96, has been preaching the Good News of Jesus Christ for the last 60 years in the United States and around the world. Over the decades, his message reached an estimated 2.2 billion people through 400 preaching crusades in 185 countries on six continents.
Although Rev. Graham is retired and spends most of his time at his home in Montreat, N.C., he and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association recently released the film Heaven: A New Message From Billy Graham, as another step in his life-long mission of evangelization.
Franklin Graham, also a pastor and one of Billy Graham’s sons, says that his father has good days and bad days and is still reading the Bible every day and praying frequently. Bill Graham turned 96 earlier this month on Nov. 7.
Kind of reminds me of the pResident...
“we have taken God out of our educational systems and thought we could get away with it,”
Isn’t that what Sunday school is for? They are still functioning as far as I know. As for public education, why should I pay to educate my kids in your religion?
The devil has invaded America and some just don't get it.
Let me be the first to bid you good-bye.
“To educate a man in mind only, and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” Theodore Roosevelt
“The Bible was America’s basic textbook
in all fields.”
“Education is useless without the Bible” [Noah Webster
Why should I have to pay to educate your kids at all? let alone pay to indoctrinate them into the cult of the left which itself amounts to a religion?
Sunday School is for religious instruction in the denomination of your choice. Prayer at every activity is a commandment incumbent upon every human being. Prayer to and acknowledgment of the One true G-d is what the whole creation gives forth at all times, and should be on the lips of every child on the face of the earth. Soon, it will be a living reality. You should pay double if you are an unbeliever, because it will take extra effort to counteract the bilge you have contaminated your children with.
We don’t have to teach anyone’s religion in public schools. But what’s going on now isn’t the answer either. Moral relativism quickly degenerates I to the teaching of outright immorality. Perhaps we could just teach some basic morals ( without quoting them from KJV or NASB or NIV or any of the others). I think this would be something worth pushing for now. The kids are being trained that mor values are somehow silly or old- fashioned Ungood.
What religion would you prefer?
America was founded on Judio-Christian principles, and don't debate me on this, it's a fact, Jack!
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See #10.
Would teaching ALL religions be acceptable to you...MEH
For years, the ACLU fought to get Christianity out of the public schools. Now, Islam is being taught and nothing is said. Teachers are encouraging the students to recite the Shahadah, which is the Islamic declaration of faith. I fear what this country is going to look like in twenty years.
He didn’t just say Public Schools - he is talking about schools as a whole. Even religious schools have gone the same way - whether by pressure from the government or because they no longer require their teachers to be exemplars of the faith. He doesn’t say teach either. When kids can get in trouble for praying or the mention of God is not allowed in school other than to blaspheme then that is what he means when he says removal from the education system!
One shouldn’t be naive enough to hold the idea that we just have a neutral bunch of educators who offer no opinion on religion in Public Schools. Some are actively engaged in anti religious teaching and propaganda despite the will of the student’s parents.
You are right in saying that Public schools are not there to teach religion for people nor should they take it upon themselves to tear down and demean religion or form children’s minds against the beliefs of their parents - but they do! They are also not there to suppress or prevent the free expression of their student’s love or belief in God either but they do. There are probably a lot of things these schools should not be doing like holding events that teach about fisting and perverted sexual behaviors but they do!
I imagine there are more things to get bent out of shape about then Ms Whatshername teaching kids about Noah’s Ark or mentioning Christmas and the birth of Jesus in school like maybe promoting the Islam as the Religion of Peace every chance they get but maybe that’s just me!
Amen!
Thanks for those quotes.
End public schooling, and that perennial tug-of-war will vanish.
The schools have not been corrupted. They are true to their roots. The answer is to repudiate the institution altogether.
Gee, you went quiet all of a sudden...
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