Reformed Christian Education: Is It Isolationist?

Christians (like myself) who call upon fellow believers to remove their children from pagan state schools (even if they are sprinkled with a little bit of Christianity), and to immerse them in a throughly Christian and Reformed system of educational training, are often portrayed by those in the Reformed faith (who wish to ignore God’s word as it applies to education) as promoting some sort of ‘new monasticism’ by encouraging Christian parents to take their offspring out of the world. Yet anyone who has ever taken the time to read books by Reformed authors on Christian shooling and Home education knows that nothing could be further from the truth. Before totally misrepresenting other people, Reformed educational autonomists should question their own motives for rejecting Christian education. Have they come to this position as a result of honest and objective exegesis of Scripture, or is it because they are too lazy and unwilling to fulfill their God-given responsibilities? – and so, they choose instead to sacrifice their children on the altars of humanistic education (remember that secular humanists regard state schools as their church’s).

The reality, however, is that Reformed education (particualary if guided by the positive aspects of Christian Reconstruction) seeks to train covenant children, not to withdraw from the world like ascetics, but to ‘fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth’ (Gen. 1:28). Reformed education is not, like Fundamentalist education a mere withdrawal from pagan state schools, but Biblical training for the covenant child in which he is taught to bring all things into subjection to Christ’s Lordship. Every subject, whether it be science, economics, political theory, history, philosophy etc., is to be taught from an explicitly Christian and Biblical standpoint so that the covenant child will bring ‘every though into captivity to the obedience of Christ’ (2 Cor. 10:5 NKJV). State education, on the other hand, does not train children to serve the Lord, but instead to be good Social Democrats, submissive to the egalitarian, socialist and humanistic laws of the false god which is the modern totalitarian state. The goal of Refomed education however, is to train up children in the ways of Lord so that they will be equipped to serve Him, and bring everything into subjection to Him, in their calling as adults.

Our aim as promoters of Reformed Christian education is not to flee into isolation, but to advance Christ’s Kingdom on the earth. State education, with its heathen, anti-Christian, egalitarian, statist, socialist and humanistic agenda is ultimately out to destroy the Kingdom of God, and erect a man-made utopia on earth. Consequently, Christians who send their children to its schools are clearly playing into the hands of the Secularists and Statists as they are failing to train their children to exercise dominion under God, and, in turn, promoting the deification of the modern state.

It is time for Reformed Christians to awake out of their pietistic slumber, stop making excuses, and start obeying God’s word; which, in practical terms, means removing their children from state schools and giving them a properly Christian education

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