Posted on 06/02/2009 7:28:14 AM PDT by achilles2000
Good for them! I support our local Catholic school, so have no extra educational dollars to send to Baptist schools, but I wish them well.
The article said — “... a resolution to the Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention urging Baptists to remove their children from government schools and, instead, give them a Christian education.”
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Well, that’s long overdue and something that should have been done by Christians a very long time ago — pull out of public schools and leave them to the sewers, like they are.
Southern Baptists should have been building their own school system years ago, as Roman Catholics and Mo. Synod Lutherans did. Without the support of Baptist families and Baptist public school teachers, government schools in Texas and the South would be in tough shape.
Exodus Mandate stirring up the education discussion as the SBC heads for its Annual Meeting in Louisville June 23. Ping
You are absolutely right...
The SBC needs to focus on newer educational models than traditional schools. We’ll see how innovative they are.
The SBC has ruined almost all Baptist churches in the northeast Texas region. Don’t put much stock in what they have to say.
I guess we will have to see what the SBC actually does. There is a fight going on internally between the “hip” emergent church wannabees and the traditional Baptists - which is a different issue from education, of course
On the contrary, Christians need to focus on OLD educational models, those given by the Bible.
Any “innovation” should be directed at following God’s direction within this contemporary society, so that our children are “in the world but not of the world”.
“hip” just means being world-friendly,
and we were sufficiently warned about that. (James 4:4 for one)
So have PCA Presbyterian....we saw the handwriting on the wall too.
I think you assume I was refering to content. I was merely suggesting that instead of starting traditional schools, as the leadrship is probably thinking, tey should look at university model schools, academic homeschool coops, Christian oneroom school houses using (Christian) distance learning, etc.
My kids attended a Baptist school 30 years ago.
There were at least 3 operating in our area at that time, within a metro area of about 150,000 population.
Even back then, vouchers or aid to parents with kids in church schools was being discussed. Our Pastor informed everybody with kids in the church school that if any parent ever accepted aid from the gov because their kids were in church school they would have to withdraw their kids from the school.
It was a sound policy then and in my opinion, still is.
Yes, and I have a friend who will be working to bring the issue to a head in Louisvile...the SBC emergents are mainly just theological liberals who are trying to camouflage themselves by claiming to be “inerrantists”.
The only way to defeat Liberalism/Marxism is to dry up the revenue.
***The SBC needs to focus on newer educational models than traditional schools. We’ll see how innovative they are.***
Like “University Model Schools”. I teach at Grace Prep in Arlington, TX which was the first of now 32 UMS schools.
Parents covenant with the school to “school/homeschool” elementary students, who only meet on TTh, and to heavily supervise secondary students, who meet MWF.
The the classroom space need is half, most teachers are part-time, and thus the cost is about half that of a traditional Christian school.
What’s cool is that there are more and more Christian colleges popping up to serve the homeschool community.
Patrick Henry College was founded by Michael Farris, founder of HSLDA and a Constitutional lawyer.
By the time my kids are ready for college, there will either be plenty of choices for “homeschool friendly” colleges and online universities,
or homeschooling will be illegal, and we’ll be in CWII.
“inerrantists”?
As in, they claim to hold to the inerrancy of the Bible?
To be liberal, you have to totally reject that concept because biblical truth and liberalism are totally opposite. I don’t get it.
So is anyone running odds on it passing this year? They’ve been sending something like this up every year for the past 5 years. It seems that it has more backing but it hasn’t been a winner before now.
Not an SBC member. Just an interested bystander unfamiliar with the internal politics of the SBC.
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