Is Private Christian Education Right for Your Child?
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Posted on 26-10-2024 05:19 PM
Who’s responsible? you shall love the lord your
god with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that i command you today [that is, a whole-life love for god] shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ( deuteronomy 6:5–7 ) he established a testimony in jacob and appointed a law in israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them,.Heaton, timothy l. , "common core state standards pros and cons: what’s a christian to do?" (2015). Education faculty presentations. 284. Https://digitalcommons. Cedarville. Edu/education_presentations/284.
I grew up in a very white area of west michigan. I went to christian schools my whole life, including calvin college. Most of the non-white students i came into contact with on a daily basis had been adopted by white families. And though i had almost no experience with anyone who was different from me, i never thought of myself as racist. But i do remember one chilly winter afternoon, seated in the calvin college field house watching the infamous calvin/hope rivalry play out on the basketball court, looking around me at the sea of white faces cheering and thinking, “is this what the kingdom of god is supposed to look like?” the bible explains the kingdom of god repeatedly as made up of a diverse group of people from every tribe, language, people, and nation (rev.