The Christian schooling movement has many challenges. In this blog, I write about how we have hurt ourselves and our cause by not thinking biblically about the work of fundraising. When we adopt secular methods because "they work" we can miss the calling we have to raise up joyful and generous givers. God is not honored when we reduce our work to just getting funds without regard for the messages we send.
At a higher level, there is another recent challenge to the Christian schooling movement, the advent of classical charter schools. These are public schools that take advantage of the somewhat liberal laws for charter schools and they make an end run around Christian by hiring believers as teachers and use the Bible as "great literature".
In Galatians 6:7 Paul reminds us that God will not be mocked -that doing good is defined by pleasing the Spirit. Patch Blakely, Executive Director of the Association of Classical and Christian Schools exposes the flawed thinking of Christians who think you can have it both ways, classical with some Christian. Read his well-written article, It's Not Classical and Christian http://www.accsedu.org/ and about CCE.
Excellent Christian schooling is neither free or easy, nor should it be. If you believe that your school could use a little assistance, please visit http://www.advancechristianschools.com/ and see if mentoring would help you lead your school more effectively.
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