Gospel Vision through Home Discipleship

Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? Show us your steadfast love, O LORD, and grant us your salvation. (Ps. 85:6-7)

Our prayer is Revival, not just in America but Worldwide

This goal may seem lofty to some, but consider this—The Great Awakening was termed as such when only 2.5% of the reported colonist population in British North America surrendered to Christ. The accounts in newspapers and testimonies of the era described waves of overwhelming movements of the Holy Spirit.  

God told Abraham that if only 10 in Sodom and Gomorrah feared the Lord that he would spare those cities, which represents only .005% (200,000 lived in that valley) of the population in those cities. The point is that by a small percentage the Spirit will transform a land. It does not take majorities or large migrations for the Holy Spirit to overpower a culture. 

 Too often, when we think of revival, we think of massive majorities rushing to salvation all at once, but the truth is that the Lord can work through only a few. 

Today, by some accounts, there are 8 million homeschool children in the United States which represents around 12% of the k-12 student population. Many homeschoolers (approximately 2/3) are self-professing followers of Christ. There are 335 million people (total) in the United States.  

Over the next twenty years, what kind of impact could a small percentage of families devoted to discipleship and the Gospel — homeschoolers and non-homeschoolers—have on the United States? What about the world? 

Our goal at Teach Them Diligently is first to encourage families toward discipleship in the home and to present the Gospel to those around them. To disciple anyone, it takes presence. You must be with the one you disciple. This is the first prerequisite to discipleship—time. Obviously, because time is such an enormous factor in discipleship, we focus on homeschooling to maximize the time parents are with their children.  

The second major factor in discipleship is that the one that is doing the discipling is growing and maturing in the Lord. We believe that discipleship is really reproduction, not teaching. In other words, discipleship is really overflowing from one to others.  

Lastly, we hold firmly to the idea that God intended for sons and daughters to be discipled first by parents. Sure, there are other people in a child’s life that will have an impact on them. However, we believe that God intended parents to bring their children to Christ.  

And, for years according to statistics, high percentages of young people are walking away from a faith in Jesus when they leave the home. We believe this is a tragedy, and we also believe that the pathway to stopping this flow is by equipping parents.  

Yes, we are focused on homeschooling, but we do not necessarily think homeschooling is the ultimate answer to reversing this trend. It is certainly possible to homeschool and still have everything wrong. Also, we do believe it is very possible to not homeschool and bring your children to Christ. Homeschooling is not the hope!  

Christ is our only hope!  

We believe that reversing this trend is for parents to take seriously their role as being the one to disciple their children. It is time!  

God’s Word will not return empty but will multiply across this land. But, it starts in the home. 

Parent—your home is your Jerusalem.