On Being Saved by a "Truly" Christian School (8-30-04)

The latest edition of the American Family Association's Journal has a story about the increased momentum among Southern Baptists to leave the public schools. Though T. C. Pinkney's resolution failed to be approved at the Southern Baptist Convention as it met in June, the Exodus Mandate movement appears to be growing.

Now we are being told that removing your child from public schools and placing them in a private Christian school is not enough. We must learn to distinguish "between Christian schools and 'truly' Christian schools." "Truly" Christian schools are identified by their rejection of "secular" education and approval of religious indoctrination.

Such schools are vitally important because, as E. Roy Moore says, "If we save our children, we may save our churches. And having saved our churches, we still, at this late hour, may have saved our nation. So we feel this is an agenda for revival and renewal and the re-Christianization of America."

It appears to me that these Baptists are proclaiming a salvation by indoctrination. Whatever became of the gospel that was shared "by the foolishness of preaching?"