Dear Parents,
There has been a movement in our society for the last 40 years to remove God from the public school education; the battle cry of these proponents is "Separation of Church and State." (What these people mean by this phrase is different from what the founding fathers meant when they drafted the 1st Amendment.) Secularists say this because they want values and divine absolutes left out of education. In other words, in math class just teach math; in literature don't make moral judgment on promiscuity found in a reading assignment. They say that everything has to be neutral.
The reality is that there is no neutral ground. Jesus said that whosoever is not with Him is against Him. Because of the sin curse, all of creation tends toward evil. So to be neutral in a value judgment is to side with an evil agenda, and that ultimately is what the secularists want. The modern classroom takes this direction. Students are taught values by the silencing of right values. Unfortunately, they are taught to adopt the values of the secularists. In so many cases, the modern classroom is learning wrong values, both implicitly and explicitly.
At Bethel we believe in teaching biblical values to our students, and we fulfill that agenda every day. Students are going to learn values. If they are not taught the right values, then they will learn the wrong values. But there is no neutral ground. We believe in siding with the Bible and in teaching our students right values.
Sincerely,
Pastor Sutton
There has been a movement in our society for the last 40 years to remove God from the public school education; the battle cry of these proponents is "Separation of Church and State." (What these people mean by this phrase is different from what the founding fathers meant when they drafted the 1st Amendment.) Secularists say this because they want values and divine absolutes left out of education. In other words, in math class just teach math; in literature don't make moral judgment on promiscuity found in a reading assignment. They say that everything has to be neutral.
The reality is that there is no neutral ground. Jesus said that whosoever is not with Him is against Him. Because of the sin curse, all of creation tends toward evil. So to be neutral in a value judgment is to side with an evil agenda, and that ultimately is what the secularists want. The modern classroom takes this direction. Students are taught values by the silencing of right values. Unfortunately, they are taught to adopt the values of the secularists. In so many cases, the modern classroom is learning wrong values, both implicitly and explicitly.
At Bethel we believe in teaching biblical values to our students, and we fulfill that agenda every day. Students are going to learn values. If they are not taught the right values, then they will learn the wrong values. But there is no neutral ground. We believe in siding with the Bible and in teaching our students right values.
Sincerely,
Pastor Sutton