WorldNetDaily: Baptists revive anti-public-school resolution

This resolution is similar to one unfortunately voted down last year at the SBC annual meeting. Essentially it says that no Southern Baptist ought to keep his kids in the public schools.

So, you ask, what makes the anti-public-school activists so sure that they will prevail this year? Simply this: the nay-sayers said that a Christian child in public school represents "salt and light" to their school chums. But the proponents now have evidence that 88 percent of all Southern Baptist kids who graduate from public schools end up leaving the church.

Small wonder, given this finding in the resolution:

Government schools are by their own confession humanistic and secular in their instruction, [and] the education offered by the government schools is officially Godless.

But as a former member of an SBC church, I see more than that. The SBC engineered a "top-down revival" of their denomination. They still have a lot of liberal pastors and deacons to deal with, and they can't fire them; that violates the Baptist "Distinctive" of autonomy of the local church. And as long as those liberal pastors and deacons are in place, children in those churches are not going to get nearly enough Christian instruction to counteract public-school influences. Those pastors and deacons don't even recognize a problem when it stares them in their faces. They even compromise on the teaching of evolution, just as they compromise on the role of women in the church and the appropriateness of modern women's fashion.

Until, therefore, they replace the glass walls of their own house, all the stones they throw at the public schools will avail them nothing. Ultimately this decision rests with individual Baptist churchgoers. My decision was to get out of the SBC entirely and join an independent Baptist church. I would advise every other Baptist who cares enough about this appalling situation to do the same.