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SHOCKING FACT: 88% of evangelical Christian children are leaving the church and walking away from the faith within two years of graduating from public schools.

The reason for this is that Christian parents in America have given their children over to Caesar to be indoctrinated by a secular humanist, socialist, anti-Christian worldview “public school” system that is completely contrary to everything that the Bible stands for, to what Christian parents say they believe, and to the values, moral absolutes, ethics, and principles Jesus Christ and of the biblical Judeo-Christian worldview.

The vast majority of Christian children in America are not being educated according to Christ and his commandments, are not being discipled in the truth God has revealed in His Word, and are not being taught and mentored by their parents (or even by godly Christian teachers) according to the Biblical Educational Mandate as found in Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Matthew 28:18-20, and Ephesians 6:4.

Please take a few minutes and watch a YouTube video that was recorded at a Southern Baptist Convention a few years ago. Go to Google and type in the search bar, “Remove Christian children from government schools.” The video that comes up at the top of the list is 4:43 minutes long. Please watch this YouTube video as it relates to this article. The second person at the microphone is Roger Moran from Missouri, and the third person with the yellow tie is Bruce Shortt.

The topic is the culture war going on all around us between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness, between righteousness and wickedness, between Christ and the false gods of statism, secular humanism, and socialism.

Roger Moran makes a good point when he asked at what point the Southern Baptists were going to rise up and say, ‘Enough is enough!’?

Bruce Stortt makes an excellent point when he says that the Southern Baptists want to engage the culture, but what that really means is an abject surrender to the culture! He strongly disagreed with the leader of the convention who urged Christian parents not to remove Christian children from the public schools because that would mean removing a Christian witness from the schools.

However, the fact is that Christian children are being converted to the world in public schools rather than converting the world to Christ. The harsh truth is that we’re losing almost 90% of these Christian children to the world and their salt is being neutralized and their light is being extinguished! Jesus told his mature, adult, trained disciples to be salt and light in a heathen society, not children. Nowhere in Scripture are children missionaries. For decades now, many Christians have believed in the “salt and light” rationalization, but what do we have to show for it? The shocking truth is that Christian children in public schools are not converting the heathen, but rather, the heathen are converting our Christian children.

Shortt points out that in the California public school system, all children, including kindergartners, are being INDOCTRINATED to believe that homosexual, bi-sexual, and other sexually deviant lifestyles are moral, normal, and acceptable. Homosexuality is actively being mainstreamed in all government schools, starting from age five, and there are now over 3,000 school districts that have homosexual clubs in middle schools and high schools.

For an in-depth look at the immoral, unrighteous, anti-Christian, and destructive humanist indoctrination system called “public schools,” please read Dr. Bruce Shortt’s book, The Harsh Truth About Public Schools

Contrary to what many Christians have been led to believe, Shortt teaches that there is no such thing as a ‘neutral’ education for the simple reason that all education is religious and conveys a worldview that forms the beliefs and behavior of the child. Therefore, there is no more important decision that parents can make than how to educate their children.

Shortt points out that tragically Christian parents allow an aggressively anti-Christian institution to form the minds of their children, resulting in the reaping of much bitter fruit. This fruit is evidenced by the fact that the overwhelming majority of children from evangelical families leave the church within two years of graduating from high school. In addition, shockingly, only nine percent of evangelical teenagers believe that there is any such thing as absolute moral truth, and these same children are being forcibly indoctrinated in government schools to believe that homosexual behavior is acceptable and normal behavior.

I strongly recommend all homeschool parents to get a copy of this book to minister to their Christian friends, neighbors, pastor and skeptical relatives. This government-school habit that Christian parents have become addicted to over the years is sowing the wind, and unless Christians parents turn away from this unbiblical habit, they will reap a whirlwind that is unimaginable.

In his book, Shortt documents the dangers of public schools, saying the anti-Christian thrust of the governmental school system produces inevitable results such as moral relativism (no fixed standards), academic dumbing down, far-left programs, near absence of discipline and the persistent but pitiable rationalizations offered by government education professionals.

Shortt urges pastors and Christian leaders to read the book so they can understand why the church can no longer abdicate its critical historic role in the Christian education of its children.

This book makes it clear why no Christian child should be left behind in government schools. Shortt states that Christian children are perishing because parents and pastors lack knowledge. The information in his book exposes the mis-interpretation of ‘salt and light’ theology and the ‘our schools are different’ rationalization for educating Christian children in pagan schools for the misguided and destructive falsehoods they are.

Shortt believes that any parent or pastor who genuinely desires to be faithful in the education of Christian children needs to open his eyes to what the public schools are actually doing, rather than depending on what they say they are doing or on memories of the public schools as they might have been 20 or 30 years ago.