Recently, I had a conversation with a school official who purported to lead a “Christian School” and during our discussion this person shared with me the philosophy and strategy they used in educating the children who attend and I must say that I walked away from our talk very confused by this school’s definition of a “Christian School.” First, I learned that the curriculum they chose to use is a secular program of study and the question that immediately came to my mind is, “What is the purpose of a Christian school?” Are we simply isolating our children from the boys and girls whose parents do not attend church? It certainly seems that this is the case.
May I be so bold as to ask, what do we hope to accomplish through this? As the courses were outline that this school uses I was told that the science classes that the students were subjected to taught them evolution. Perhaps, I am the only one who believe this but evolution is not a theory, it is chapter and verse from hell. Why do we dismiss and minimize this fact? Is it that we are simply unwilling to even fight anymore? Evolution taught in a Christian school is an oxymoron as the two are diametrically opposed and can find absolutely no common ground on which to fellowship. It is logically impossible for this world to have been created by God and at the same time have evolved from nothing. Are we so afraid of being ridiculed by the likes of people such as Richard Dawkins and the supposed scientists in Ivy League Institutions that we fain belief that their propaganda is anything other than that?
As hard as it was for me to believe the things I was hearing I thought that surely this would be offset to some degree by their commitment to solid biblical exposition and teaching. You may image my utter disbelief to learn that while this “Christian School” does teach evolution, they do not teach the Bible. In fairness I must share that they do have a “devotional time” where the homeroom teacher offers an encouraging and inspirational thought that as best as I can discern is loosely and perhaps obliquely based on some sort of Bible type thing. In fact the response I received when I pressed to gain a clearer understanding as to what sort of Bible teaching took place was, “If you are asking if we do something like systematically go through the Bible, the answer is no.”
So the only thing that will matter for eternity, this “Christian School” has elected to forego, yet the one thing that will most readily secure the hellish destiny of those children i.e. the teaching of evolution they have embraced. The thing that our children need is not more “Christinanish” looking schools but followers of Jesus Christ to take seriously their responsibility to educate boys and girls for eternity. In fact I would submit that it would be better for a child to attend school in the most secular environment imaginable rather than being inoculated in this type of setting. At least there they could more clearly see the contrast.
