Adults and foreigners get one message. The kids in our country that are imprisoned in our “schools” get the “sneaky” message.
Solution: Get government OUT of the education business!
Believe me, there is nothing watered down about the Word of God. It is absolutely perfect and complete in every respect which is noted over and over again in the Bible.
Many of the NT’s and Bibles handed out by the Gideons don’t contain the Plan of Salvation. The one that does for certain is the Personal Worker’s Testament which is handed out by Gideons and used for personal one on one evangelism. It is very similar to the school NT but instead of red it is brown.
Believe me there is no watering down just the omission of a man-made tool to aid in personal evangelism. There’s nothing sneaky about standing in front of a classroom and sharing the gospel before distributing the NT’s. The Gideons’ like the classroom distributions because they have a chance to speak to the kids and tell them what it is they’re handing out and the importance of the Bible. THey’ve attempted to tailor their approach so as to get into as many classrooms and get the widest hearing possible.
In many, many foreign classrooms the demand for Bibles can’t be met. Over 50mm are distributed overseas every year and it has become the primary reader in many schools around the globe. THose school officials are begging the Gideon’s for school distributions.