Secure the border, secure Internet connections...what about securing our children's minds? Everyone is talking about the U.S. borders not being secure - illegal aliens streaming over our borders, about securing our broadband connections from hackers, and I was just curious about the silence of securing our children's minds. Has anyone been paying attention to our most precious treasure being assaulted on a daily basis by the equivalent of illegal aliens - a failing education system, drugs, violence, teen pregnancy and immoral attacks on all levels? Our children's spiritual borders are being left unguarded, and this assault is during the most critical years of their lives when it comes to learning about becoming a whole person when they become adults. The Southern Baptist Convention to their credit has developed a resolution "to warn their members concerning the toxic spiritual nature of the government school system". The resolution further calls on churches to "become aggressive and proactive in starting Christian schools and in supporting homeschooling". That is a wake-up call and others need to be sounding the alarm across our nation. Securing broadband Internet connections cannot be more important than securing a loving realtionship with our children, instead of them forming a relationship with the blurred PG-13/R rated broadcasts coming from the television. Parents, family, neighbors, and friends should be sounding the trumpet about protecting our children's spiritual borders. See more info here: http://www.earnedmedia.org/gtko0531.htm it is a website called the Christian Communication Network and details the SBC's resolution. This site also has a link to http://www.getthekidsout.org/ a grass roots effort to educate parents about the loss of morals in the public school system and the full resolution. A moral education is the first defense our children should have against everything else, they need the ammunition to make the right choices when it comes to drugs, violence and when to start a family - which is where the confusion starts that creates teen pregnancy in the first place. A second pillar of defense is a proper relationship with your child as each one is a different person and needs respect, love and wisdom for that individual. These pillars help develop a foundation that can withstand practically any assault our children have to face in the world today and in the future. If the Southern Baptist Convention is drawing up a resolution advising parents to take their children out of public schools, then at least we have someone paying attention. Their needs to be a far louder alarm sent to parents everywhere to get our children into a quality environment where they can learn moral values and will not be restricted or challenged for exhibiting moral values. This is an issue that needs to be addressed like no other as it is already too late to ignore with the large number of children being negatively affected by the forces trying to brainwash them to make the wrong choices. We all need to remember - to train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6) |
