Albert Mohler On Pre-Schoolers

While sporting some bling-bling, the rapper and Christian theologian, Albert Mohler, said this on his radio program:

A child at five is a very unformed little creature. I think kids at those young ages are not ready for institutionalized educational settings. I think this is what God made home for. I think the most important education a young child needs is the education that he/she receives from mom and dad, and brother and sisters at home.

The focus on this kind of secular academic achievement is very short-sighted for Christian parents. Our concern ought not so much to be whether they can read or add but whether they know anything about the Bible and the Christian faith. We have parents, that in generations past, would have been concerned with catechizing their children, raising their children, educating their children in the Christian faith, who now don't have anything to do with that. Instead they're trying to make sure they get into Harvard by getting in the right preschool.

What a harsh rebuke, but one that is desperately needed.

Last night I had the privilege of sharing the gospel with my daughter through the Old Testament. We read the account of God's judgment upon Israel for their complaining. He sent serpents to bite them. Many died from these poisonous snakes. But God provided salvation for the Israelites. Moses was to make a snake and lift it up on a stake. When someone was biten, if they looked upon the uplifted snake, they would live and be spared from God's judgment.

Jesus states in the John 3:14 that just as Moses lifted up the serpent, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. Just at the snake brought death and life to the Israelites, so too, Christ the Judge will bring death or life. If we do not heed the gospel and look to Christ surely we will perish eternally. If we look to the crucified and risen Christ, we too, shall live eternally with Him.

As a parent, I need to continually point my family to Christ. This is what my daughter needs to be educated in. More important than her secular education is her knowledge of the Lord so that she may behold Him and come to know Him as Savior.

May God helps Christian parents to be more diligent in educating their children in the scripture more so than many appear to be with educating them in the world.