So, why aren’t pastors being equipped at seminary & in continuing ed how to equip & encourage couples the importance of & how to catechize their children at home? For too long, the church has thoughtlessly followed the culture in separating children from their parents for Christian education. It’s time the Church wakes up & starts equipping & encouraging parents to catechize the biblical & historical way! We learned how because God graciously brought us back to the beauty of Luther’s Small Catechism. It is so useful for our smallest to have memorized like they have our native language memorized so they are able to discern & engage in effective spiritual warfare that is constantly attacking them! The CVD crisis brought the need for apologetics/polemic training into broad daylight. It’s evidenced in the homeschool movement more than doubling (from 5%-11%) in the last two years that parents are waking up! Will the Church be able to step up & guide them, or will we miss that boat like we missed the boat of rejecting the overpopulation agenda, the BCPill and contraceptives?! If we say we believe in promoting God’s created order, we need to repent, and get busy straightening out the mess we’ve allowed to happen in the LCMS! Just a mother wanting to be the mother Jesus wants me to be!