Lutheran High School Parker - Case for Christian Education

Lutheran High School Parker - Case for Christian Education
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The Case for Christian Education

If you were to list the most important thing that you are looking for in a high school, what would it be? Strong academics? Superior athletic programs? School safety? What is the one non-negotiable characteristic that your high school has to have?

Let’s do some simple math. The average high school student attends high school for 180 days for 8 hours a day (we’ll throw in an extra hour for athletics or activities.) That’s 1440 hours per year. Considering that the average teenager will be awake 3780 hours during the course of a school year, that means that approximately 40% of his/her awake time during a school year will be spent at school. That’s a big number.

The decision about Christian education really comes down to this:

Spend that 40% at a school that encourages growth in Christ.
Or
Spend that 40% at a school that wants nothing to do with Jesus Christ and promotes a non-Christian worldview.

The truth is that Christian high schools have the one thing that public schools will never have, and it is the most important educational tool ever – God’s Word (the Bible). God’s Word is used in Christian high schools for:

1. Salvation – Students will come to know Jesus as their Savior through their Christian high school experience.

2. Training – Students will not only learn daily about God’s grace, but also how to defend their Christian faith and what it means to be a Christian in today’s world.

3. Magnifying God’s glory – students will learn about how great God really is.

At Lutheran High School Parker, God’s Word is found in the following places:

Theology classes
Chapel three times a week
Regular academic classes
Athletic and activity team devotions
Small group Bible studies
In the advice of teachers and staff
All aspects of our operation

Current scientific research tells us that a teenager’s brain is not fully developed. An undeveloped frontal lobe explains certain teenage behavior: recklessness, emotional outbursts, poor decision making, etc. What this means for you is that high school plays a pivotal role in the development of the brain. High School will have an effect on how the brain is hard-wired.
The decision on whether or not to attend a Christian high school is really the choice between developing with Jesus Christ and developing without Him. Image for a moment…how different might your child’s life be if they develop without Christ at the center of their hearts and minds.

Now go back and look at what you think is the most important characteristic of the high school that you will choose. Is anything more important than developing with Christ?