The goal is to raise children to the glory of God, which means that their faithfulness to Him and their maturity in Christ is the single most important thing. “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.”  We do not have to look far to see many shipwrecks of Christian young people who headed off to the college or university for a lot of wrong reasons.

I have been more than a little involved with the revival of Christian education in America over the past 40 years. Its growth and development have been remarkable and powerful. Many parents have recognized the essential nature of a Christian education and have made the sacrifices to provide (when possible) both home schools and Christian day schools as some of the means of achieving this important work.

R.L. Dabney is worth hearing again on this:

The education of children for God is the most important business done on earth. It is the one business for which the earth exists. To it, all politics, all war, all literature, all money-making ought to be subordinated; and every parent especially ought to feel, every hour of the day, that, next to making his own calling and election sure, this is the end for which he is kept alive by God—this is his task on earth.

And so, I must start with a commendation to all those who have done what they can to provide a Christian education for their children, often under difficult situations.  Having homeschooled as well as been the founding chairman of two Classical Christian schools and served on the board of a classical Christian college, I know firsthand that the dedication and sacrifice of many people is required to accomplish this “most important business done on earth.”

Commitment to inculcating a biblical worldview is a long-term construction project.  We take our children to church, instruct them at home, and (in many cases) enroll them in co-ops or schools where they will be immersed in, not only Christian instruction, but also in Christian culture.

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