What was my answer? Send their children to a church school which compromised with evolution and only taught a secular philosophy or to the local public school? My first answer was, "I would send them to neither I would keep them home!" Of course, this is becoming a real option for many parents today, and the home school movement is growing. However, I did go on to add that it was easier in one sense to tell the students they were being taught an anti-Christian philosophy in the public school. A church school that is supposedly Christian but has compromised with secular philosophy is no different from the public schools, except that it purports to be Christian.

The Lord makes this clear to us in Revelation 3:15–16. In reference to the compromising church, we read: "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art then lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth."

This is probably the reason why we often get a far better response to our ministry in public schools than in compromising Christian schools.

Pastors! Theologians! Ministers! You must be aware of what evolution is doing to students minds. You must be aware of what is happening in the school system. There are fewer children attending our church education programs. There are fewer children interested in religious education in schools. In many schools, religious education classes are not allowed any more. Look at it practically. Is your compromise position working? It is not!

Some of the opposition we encounter could be seen in the interview on Australian radio on May 16, 1984, with Rev. Colin Honey, a Uniting Church minister and master of Kingswood College at the University of Western Australia. Rev. Honey was asked if he saw a fundamental confusion between Christianity and simple-mindedness. He replied, "I guess there will be in peoples minds, if fools keep telling us that the Bible says the world was created in six days."