"The
Call to
Jan. 13 2009
Christian Newswire
Is not the cause of the corruption
and decay of the US Education System the fault of the Church? Is this not the
net result of the church having abandoned its mission to preach the Gospel to
every living creature in the
Were we not commanded to preach in
the cities, to go into the slums, to go to Liberal bastions, to fearlessly enter
Muslim enclaves, to bring Jesus Christ to Gay communities, Mormon Strongholds, and
Jewish communities?
The bible believing and
Spirit-filled church is and has been visibly in full retreat since the early
1970’s surrendering community after community, town after town, and now state
after state to the lost and to be more precise the ungodly.
This surrender and retreat can be
likened unto
One does not have to be too
prophetic to see that this is exactly what is happening in this nation.
Last week I saw an article that
What of all of those that have
proclaimed themselves to be mighty prayer warriors, and all of those who have
declared themselves to be powerful in their conducting spiritual warfare? How many people could these amount to in the
My experience with such people has
been less than impressive. I have heard their prayers, their storming the
gates, their war hoots, their war dances, their binding and releasing things,
their pushing principalities back and forth, over many, many hours, over the
course of years.
Yet in all actuality these people
that I knew did not witness to one person a month, they did not witness to one
person in three months, in six months in a year, in two year or even three
years. The reason why was they believed and still believe that witnessing or
what they call the salvation realm is beneath them. Hear what I have to say here. They believed they
had a higher calling, and a higher ministry than bringing people to the feet of
Jesus Christ. They believed that it was only for lower realmed
pastors, teachers, and Christians to go out (And soil themselves with the
unwashed) and preach the gospel one on one.
When I look at this behavior I do
not see those mighty in spirit and in deed, I see the Parable of the good Samaritan,
I see the dirty ill informed Samaritan bringing the wounded and dying in this
world to Jesus Christ, put them up in housing and paying out of their pocket
for their food and needs until there are spiritually well enough to begin to do
likewise.
If we do not feel constrained to
speak to our friends and neighbors about the love and wonders that Jesus Christ
has done in our lives – the love of Christ does not dwell in our hearts.
A person that does not speak of
Christ much less proclaim His name from the rooftops
has heart problems.
How can we let our friends and
neighbors much less the children in our neighborhood eternally perish without
lifting a finger? If we raise our children in a godly home to be lights, what
is the toll to the unsaved children in those schools?
Two or three years ago I was in a Christian
chat room and at the time I mentioned that I had some sons that were in public
school and had witnessed to some of their fellow students about Christ. Oh the
women that were in that room called me a bad father, irresponsible, they told
me I did not care for my children and the only thing to do was to pull them out
immediately and to home school or put them in a Christian school.
I had home schooled my oldest son
for three years for 1st 2nd and 3rd grade but
I could only do so much and offer my child so much, We then put him in a Christian
school for two years where he was picked on and made fun of by a number of
other paying students, when we put him in public school all that stopped and he
did quite well, and in the evenings we discussed what was taught in his
classes, liberalism, environmentalist, gay rights, animal rights, and we
discussed what was wrong with what was said, he was taught retorts, he was
taught how to research and write and speak and question rightly what was being
presented, he actually successfully countered some of his teachers to the point
that he changed some opinions on things as he presented solid data. My son was
stronger than those around him and influenced them in many ways from having
premarital sex to many other notions kids come up with, he also passionately spoke
about Christ in a number of occasions to fellow students that would have
otherwise never been spoken too.
The school system is a great
mission field where the students are free to talk about Christ and even hold
bible studies and prayer meetings in school.
I did so myself in high school with great effect. Another one of my sons
held a bible study for two years in high school.
We speak about warfare, we recite
the verses on spiritual warfare but if we do not stand up and walk in the
trenches we have done nothing. We stand before the Lord disobedient and
fruitless just as the fig tree.
We therefore strenuously disagree
with the great spiritual retreat and vacuum that do this will create and
instead propose that all the fearful and weak handed and weakened parents who
have hid their children in home school and Christian school pull them out and
flood the locals schools with their Christian children and work with them
closely that they may effect their schools and teachers with their faith and
witness for Christ. And see what that over time will do for the local community
for their town for their city for they state and for their nation.
Because of the comprehensive and
accelerating failure of the government school system, Exodus Mandate has
launched "The Call to
A key stumbling
block preventing some Christian leaders from openly calling for the long
overdue exodus of Christian families from government education has been the
mistaken belief that traditional Christian schools and homeschooling
are the only alternatives to government schools.
Consequently, a central focus of
"The Call to
Exodus Mandate recently launched
"The Call to
Many small Christian ministries
and organizations support the K-12 Christian education or home schooling agenda
for renewal of family, church and culture.
In the past, however, some of the larger Christian organizations,
denominations, and pro-family ministries have mistakenly supported public
school reform rather than calling for an exodus of Christian families from the
rapidly disintegrating public school system.
Fortunately, these ministries are beginning to see that school reform
efforts are futile given the manifest failure of school reform and the
continued cultural deterioration.
Dr. Bruce Shortt
commented saying, "A lot of time has been wasted on school reform. You can
no more reform the government school system than you could reform the Soviet
collective farm system. The model is a mistake. Conservative school reformers
are a lot like Civil War re-enactors who specialize in Pickett's Charge. They
never take the high ground; they never really win. What we need today is new
leadership."
Dr. Voddie
Baucham challenges African-American families saying,
"Black families ask me, 'Why should we leave the public schools after our
forefathers fought, marched and sometimes died for us to have the right to
attend.' My response is simple, our forefathers fought, marched and died so we
wouldn't have to settle for the kind of education inflicted on minority
children today. We need to march some more. And the first place is out of the
front door of these Christ-dishonoring, academically inferior, soul-killing
government indoctrination centers."
Dr. Bruce Shortt
added, "The Left has always understood that whoever controls the children
owns the future. This is why so many of the 60's radicals like Bill Ayers went
into education. Now they effectively control the government school system. But
worse, we give them our children."
Chaplain E. Ray Moore points out
that the 2008 elections conclusively show the failure of the "lobbying,
voting and legislative model" most of the pro-family movement have relied
on to slow down and reverse the cultural and spiritual slide in the
E. Ray Moore, Chaplain (Lt.Col.) USAR Ret., Director of the Exodus Mandate Project;
Dr. Bruce Shortt, lawyer and author of THE HARSH
TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOLS; Dr. Voddie Baucham, Southern Baptist pastor, conference speaker on
family and home education and author of FAMILY DRIVEN FAITH will serve as the
principal spokesmen for this special one year emergency rescue plan.
To arrange an interview or
speaking opportunity with Dr's Bruce Shortt, Voddie Baucham or Chaplain E. Ray
Moore, contact Exodus Mandate at www.exodusmandate.org
or by phone at 803-714-1744 (wk).