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REPORT ON EXODUS MANDATE (Proposing the Removal of Baptist Children From Government Schools) AT THE SBC CONVENTION

By E. Ray Moore, Jr.

Chaplain (Lt.Col.) USAR ret

www.Exodusmandate.org

(Report from  Indianapolis, June 13-16) - Our family  attended the SBC Baptist Convention as observers. Two members of our ministry, Houston Attorney, Bruce Shortt and T.C. Pinckney, Brig General USAF ret, former

2nd Vice President of the SBC,   sponsored  the now famous SBC

Christian education resolution for Baptists to pull their children out of public schools and only home school or put their children in Christian schools. This has become a major national news story in both the Christian and secular media. Millions are reading and discussing this issue now. Stories have appeared for weeks in 100's of newspapers all over the USA. On June 17, the story appeared again in many USA major dailies.

Bruce Shortt and T.C. Pinckney have given dozens of  interviews on Christian or secular  radio talk shows and in the print media. T.C. Pinckney was a guest on ABC National News onJune 15.  I have given some similar interviews too.

The resolution was introduced on the floor on  June 16 but failed to pass. With the resolution being introduced on June 16, we have definitely  advanced the "K-12 Christian education football"  by creating a major national debate in the churches over the necessity for Christian families to home school or place their children in Christian schools. We have challenged the churches, pastors and Christian leaders, not just in the SBC,  that they must begin to provide K-12 Christian education  services for their families and memberships. We have wounded the government school  giant, and things will never be the same again. The warning has sounded forth. A trumpet has been blown in Zion, and a new banner has been raised for the body of Christ.

See below a similar warning and predictions given by Princeton Seminary Professor, A.A. Hodge, entitled "Engine of Atheism"  in 1887 to American Christians as the state-sponsored public school system began to achieve dominance in America. Hodge was considered by many to be  one of USA's top theologians at that time. His essay shows that state sponsored public schools had not been the norm for evangelical Christians at an earlier time in

US history.

The SBC Christian education resolution sounds a similar warning  115

years later. These arguments have not changed.

Please follow these developments from Indianapolis and elsewhere over

next few years.  Although  the SBC resolution failed to pass on June 16, it was a major news story and partial victory that it was introduced and discussed.  It was not a defeat for our cause, as millions have heard our message and 10,000's will respond and join with us in the future because of the leadership of Bruce Shortt and T.C. Pinckney at the SBC in Indianapolis on June 16. We have defined the real issue for Christians now and our efforts are driving the education debate nationally and the culture of the Church.

The theological trajectory for the SBC on K-12 Christian education is good as so many of the young pastors are either home schooling or supporting Christian day schools.

Our prayer is  that Psalm 126 and Psalm 46:4,5 would be fulfilled with the children over the next few years. We trust that the Lord will  prosper the

Exodus Mandate Project and the growing number of allied ministries, churches and organizations who are advocating K-12 Christian education through home schooling or thoroughly Christian schools as the standard for all Christians and a key to the revival of our families, churches and our nation.

Blessings.

In His grip,

E. Ray Moore, Jr.

Chaplain (Lt.Col.) USAR ret

www.Exodusmandate.org

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