Christian School Funding

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I think Christian schools should be supported. Legislation banning them hiring who they want is unjust. But I think Christians need to come to terms with the fact that as reasonable as it is for them receive government funding, because they make the government's process of providing education easier, Christians will need to get used to saying no to government money.

1) The conditions it will come with will become too onerous for the Christian conscience.*

2) The citizenry of Australia will feel more willing to demand more of Christian schools as long as they get government money.

Therefore, in all ways, including with charity status, Christian organisations need to start considering to voluntarily removing government funding from their efforts, including schools. Maybe not right away, but soon.

The one who provides the money feels the right to make demands. Government money is coming with more and more non-Christian strings attached. It may be technically the right of Christian ministries to take their share of services funding, but it may become a right we have to reject, because it costs more than it offers.

The sooner we learn to do things without it, the more resilient Christian ministries will become anyway.

This is just something I've been thinking about, and I don't have a hardened opinion on it yet. But this is an important thing to consider. It is already evident that Christian bodies are being forced to make decisions to keep funding which conflict with their Christian principles. This will only increase. *The sad reality of this though, is that before it gets too bad for the majority of Christians, those in charge will malign and target those speaking out sooner as Pharisees and troublemakers. Making it harder for Christians to take concerted efforts to create alternative systems to fund their schools and ministries. This is just a reality of how bureaucracies seek to protect themselves, so be aware of this.