Baptist 'exit strategy': Groundswell of support for exodus building

WorldNetDaily ^ | 10/20/2006 | Bob Unruh

[achilles2000]

If you like sexually transmitted diseases, shootings and high teen pregnancy rates, by all means, send your children to public schools. That's the word from a leader in the fast-growing movement within the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention for parents to pull their children from those schools in favor of homeschooling.

Pastor Wiley Drake

The program is called Exit Strategy and Pastor Wiley Drake, whose home state of California has done some things especially offensive to Christians this year, is a leading promoter.

In an interview with WND, he said that those problems and others are prevalent in public schools, and some Christian leaders even have said it could be considered child abuse just to register children in such a facility....

[achilles2000]

The problem is that if everyone did this, what would happen to freak dancing and cheerleaders? The end of civilization as we know it...

[voletti]

Good, good.

Lib controlled schools are the root of the comie/leftie problem ..

[Lunatic Fringe]

"If you like sexually transmitted diseases, shootings and high teen pregnancy rates, by all means, send your children to public schools."

Gee, it's so not like the Baptists to use fear and hyperbole to direct the actions of their congregations!

[sportutegrl]

In Philadelphia, the schools now have a "Gay History Month".

[Tribune7]

The more who pull themselves from the indoctrination centes the weaker will be the influence of the indoctrinators.

[Cicero]

It's a real shame that the "spirit of Vatican 2" led to the closings of so many parochial schools.

But I think we are reaching the point where a majority of voters may be willing to say that they should not have to pay taxes to support swinishly wasteful and badly run public schools AND pay to educate their children privately.

Not to mention the fact that in the cities numerous blacks and others attend parochial schools on scholarship even though they are not Catholic.

The whole education business needs to be reinvented. If the Baptists pull out, that will be a major step toward revaluating the entire system.

[unspun]

Gee, it's so not like the Baptists to use fear and hyperbole to direct the actions of their congregations!

Try: use the truth to inform their independently Christ-minded, congregationalist, peers in the priesthood of believers.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Try: use the truth to inform their independently Christ-minded, congregationalist, peers in the priesthood of believers.

LOL!!!!

Oh man, that's rich!!!

[Axlrose]

You seem to fear the word.......

[Dracian]

16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention for parents to pull their children from those schools in favor of homeschooling.

With a congregation that big, they ought to be able to start up some sedcular schools of their own. Homeschooling is actually pretty demanding. Not that many people can handle it.

[Lunatic Fringe]

[achilles2000]

Au contraire, homeschooling may require less instructional time that the typical parent wastes conforming his and his family's life to the demands of government schools. With the curriculum and support that is available, anyone can homeschool----as long as he wants to. For most, it is just a question of priorities.

[unspun]

You don't know much about Baptists.

Suggestion: don't advertise your ignorance.

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

I speak as a Southern Baptist.

1.) Home schooling ain't that difficult. Parents should not be scared off from it, as there are many great resources - many will educate the parents about the Christian foundations of our country. (My wife and I home schooled our kids for several years.)

2.) NO church organization ought to seek as much influence as the SBC is. God's Word tells us the parents (primarily the father) are the folks He holds responsible for educating the kids. The church is to support parents - without much regard for which school the rug-rats go to.

3.) The SBC is heading down the path to irrelevance, being more concerned with social ills than with discipleship. Welcoming purpose-driven, seeker-sensitive, and emergent doctrines that tear folk away from Scripture in favor of pleasing man.

4.) Therefore, we ought to have confidence only in Almighty God - the three-in-one creator and sustainer of our souls.

[unspun]

Lunatic, research demonstrates that homeschooled Christian children out test the stuffing out of national averages.

Once again, you display a marked ignorance, yourself.

What causes you to come here and campaign against Christ-influenced people who seek private education -- here in FR of all places?

Glutton for punishment?

[Lunatic Fringe]

You don't know much about Baptists.

I was raised Southern Baptist, thank you.

Suggestion: don't advertise your ignorance.

Follow your own.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Lunatic, research demonstrates that homeschooled Christian children out test the stuffing out of national averages.

Post this research, please. I'd like to see it.

[unspun]

Then take your peculiar personal struggle elsewhere. I suggest to the Lord.

[em2vn]

It's evident you didn't learn much while a Southern Baptist.

[maine-iac7]

Gee, it's so not like the Baptists to use fear and hyperbole fact and understatement to direct the actions of their congregations!

There. fixed it...