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Witness Hour on WYLL 1160AM every Sunday at 8:00AM with Rev. Carl Haak
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Reformed
Witness Hour on WYLL 1160AM every Sunday at 8:00AM with Rev. Carl Haak
Today we are witnessing a striking thing in education in the United States: the arising of many private schools that call themselves Christian schools. In the past, only the Roman Catholic Church, some Lutheran Churches, and Reformed parents established Christian schools; the others were content with the public education set up by our government. Of late, many other churches and parents have been establishing Christian schools alongside the public schools. Many such schools have been established in the past few years in the South, but they are also springing up here and there all over our country.
It might seem that other churches and parents are seeing the light and that they are now one with us in carrying out the calling we have of educating the children of the church in the "nurture and admonition of the Lord" (Eph. 6:4).In many, if not most, of the cases, however, this is not so. They have not really seen the light at all. They are not really one with us in the cause of Christian education. The schools, although religious, are not genuine Christian schools. This becomes plain when we note the reasons for the establishment of many of these schools.
The reason for the establishment of these schools can be expressed in one word: dissatisfaction with the education of the public schools. This dissatisfaction is very widespread. It is found among many parents who are not Christians. It is, of course, well-grounded. Mainly, it has to do with the threats to the physical well-being of the children. Through the years, these people were not perturbed by the absence of God and His Word from the public schools, nor by the presence of atheism and evolution. But now, when the physical welfare of their children is threatened, they become concerned.
To read more about why the parents within Bethel want to start our own Christian school, click here.