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ORIGINAL: cynthia

How does this pertain to homeschooling?

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The New Apostolic Reformation is a movement in Protestant Christianity that grew out of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, that asserts that God is restoring the lost offices of church governance, namely the offices of Prophet and Apostle. The New Apostolic Reformation started from Pentecostal and Charismatic origins, and thus includes belief in the ongoing ministry of the Holy Spirit within a believer; the performance of miracles (such as healing), prophecy and the revelation of Christ within a believer. However, although the movement sees the Church as the true body of saved believers as many Evangelical Protestants do, it maintains the need for Church offices and submission to Church leaders, who are seen as ordained by God, and given power and authority by God to lead by serving, as described in the biblical letter of the apostle Paul to the Ephesians. As such, they believe in the 5-fold offices of the Church first popularized in Charismatic groups; of which the prophet and apostle has been absent from the Church for the last 2000 years, and are now being restored. See Five-Fold Ministry. Many apostolic churches are at their heart missionary churches. This reformation seeks to reform the church on a global scale beginning first with the local church which is then networked to other apostolic churches relating to one another as one body and submitted to Christ who is believed to be the head of the church. The apostolic ministry is not concerned with membership numbers but rather with a process they refer to as the formation of Christ within its members. As such, apostolic churches tend to be small, consisting of dedicated believers who all function and carry weight in the church, working together toward the commission and vision of the local church.

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I've got a better question. What in the world is New Reformation?

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Christian revival is a term that generally refers to a specific period of increased spiritual interest or renewal in the life of a church congregation or many churches, either regionally or globally. This should be distinguished from the use of the term "revival" to refer to a highly emotional evangelistic meeting or series of meetings either in a church building or a large tent or even in the open air; see Revival meeting. While elements such as mass conversions of non-believers and perceived beneficial effects on the moral climate of a given culture may be involved, revivals are seen by many Christians as being the restoration of the church itself to a vital and fervent relationship with God after a period of decline. The word "church" here referring to the body of believers in Christ as a whole and not to any particular group or denomination among them.

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This reformation seeks to reform the church on a global scale beginning first with the local church which is then networked to other apostolic churches relating to one another as one body and submitted to Christ who is believed to be the head of the church.

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Separation of church and state is a political and legal doctrine that government and religious institutions are to be kept separate and independent from each other. The term most often refers to the combination of two principles: secularity of government and freedom of religious exercise. The modern concept often credited to the writings of English philosopher John Locke, the phrase separation of church and state is generally traced to the letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists, in which he referred to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as creating a "wall of separation" between church and state. The phrase was then quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878, and then in a series of cases starting in 1948. This led to increased popular and political discussion of the concept.

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ORIGINAL: RJR_fan

FWIW, I believe that the contemporary home schooling movement in America is a reformation. God's Word applied to an area of life that had been permitted to go adrift for way too long.

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Tom, I fail to see a connection between homeschooling and a revival. Trying to make a connection between the two is bit of a stretch.

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Homeschooling or homeschool (also called home education or home learning) is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in a formal setting of public or private school. Although prior to the introduction of compulsory school attendance laws, most childhood education occurred within the family or community, homeschooling in the modern sense is an alternative in developed countries to formal education. Homeschooling is a legal option in many places for parents to provide their children with a learning environment as an alternative to publicly-provided schools. Parents cite numerous reasons as motivations to home school, including better academic test results, poor public school environment, improved character/morality development, and objections to what is taught locally in public school. It is also an alternative for families living in isolated rural locations or living temporarily abroad. Homeschooling may also refer to instruction in the home under the supervision of correspondence schools or umbrella schools. In some places, an approved curriculum is legally required if children are to be home-schooled. A curriculum-free philosophy of homeschooling may be called unschooling, a term coined in 1977 by American educator John Holt in his magazine Growing Without Schooling.

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Deuteronomy 6:4-9
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. [a] 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

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What does homeschooling have to do with a revival?

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If you want to learn about the textbook, then go to school. If you want to learn about the bible, then go to church. This is the meaning of separation of church and state.

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Separation of church and state is a political and legal doctrine that government and religious institutions are to be kept separate and independent from each other. The term most often refers to the combination of two principles: secularity of government and freedom of religious exercise. The modern concept often credited to the writings of English philosopher John Locke, the phrase separation of church and state is generally traced to the letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists, in which he referred to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as creating a "wall of separation" between church and state. The phrase was then quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878, and then in a series of cases starting in 1948. This led to increased popular and political discussion of the concept.

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ORIGINAL: Johnny_

Just an FYI. I'm not against homeschooling. I respect everyone's choices and everyone's educational background. However, I don't think homeschooling is a revival.

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ORIGINAL: cynthia

This is the homeschool folder, so any separation between church and government does not apply here.

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ORIGINAL: cynthia

Right. RJR_fan specifically stated reformation, not revival.

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Homeschool can be a reformation. If Christian homeschoolers influence others and encourage change within the Church as a whole, a reformation can grow one family at a time until it permeates the Church and makes fundamental changes.

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ORIGINAL: RJR_fan
Home schooling, OTOH, is a broad-based grass-roots generation-spanning event that evidences God's sovereign and wonderful work in touching families one by one. It's a God thing, not a centralized "crusade" driven by human charisma.

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ORIGINAL: RJR_fan

Home schooling, OTOH, is a broad-based grass-roots generation-spanning event that evidences God's sovereign and wonderful work in touching families ...

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Yet look what a major part of the Bible is concerned with genealogies! It pounds us with continuity of generations to the point of boredom, such that we often skip those portions of the Bible.