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Finding Our Calling -- The Meaning of Life
Between kindergarten and high school
graduation, you attended Bible study and
church a maximum of 2,400 hours. Your Dad,
during those 12 years, devoted less than 312
hours of training you by personal attention.
There are the numbers (K-12). 15,000
hours of TV -- 2400 hours in Church -- 312
hours of personal training. So, you see, we
pass into adulthood mostly programmed by
secular influences. And so, I write now as one
who grew up in that secular world, not knowing
about New Testament Christianity, nor about
Christian education, nor of Harding University
until I was a young adult.
After being in this business for a quarter
century-- long enough to have taught some of
my students' parents (many of whom carried
pencil boxes and slide rules), it strikes me all
the more, that Christian schools and colleges
have become a highly sought after alternative
to the secular world from whence we came.
And, by the way, Bible-centered schools
existed in America 217 years before there were
public schools. Sometimes we are so close to
it that we can't see it. Did you know that 104 of
the first 119 colleges and universities of
America were founded by those who professed
Christianity and who wanted schools in which
those principles could be advanced? Of the
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