Classroom Bible Mandate in Oklahoma & Its Opponents

PRAY WITH US about classroom Bible mandate: Father God, we worship You, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. And we honor the fathers and mothers, including the framers of our Constitution, You have given us. We know You promise long life to those who do honor them. And their generations have had a long history of honoring Your Word. Yet many have succeeded in dishonoring them and taking their heritage and Your Word out of our classrooms.

So remind them that You Yourself, the Creator, endowed us all with rights that governments cannot take away. Show them the foundations of our rights and laws in Your Word. For You say, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”–which fulfills the whole Law (Gal. 5:14). Who else has ever made better laws for us to live by than You? For that reason alone, You Word deserves a place in all our classrooms. So show students, teachers and objectors alike that You deserve that, and much more—to be our Lord. In Jesus’ name, amen.

PRAYER ALERT: Classroom Bible Mandate in Oklahoma & Its Opponents

The Oklahoma Department of Education now seeks to include Bibles in every public classroom. That won’t seem strange to nations like Belize, where the great majority of schools are church schools. OK State Superintendent of Instruction Ryan Walters called the Bible “a necessary historical document.” Students need it to understand Western civilization, the Constitution and “the basis of our legal system.”

And who can really dispute those assertions? Christianity grew steadily in the West ever since Constantine’s 313 AD edict of toleration. Despite severe challenges from within and without, it remains the leading faith in the West. According to David Barton, 52 of 55 framers of the Constitution were Bible-believing Christians. The University of Houston found that of 15,000 quotes by the framers, 34% came from the Bible. (See David Barton’s American Heritage Series).

But did the Bible influence “the basis of our legal system” beyond the Constitution? Yes. The very first Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Jay, served as president of the American Bible Society. And in 1892 the Supreme Court called the US a Christian nation, citing 87 precedents…

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