by Bret Capranica | Sep 7, 2010 | Education, Featured Articles, Marriage and Family, Pastoral Ministry
Educating Our Children from Bret Capranica on Vimeo. How should we think about educating our children, especially in light of the very strong convictions held by those in home schooling, private schools, and the public school system? Parents Are Responsible In God”™s plan, I think the Bible is clear on who is fundamentally responsible for teaching children: parents. Deuteronomy 6 indicates that parents are charged with teaching children God”™s ways throughout the normal flow of life. Ephesians 6:1-4 clearly lays responsibility upon parents to raise their children in God”™s wisdom and ways. Parents are responsible for their children. This seems fundamental, doesn”™t it? Thus, it is not ultimately the church”™s children”™s ministry that is responsible for teaching our children about God. It is not the student ministries of the church that is chiefly charged with a teenager”™s spiritual life. Neither schools (private or public) nor even the church, as an institution, are ultimately the overseers of who, what, when, where, why, and how our children are educated ““ parents are. That”™s who God charged to be responsible for a child”™s education. Options are Legitimate Parental responsibility does not demand parental involvement alone. Certainly the church”™s children”™s and student ministries can be an asset to our children”™s learning more about God. Pastors and teachers are charged with spiritual instruction within the church ““ children included. Thankfully, parents are not mandated to teach calculus to their children. But they are charged with being responsible for being involved in who will teach them. Responsibility to oversee a child”™s instruction does not demand that no one else be included in instructing a child....
