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TechnoratiWhile resolving to stand with the people of California to protect traditional marriage, the messengers refused to allow the much proposed school exit strategy to be added to the resolution. For the past four years, those who believe the way to win the battle to stop the advance of secularism in public schools is to withdraw from the battlefield have strongly suggested that we must demand that all Christians remove their children from the public school system. School exit proponents are right to decry the moral chaos that is being sanctioned by the California public school system. In October, the California Legislature passed and Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law SB 777, which now bans in both school texts and activities any discriminatory bias against those who have chosen alternative sexual lifestyles.
But calling for an exodus from the public school is not the answer. The solution is not retreat but a recommitment to retake the public schools for Christ. Our willingness to allow the encroachment of pure secularism, especially in the schools, has pushed the system to brink of collapse. We should repent for allowing our children’s minds to be inculcated with immoral ideas born from the unholy union of humanism and moral relativism. Jesus Christ has called us to engage the culture, specifically to be “in but not of the world.” In His prayer to the Father before being betrayed, Jesus, speaking of His disciples said, “I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.” He went on to clarify that our mission is to go into the world saying, “As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.” Certainly we shouldn’t simply send our children out into a hostile world alone. We should go with them and become the light that counters the darkness of the message they hear. We should be the salt and we should shine the light of God’s truth, knowing that darkness cannot overpower the light.
Whether standing for marriage for fighting for our children’s future we must stay in the fight bringing the transforming power of the Gospel to bear in every arena.
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Dr. Tony Beam is Vice-President for Student Services and Director of the Christian Worldview Center at North Greenville University in Tigerville, South Carolina.
