I believe home schooling is by far the best way to educate children, and that is the way that our own children were educated, but within some home schooling circles today there is widespread neglect toward and misunderstanding of the New Testament church. For example, on my last preaching trip to Australia I met some godly families in one of the churches. The children play various musical instruments; they have a wide variety of interests and talents; they have serious goals in life; they are getting a wonderful education; they are separated from the wicked things of the world. There is nothing wrong with any of this, of course. It is a great blessing to see close and godly families in this wicked age. The problem is with the emphasis and balance. These families do not place the church and the Great Commission in a Scriptural priority. They attend services only once on Sunday, forsaking the other services for “family time,” in direct contradiction to Acts 2:42 and Hebrews 10:25. They brazenly neglected the special services that the church was hosting and thus gained no benefit from the visiting preacher/missionary. Their lives could have been changed and challenged by that preaching, but other things were more important to them.