Oct 6.99: Light For The Day - "Partial Education"

"Train up a child in the way he should go, 
and when he is old he will not depart from it."
-- Proverb 22:6 (RSV)

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You can put a public school and university in
the middle of every block of every city in America 
-- but you will never keep America from rotting
morally by mere intellectual education.

Education cannot be properly called education
which neglects the most important parts of man's
nature. Partial education throughout the world
is far worse than none at all if we educate the
mind but not the soul. 

To think of civilizing men without converting
them to Christ is about as wise as to think about
transforming sinners into good people merely by
washing them and putting on them a nice clothe.

"Happy are the merciful: for they shall obtain
mercy. " The mercy the world needs is the
grace, love, and peace of our LORD Jesus 
Christ. It's His transforming and regenerating
power that the world needs more than anything 
else."

-- Billy Graham

Prayer:
Merciful LORD, may my life be filled with
Your out flowing love for others.

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"But as for you, continue in what you have
learned and have firmly believed, knowing
from whom you learned it and how from
childhood you have been acquainted with
the sacred writings which are able to
instruct you for salvation through faith in
Christ Jesus.

All scripture is inspired by God and profitable
for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and
for training in righteousness, that the man
of God may be complete, equipped for every
good work."

-- 2 Timothy 3:14-17 (RSV)