more comments for Scott

Scott, you’ve turned into a welcome regular here. Thanks again for dropping by.

12:15 PM, Scott W. Somerville said…

I’m not expecting to change your position on homeschooling, so let’s consider how one can advance the Kingdom in public schools. If I understand your overall position, you are suggesting that Christian teachers should seek jobs in public schools, so that they can use their position of influence to try to convert the children in that classroom. Is that right?

I wrote back in the comment area…

At 9:42 AM, PA said…

I don’t know where that came from. But that’s not what I am saying at all. I’m saying that Christian parents should be involved in their local public schools. We have many teachers at our church who work for various public school districts. You can be salt and light and not present the gospel in every class. As far as I know, a teacher is able to share their faith if the student instigates the line of conversation.

The more I think about this the more I realize that this isn’t what I meant at all. Perhaps I am just that bad of a communicator? Here’s some new lines of thought.

• Is my position reflective on the word of God. (That homeschooling and separation from the world are wrong?)
• If my position is incorrect, am I willing to change my mind?
• Am I just being hard nosed and not seeing any good in something just because of my own personal experience?
• Are all children supposed to fit into the same types of institutions or are we as a society OK with having total an institutionalized lack of institution? (School is a creation of man, out know?)
• Are my assumptions based on known facts or just my observations of having been around these different types of education?
• Is this a battle worth fighting? Ultimately moms/dads are going to chose to do their own thing and I have to figure out how I can support them even when I think they are wrong.
• Does this boil down to a grey area or is this a sin issue?

A final observation is that my friend Scott merely asks questions and rarely answers ones that I ask. Is that because he assumes he is more important than I am or is it just that he thinks that my position is so stupid that it’s not worth responding to. (Of course, another possibility is that he finds truth in my positions?) I don’t know. And I have much else to do.