Listening to some Christians, you would be led to believe that the public school systems in America were “The Great Satan.” These institutions are often disdainfully referred to as “the government schools”—as though there were something intrinsically evil about “government.”
Now, I fully realize that the issue of education is a legitimate debate—and I myself hold the personal philosophical position that private education is to be the preferred mode, (largely so that the theology may be better-monitored).
But to paint *all* of public education, something we must live with in the real world, with a black brush of death, is, I think, unfair. Some of the most wonderful people I have ever known teach and work in the public system.
The truth is: there are aspects of the public school systems, and the homeschool approach, (and perhaps even the private school), that children should be “saved” from. This is another area of where the church comes in, to be of assistance.
The Forum for Ecclesiocentricity is designed to educate Christians and non-Christians alike to understand the Biblical teaching concerning the Church (the "Puritan" church in particular), with regard to its principal role on the earth. When this is achieved, it is hoped that the Church would then be in a better position to convey Christ's redemptive virtues to the civil government (state), and the family. (You may email me at: markjhenninger@gmail.com)
