From the early church to the modern home, Christians knew how to raise their children… until now.

How Christians Educated Their Children

4th century: Biblical immersion
7th century: Biblical immersion
12th century: Biblical immersion
19th century: Biblical immersion
2024: 40 hours of state-run school + 1 hour of pizza-and-lights youth group, leading to indoctrination of secular values.

We didn’t evolve, we regressed, and worse—we slapped a Christian bumper sticker on it and called it “normal.”

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For nearly 1,800 years, Christian parents understood something the modern church has forgotten:

The education of a child is the responsibility of the family—before it’s ever the job of the state or the church.

Faith wasn’t supplemental, it was foundational.

A child’s soul was not a side project.
It was the mission, untainted by any form of indoctrination.

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Today?

Christian parents now hand their kids over to a godless system.
They marinate in gender theory all week.
Then we try to rebalance it with youth group pizza and a fog machine.

That’s not discipleship.
That’s spiritual abandonment, leading to unintentional indoctrination.

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Your ancestors would’ve called this child sacrifice.
In fact, they’d be right.

You think that’s too strong?

Let me remind you:
→ When you know something is poisoning your child…
→ When you know strangers are spiritually forming them…
→ And you still send them in daily…

That’s not neutral, it’s neglect.

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This isn’t a guilt trip.
It’s a wake-up call.

You can’t outsource the soul of your children!

Not to the government OR to the youth pastor OR to the Christian school (unless you’re still involved daily).

Deuteronomy 6 didn’t come with a delegation clause.

“And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children…” (KJV)

This means not passively, not occasionally but Diligently.

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If your kid knows algebra but doesn’t know Acts… if they can quote evolution but not Exodus… and if they’ve memorized Pride Month rules but not Proverbs…

That’s not an accident.
That’s an outcome.

And it’s time to fix it.

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Discipleship starts in the living room.
Not in the classroom.

So open the Bible.
Read it out loud.
Train them in truth.
Let them see you pray.
Talk about God over dinner.
Fill your home with Scripture and songs of the saints, thus safeguarding them from indoctrination.

Don’t just raise kids.
Raise disciples.

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The State isn’t neutral, the devil isn’t playing and your child isn’t a pawn!

They’re your stewardship.

Act like it.

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