Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind . . . thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Mt. 22:37-39

And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon him.   Luke 2:40

No one understands the value of a single life more than the Lord Jesus Christ whose life paid so costly a debt for each of ours.  He put a new value on the individual.

 Since Jesus, no one can hold a little child and be unable to say, “Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.”  This is the seed of the Christian idea of the child.

To have a Christian view of the child is to see the eternal and infinite value of each and every one.  And it is to realize that education forms the character and conscience of the individual child.  

As adult Christians in this generation, we are sowing for the future Kingdom of God.  And as parents, teachers, grandparents, and pastors, we are accountable for what we sow or allow to be sown.  There are only two ways to sow—for the world system or for Christ’s kingdom.  Education will either thoroughly secularize and de-Christianize the minds, hearts, souls of our children—or it will positively consecrate them to Christ. 

Because the obvious choice is to bring up our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, to relinquish them to a pagan system of education is not just unfaithful to the Lord, it is heretical.  For too long the under-lurking philosophy of education in our secular schools has eroded the efforts of Christian parents and gnawed at the very fabric of American life by training our children away from Christian character and conscience. 

The prophet Samuel knew that it took a generation to turn the nation Israel back to God.  He established schools of the prophets where he trained not just the priests and teachers, but the businessmen, the workers, the soldiers, the tradesmen in the Word of God.

Christian parents and teachers capture a vision for their children that springs from the Christian idea of the child.  They should give children the responsibility of Christian leadership by preparing them to take their places in His Story with the full strength of the Gospel permeating their hearts, minds, souls and might.

One single life has infinite and eternal value. How are your children being educated?