Why do you homeschool?
I gave some thought to this question years ago when my children were very small. Because I wanted to be prepared to give a reason to those who asked me. (1Pet.3:15)
I wanted to be gracious and humble, without seeming condescending to those who were in public school. I understand there are some Christians whose parents send them to public school. These youth have no choice. And some of them are shining testimonies there for Jesus. There are likewise some Christian parents who send their children to public school because they are up against financial constraints and don’t see any way out. They believe they have no choice.
I am very thankful for the opportunity to homeschool, and don’t want to seem haughty or proud about what God has enabled us to do. I do believe that there are some true Christians who are teachers in the public school, and are witnesses for Jesus in that hostile environment. I do believe that God could even call them to such a position in this anti-God system. Just as he called Daniel to be in the service of Nebuchadnezzar- the emperor of the most wicked empire on earth.
So having said that, the reason we homeschool is because our worldview demands it.
If one believes that God is the Creator of the world and the
very meaning of life; then there is a way of looking at every subject in the
context of Christ. There is a way
of looking at Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, Biology, Art, and every
subject with God being the very center of it.
In public school, you just can’t do that. Public school is overly concerned
with keeping religion out of it. As an
aside though, they are totally inconsistent. Because they have no problem
teaching the theory of macro evolution, which is actually not science, but is
also religious. Let me explain:
Christians believe, “in the beginning God”. Evilutionists believe, “in the beginning a Big Bang”. Both believe what they believe; by faith.
Neither was there to see it. Neither can prove it. Both are looking at the same geology, same fossils, same evidence. Both interpret data according to their particular bias- Creationism is biased toward God, Naturalism is biased against God. The facts don’t speak for themselves- they need to be interpreted!
The evolutionist will mock the Christian for believing that
God is eternal. (where did God come from?)
Yet they hypocritically believe that matter and energy is eternal. (where did
the Big Bang ingredients come from?)
So actually, the atheist/evolutionist view is just as religious as the Christian view.
And the Christian view is just as scientific
as the atheist view.
The Bible says, “ the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom. (Pr.9:10) Ultimately those who remove Christ from education are, “professing themselves to be wise, have become fools”. (Rom. 1:22)
Everyone homeschools their children to some degree- some just do it full time!
Homeschooling gives us opportunity to travel. A trip to the Grand Canyon is history, geography, art, health, physical education, maybe even a little mechanics/physics if we get stuck or have a break down.
Some people claim home-schooled children lack socialization. But regular trips to a college campus to preach, exposes them to people from various cultures, religions, worldviews, and pits our beliefs in an open (and often philosophically hostile) forum against the beliefs of others. So much for home-schooled children being, “brain-washed”!
An unintended benefit of home schooling is it’s a lot safer! As our culture continues to teach children that they are mere random chance by products of evolutionary processes; they believe there are no moral absolutes, no God, no Judgment Day, no Hell, no sanctity of life, and no purpose in their being. Some are growing up and acting consistently with those beliefs. They steal a gun and shoot up a bunch of teachers and fellow students. Of course the answer is to teach them to fear God. Instead the news media says guns are the problem.
Yet the Bible says:
“Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: But it shall not be well with the wicked, neigher shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.” Eccles. 8:11
“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto they children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thing house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up… Twice- Deuteronomy 6:9 and again in 11:19
If you’ve never seen the documentary; “Agenda- Grinding America Down” , I urge you to see it.