“The illusion of a Christian majority is now gone, and churches are going to have to articulate things they used to assume.”
This is going to be more difficult than it sounds. The first and most important challenge is for parents, who must devise ways of ensuring that they pass their beliefs and values on to their children. Gone are the days when the culture’s residual reliance on Judeo-Christian assumptions could reinforce what was heard in church and at home. Gone, in fact, are thousands of the churches. Instead, parents are faced with the task of teaching their children beliefs and values that run counter to virtually every cultural influence faced by children today: Hollywood films, the music industry, television shows, the state school system, and in many cases, even the government promote values that run directly contrary to the Christian worldview. Full article at Lifesitenews.com
What is more dangerous still is the fact that the state is making an active attempt to stand between parents and children, utilizing the public school system not simply to teach, but to pass on a new set of values, values rooted not in Christian tradition but in the Sexual Revolution. The state is insisting that their educational arm should teach children about sexuality, from their own perspective.
Christians have to discard the dangerous idea that they can permit their children to be educated by the state and still expect their children to retain Christian beliefs and values.