Why We Homeschool – Our Core Reason, Our Vision
In our TOS Homeschool Crew forums, one of the members asked us our reasons for homeschooling. There are 250 of us in the TOS Homeschool Crew and there are as many reasons for each family. Here’s our family’s core reason for homeschooling our children:
“After that generation died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the Lord or remember the mighty things he had done for Israel.
The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight and served the images of Baal. They abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They went after other gods, worshiping the gods of the people around them. And they angered the Lord.”
Judges 2:10-13, NLT
When we were prayerfully considering homeschooling our eldest child, God gave me a vision for our children. The vision is that each one of our children will become leaders when they grow up, and they will be strong leaders for the body of Christ. Online casino Ireland. ###
I grew up in a non-Christian family with values that changed every time the wind changed directions. My husband, on the other hand, grew up with Christian parents who brought him and his siblings to church every Sunday. Still, the family values he grew up with was still askew. He remembers that they were not taught how to live the Christian life. He thinks that maybe it’s because his parents thought that taking them to church every Sunday was enough.
We started homeschooling with the desire to teach our children about God, how He loves us so much that He sent Jesus Christ to die for our sins. We wanted to teach them how to live a righteous life in God’s eyes. We desired for them to grow up seeking the will of God and obeying it in their lives.
In that vision, we saw how our present decisions will affect not only the lives of our children, but also the lives of the generations that will come after them – our grandchildren and great grandchildren and so on,
No, we don’t want any in our next generations to grow up with no knowledge of God and how great and mighty He is. We don’t want them to forget God’s faithfulness to our families. By God’s grace, every generation that will come after us will know and love God, their lives becoming a testimony for others that will bring praises and honor to God.
It is this vision that pushes us to keep on doing what we are doing despite all the odds against us. I pray that this vision will carry us through the years to come.
Speaking of our TOS Homeschool Crew, here are ten more of my crewmates’ blogs for your reading pleasure.
1. Second Star to the Right and Straight On Till Morning
2. Surviving The Testosterone
3. Family Style School
4. School Around The Bible
5. 1628 The Story of The Goebels 5
6. Morris Family Madness
7. Homeschool Musings
8. Homeschooling (and then some!)
9. Heartfelt Homeschooling
10. following Him home
