“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children…” Deuteronomy 6.6, 7

Americans today have become accustomed to the idea that the Bible has no place in the public education of the children of the land. We see, moreover, where this has led us as a nation. The specious invoking of the “doctrine” of the “separation of Church and State” has contributed to the ruin of American education, and this situation will only begin to be corrected when believers attain sufficient status and respectability to insist on a moral and spiritual foundation for the education of children based on all the counsel of God in His Word.

We will not be able to achieve this through the public schools – not at first. We must, therefore, begin in our churches, homes, and Christian schools to make sure that the Word of God, which is able to equip us for every good work, again serves as the foundation of all our curriculum and instruction, and that the Law of God comprises a prominent place in that foundation.

In this, as in so many other areas of public policy, Christians must take a long view. We must begin to strengthen the things that remain as good within our midst and to recover that which we have lost in the way of a Christian worldview. Returning to the Law and testimonies of God is only one aspect of the kind of renewal we need if we are ever to be a force for public policy that lines up more consistently with the Law and Word of God.

T. M. Moore

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