A Christian man, a husband and a father who lives in Sweden, writes in with today's question.

Hello, Pastor John.

I love this podcast and your teachings.

I live in Sweden, a coerce of a country, socialist in a lot of ways, homeschooling exemptions

for religious convictions, or outlawed here not long ago.

We must send our children to school or the government threatens to take them away from

us.

The state forces children to begin preschool when they're just six years old.

Christian schools are practically illegal and a school may have a Christian profile, but

it's a meaningless title.

These few Christian schools are still not allowed to be religious or teach a Christian world

view.

They're still forced by law to abide to the same teaching plan as secular atheistic schools

to give children a secular education and must even teach our children LGBTQ as a positive

norm.

In such a country, Pastor John, how should we parent?

Let me try to build up a case or an understanding from the more basic and broad principle to

the immediate application to a parent in Sweden faced with this kind of difficult challenge.

I would start at the bottom by affirming that God has assigned to parents, parents, not

the state parents, the rearing and shaping of the minds and hearts of the children in the

knowledge of God and in how to live that out in the world.

I would base that on text like Ephesians 6.4, fathers bring up your children in the discipline

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