A newsletter published by the National Education Program, Oklahoma City, OK, contained an item titles For Your Information. Here is the item, as I noticed it:
"In the 1940's a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools as talking; chewing gum; making noise; running in the halls; not staying in line; wearing improper clothing; not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980's survey listed these top seven problems: drug abuse; alcohol abuse; pregnancy; suicide; rape; robbery; and assault."
Isn’t this just a sign of what happens in a nation when education becomes separated from Christianity – removing the presence and influence of God in the schools? Teaching the facts of mathematics or any other subject without teaching a value system is not enough. For example, sex education without a value system is insufficient. To show how to be safe in practicing fornication by using artificial means to prevent pregnancy is not enough. Somebody must teach that fornication itself is sinful, condemned in the gospel, and wrong for everybody in every form. To show how to keep from getting AIDS in regard to homosexuality is not enough. Somewhere along the line somebody must teach a value system that shows homosexuality itself is not approved by God, and is therefore wrong for everybody, always.
The time to wake up arrived a long time ago. We had better combine education with a system of moral values and with the fact that One True God exists, and this God cannot be mocked. "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man [or church, community, or nation] sows, that shall he also reap" (Gal. 6:7, KJV).
- via The Encourager, the weekly bulletin for the Dongola Church of Christ, Dongola, IL. Gerald Cowan serves the congregation as minister. He may be contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com
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