PS. Kelly, I’m so glad you had that baby! Yay!

(short clip on schooling choices by Josh Harris)
http://truewomanhood.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/thread-five-all-things-patriocentric-karen/#comment-20578

*homeschool*
I was “lucky” as ps go. I went to a very tiny school. (I graduated with 15 other students) Because my school was so tiny and imbedded deep in the “bible belt” and A mostly christian comunity, we didnt have to much athiest or anti-christian views. Alot of things in the school were pro-christian. Even with this good ps experience I feel HomeSchool or Private Christian Schools are the only right answer. Our Country (USA) was founded on the ideas of free government, states rights, and little interference of government in peoples daily lives. Children should have NEVER been forced into PS. PS are a socialised comepletly un-necessary system. I dont think its what our forefather’s intended and died for. If you look back at history, the first American “public schools” were NOT government funded but funded by the people and the church. And they were typically in a church. Children learned reading and writing from the Bible. Public School is deffinatly not at all right for Children. As Christians we are to be set apart and diffrent. Others should be able to look at us and know we are Christian’s. Sending your children to public school to blend in with the latest fashion trends of immodest apperal and sexual behavior is certainly not diffrent. Homeschooling is an obvious praticle and biblical answer. As women we are to be ministering to our home and keepers of our home. What a better way to minister to your children than to give them a great education? There is no need for me to point out again all the wonderful and biblical reasons for home schooling that Kelly and the other ladies have shared.

*Abuse*
Abuse is a horrible thing that is unfortunatly prevelent all over our culture. As Christian’s we must call attention to this amoung our Christian brothers and sisters and help them. I do NOT feel that any significant number of Christian families “choose” to homeschool primarily to “cover up abuse.” I do however sympythise with those who have suffered abuse. It is far to often looked over in our Churches.

*Modesty*
This is one of my favorite topics! I have tons on my blog just dedicated to this subject! We as Christian women must not dress in a way that tempts our brothers or promotes lust. I encourage all Christian women to read the book “Bringing up Boys” in this book the author points out things about the way a man’s mind works that women just don’t think about. For example: A man can be VERY VERY provoked just by a split second glance of a women’s thigh ( I fear most of the shorts and skirts young Christian women are wearing reaveal more than that!) and can recall and “Contemplate” on that image at anytime. I want my body and my modesty to be saved and only revealed to my husband. My beauty is a precious gift I am saving only for him. I certainly do NOT want to dress in a way that allows another women’s husband to think of me in a lustful way. He should only think of his wifes beauty and my husband is the only one who should think of mine. Why, as a christian women, do you want to dress “sexy” and have men think Lustfully of you????!!!!! ( I could go on and on but I wont)

Let me make one last point.
A family walks into the resturant. The ladies are dressed modestly. The husband and young men are dressed nicely and modestly as well. There is something about this family. The moment you lay eyes on them you know they are Christians.
I dont know about you but I strive to be THAT family. I want the world to know I am a Daughter of Christ!

Blessings,
Tawny

PS- Bear with me and my many typo’s I am typing very fast and with a horrible headache…I just felt these things needed to be said!

Heather,this is exactly what I would tell people.If I could spell,type or string together a coherent sentence.

We could interchange other names there, but if you focus, instead, on the second part of the verse it is hard to rationalize your choices– “unto God’s the things that are Gods.” God is, was and will forever be the one whom we should render our children. They are not ours, nor the public property, they are the LORDS!!!!!!!!! This is why you will not see the Smith blessings in the godless public school system. They are with their parented being continually prayed over and trained up in the way of the Lord. Well… we are not perfect, but this is our goal.

Cottage Child–No worries. It was nothing personal on my end, I didn’t take it personally.

All Best,

Cathy

Honestly, I don’t disagree with anything he (or you) said. I absolutely believe that our form of government allows for us to be able to have a say and possibly even change the status quo. I believe it is wrong for our elected officials to be abusing and re-interpreting the Constitution because they consider it to be “outdated” or irrelevant. And I do not believe “majority opinion” trumps God’s Word as to what is moral.

At the moment, we have what we have and must pay taxes under duress. The legally mandated channels for us to be heard seem to have been short-circuited and current laws (right or wrong) require certain things of us as citizens, so I try to obey the laws (which do not contradict God’s)as well as I can even as I attempt to still use the provided means to make myself heard.

I personally am in danger of making the issue of government into an idol. It is very difficult for me to continually trust God while aggressively engaging in this area. I pray, try to stay informed and enter into discussion/petition etc when I feel God has specifically allowed or instructed me to.

In no way do I believe it is anti-Biblical for other believers to legally participate more deeply in government related concerns. If you know God wants you to and do not struggle with divided loyalties, I’m not going to try to stop you! )

Lori, I think you’re on to something with the misunderstanding of “Caesar”….there’s a time element there also, with regard to public education, that makes it clear the demand for our children is not merely for academic education.

Thanks. I had a link in there, so I guess that sent it to the spam folder. You’re so sweet! I appreciate that you want to clarify your intentions to me. You’re always pretty diplomatic though, so I wasn’t thinking that. I always look forward to your responses. Even when I disagree, you’re an example of how to conduct oneself online – an example I need to try to emulate more often!