Patience is a virtue
My excuses for those of you on which my frustration landed... I have to learn to be more patience and gentle and so on... even when it comes to my hobby-horse...!
Anyway, there is some news, so I would really value your prayers for us! Tonight we are meeting with a small church in Cheltenham about the prospect of renting their building to start our school. The idea is that if they agree, and every moves quickly (does anything ever move quickly in England??!) then we will start preparations immediately... Soi the school might actually start in January... What a thought!!
Sp please pray for us, that the meeting will go well, people will be honest (bit of a problem in Reformed England, I have noticed in the 6 years I have been here), and that it will be made clear to us whether we should move forward or not.
At home it is quite busy, as we have a young Dutch couple staying with us. They got engaged last saturday on Birdlip hill/Crickly Hill... what can be more romantic than that! It didn't even rain...!
It is great having them to stay though, he preached yesterday, and did very well!
Today is Jan's birthday. So we have got some special cake etc, even though we have to shoot off tonight, but I hope they will be back in time this afternoon, so we can have some time together to make him feel it is his birthday..
Anyway, there is a question I want to pose to you: Is a parent responsible for the education of their children (which doesn't mean they have to teach their children everything themselves) or is it allowed, Biblically, to hand over your parental responsibilities to others?
posted by Maressa @ 12:28 pm
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3 Comments:
You obviously CAN hand over responsibility, Biblically, but the question is to WHO?
An example of this is Samuel, but his parents handed him over to Godly Eli.
YES parents are responsible for the upbringing of their children - and that involves decisions about where to send them to school for which they are accountable to God alone.
Let us know how that meeting goes.
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I will not tread into a sticky situation here... In an ideal situation, the parents and the teachers in the church should teach their children (FB's example of Samuel and Eli). Historically, this was the general practice, at least in UK and definitely the States.
State education is novel but at least everyone gets the opportunity to be "educated". Problem is, in today's context, education can be more dangerous than useful.
Sadly (to the shame of Christians), the Muslims and some Catholics have excellent education which is all-encompassing, to include the indoctrination of the child with religious things. Pity we have neglected that duty.
Indeed.. I will be careful as well... But I think as Christians your first priority at a school is to make sure that your child is educated by other (preferably like minded) Christians.
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