THAT'S IT! (Though, I am way past "vaguely dissatisfied" with what I see going on, and I do know how to articulate it. I just can't find anyone to listen to me. Or find any way to do something about it.)
30:27 "Getting Christian kids out [of public schools] should have happened a long time ago." Yes! I was saved in the late 80s. I did not grow up in a Christian family. I had just a few months left before high school graduation. Even at that young physical and spiritual age, I suddenly realized... everything I've ever learned was a lie. A bit of hyperbole, but not by much. I realized I had to unlearn so much. I realized I had to think in an entirely different way. I realized that I'd wasted my whole life sitting in classrooms without anything remotely resembling a biblical worldview. I didn't know the term "biblical worldview." Or even the term, "worldview." I just understood what had been done to me. No one had to say this to me. I didn't (first) learn it in my church. It was a realization as I read the Bible and sought to obey, "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." Christians so often forget the MIND part. As I continued growing spiritually, I could not understand how Christian parents could have their kids all day, five days a week, in a place that didn't talk about God at all. And that was at a time when American culture was not nearly as hostile and explicitly anti-Christian as it is now.
This is an extremely helpful message.
THAT'S IT!
(Though, I am way past "vaguely dissatisfied" with what I see going on, and I do know how to articulate it. I just can't find anyone to listen to me. Or find any way to do something about it.)
30:27
"Getting Christian kids out [of public schools] should have happened a long time ago."
Yes! I was saved in the late 80s. I did not grow up in a Christian family. I had just a few months left before high school graduation. Even at that young physical and spiritual age, I suddenly realized... everything I've ever learned was a lie. A bit of hyperbole, but not by much. I realized I had to unlearn so much. I realized I had to think in an entirely different way. I realized that I'd wasted my whole life sitting in classrooms without anything remotely resembling a biblical worldview. I didn't know the term "biblical worldview." Or even the term, "worldview." I just understood what had been done to me. No one had to say this to me. I didn't (first) learn it in my church. It was a realization as I read the Bible and sought to obey, "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." Christians so often forget the MIND part. As I continued growing spiritually, I could not understand how Christian parents could have their kids all day, five days a week, in a place that didn't talk about God at all. And that was at a time when American culture was not nearly as hostile and explicitly anti-Christian as it is now.