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DEAR FRIENDS OF EXODUS MANDATE:

       Please order this new book and circulate this message to your network and/or  E-list. Also, alert your pastor and other Christian leaders. Blessings.

       In His grip,

       E. Ray Moore, Jr

       Chaplain (Lt.Col.) USAR Ret

       www.Exodusmandate.org

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> From: CCNWashDC@aol.com

> Date: 2004/12/10 Fri PM 02:08:49 EST

> To: newsdesk@earnedmedia.org

> Subject: Press Release: Debate Over Christian Education in the SBC

> Intensifies Beca...

>

> Debate Over Christian Education in the SBC Intensifies Because of

> Endorsements of New Book

>

> To: National Desk

>

> Contact: E. Ray Moore, Jr. Director of Exodus Mandate, 803-714-1744,

> raymoore@exodusmandate.org; Dr. Bruce Shortt, 832-483-8882 cell, 713-654-8881 of

> Exodus Mandate

>

> COLUMBIA, SC, Dec 10 /Christian Wire Service/ -- When T.C. Pinckney

> and Bruce

> Shortt asked the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to consider a resolution

> urging Baptist families to pull their children out of public schools and

> provide them with a Christian education, many in the SBC leadership dismissed the

> message of the resolution.

>

> With the release of Bruce Shortt's book, THE HARSH TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC

> SCHOOLS, which details the arguments behind the resolution, ignoring the harm to our

> children done by public schools may no longer be possible. Some of the critics

> of the Pinckney-Shortt resolution may be surprised to learn that among the

> endorsers of Shortt's book are two key leaders of the conservative resurgence

> within the SBC, Dr. Paige Patterson, President of Southwestern Baptist

> Theological Seminary, and Judge Paul Pressler. Dr Patterson states, in part: "For

> those...with courage and a desire to know the truth this volume will be an

> incredible blessing."  Also, Judge Pressler said: "Bruce Shortt clearly and forcefully

> sets forth overwhelming evidence of the anti-Christian bias in parts of our

> public school system. This book is a must read for anyone concerned with the

> future of the United States."

>

> Among other endorsers of THE HARSH TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOLS are Dr.

> D.

> James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries, Chaplain (Col.) E.H. "Jim" Ammerman,

> representative to the US Military for 15 million independent church members, and

> Kenneth D. Whitehead, former Assistant Secretary of Education under Presidents

> Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

>

> In October-November Christian education resolutions were offered in 11

> state

> Baptist conventions (i.e. TX, CA, MO, TN, NC, SC, FL, VA, IL, KY, New England)

> motivated by the effort at the SBC Annual meeting in June 2004. Most were not

> accepted, yet the effort generated more coverage for the issue of K-12

> Christian education within the SBC. Media coverage of the SBC  state convention

> effort showed up in such major dailies such as the Miami Herald and The Columbus

> Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio on  December 2,3. The state Baptist convention  effort

> was coordinated by the Exodus Mandate Project.

>

> Despite the controversy over Christian education within the SBC, Bruce

> Shortt

> expresses confidence in the leadership of the SBC: "For more than 20 years

> the SBC has benefited from strong and godly leadership. As a result, the SBC now

> stands on sound doctrinal ground. The next step is to align our practice

> fully with our doctrine by cultivating faithfulness in the K-12 Christian

> education of our children. I am confident that the SBC leaders will come to see in

> time why Christian children must not be educated in public schools and that K-12

> Christian education, either Christian day schools or home schooling,  is an

> indispensable component of our obedience to Christ."

>

> Bruce Shortt will be a guest Lee Strobel's television program "Faith

> Under

> Fire" on PAX Network (Christian TV network) on December 18 to discuss his new

> book and the SBC Christian education battle. The times on December 18, 2004,

> Saturday Night, are as follows: 10:00 PM EST and PST and 9:00 PM CST and MST.

>

> Individual copies  of Shortt's new book THE HARSH TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC

> SCHOOLS

> can be ordered at http://www.chalcedonstore.com/. For bulk purchases, contact

> chorders@goldrush.com or call (209) 736-4365

>

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