When You Rise Up: A Covenantal Approach to Homeschooling
by R.C. Sproul, Jr.
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Maintaining that education in the home amounts to discipleship, Sproul shows that seeing your children bear fruit for Christ and grow in His grace must be our primary goals.
"Sproul cuts through the haze surrounding the educational debate by offering a Biblical approach that is elegantly simple without being simplistic. I recommend this important work to Christian educators on all sides." -- Gregg Harris, author of The Christian Home School
"Sproul Jr. conveys both the necessity and the purpose of homeschooling for the Christian family, in an amiable and captivating manner, that readers will be startled to discover the foundations of secular education crumbling in their hearts. I highly recommend this book to all who are even considering the awesome call of homeschooling, or those who have forgotten why they started." -- James McDonald, editor, Homeschooling Today Magazine
"When You Rise Up by R.C. Sproul Jr. is a mandate to every Christian for homeschooling. He points out that, according to Deuteronomy 6, we are to teach our children when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you rise up in the morning. According to Robert Louis Dabney, "True education is a spiritual process. It is the nurture of the soul. Education is the nurture of a spirit that is rational and moral."
Dr. Sproul maintains that we must examine our goals for our children in light of that biblical mandate to train and raise our children in the nurture of the Lord. He feels that today, too many Christians have left that job up to the state or Christian schools.
If education is discipleship, who do we want discipling our children? What do we want them discipled in? Dr. Sproul says our first goal should be to have our children embrace the work of Christ. Our second goal should be to have them do the work of Christ, to pursue his kingdom. While we want smart and godly children, character is the highest goal.
Dr. Sproul says that if God gives us children, He will also give the ability to teach them. All that is needed is the Bible along with the format of our everyday lives to raise moral, well-educated children who love the Lord and want to serve Him. Dr. Sproul offers a biblical outlook for homeschooling, covering many of the arguments against it.
In this day of growing bias against anything Christian, perhaps it is time to fully look at our reasons to let others train up our children. This book provides us that perspective. -- Linda Demorest, Christian Book Previews.com
