Reformation Without Tarrying For Any
Deconstructing the Coliseum: Teaching the Christian worldview, including how the civil government has no God-given right to operate a school system.
There is a popular assertion to first reform the civil government school system; but popularity does not equal propriety. The fact is that even if the civil government school system could be reformed there is no need to reform it for the sake of Christianity. This is because we have immediate access to external liberty in the Free Exercise Clause. The external liberty must be leveraged to spread the gospel – the message of internal liberty. By using the freedoms we already have we can have reformation without tarrying for any.
Excitingly, the Free Exercise Clause is ahead of the curve – it precludes squandering resources on undoing thirteen years of liberal indoctrination. It treats the sin disease (the civil government’s inherent liberal indoctrination) and not the symptoms (the result of thirteen years of liberal indoctrination). The Clause negates the necessity of expending resources first on unteaching the various liberal worldviews. Moreover, no legal action is required to begin utilizing the Free Exercise Clause, and no legislation must be enacted, since family and church government education is possible in all fifty states.
Finally – and most importantly – the Free Exercise Clause facilitates an offensive approach; that is, merely living out the Christian faith, without having to convince Establishment Clause gatekeepers (like judges, legislators, school principals and teachers) of the God-given right to Christ-centered education. This is the spirit of we do not need man’s approval to say that we do not need man’s approval. We can have reformation without tarrying for it, via the Free Exercise Clause.