We Have Lost the Vision: What Happens When You Mix Rap Music, Dance and an Adventists Academy?

We have abandoned our divine commission to "train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6). Bringing our kids to Christ is the most important responsibility we have as a church and as parents. That was the purpose for which God ordained our educational systems. Our church schools' main goal is to give children a religious education that instills biblical principles, morals, and beliefs into their young lives.

Golden Boulevard Adventist Elementary School in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, is teaching our youth to do group dancing to rap music. This dance took place on August 30, 2023, during the national celebration called "Buwan ng Wika." This is a cultural event that takes place annually in the Philippines. In the video above, we see a school-sponsored, coordinated dance routine that involved the entire class.

Seventh-day Adventist church entities are being used to teach children how to develop complex dance routines. Adventist youth are being taught modern dance styles and choreography to prepare them for the world, not for heaven. Where have our priorities gone? What happened to the sanctity of our mission? What happened to the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Three Angels' Message? What is more important than the mission God has given us-worldly dancing?

When children gyrate to rap music in our academies, they do so to the detriment of themselves and our institutions. Our sense of loyalty and commitment to God is being replaced with worldly conformity. These new school administrators believe that following the inspired counsel of God's prophet is not the path to success. The way for our mission to succeed is by acting in a manner that is consistent with the rest of the world.

The work would have been completed a long time ago if we, as a people, had carried out our responsibility toward our children. However, the work is years behind, and if some had their way, our God-ordained mission would be replaced with dance shows to engage with the community as the new mode of evangelism.

"With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour might be carried to the whole world! How soon might the end come-the end of suffering and sorrow and sin! How soon, in place of a possession here, with its blight of sin and pain, our children might receive their inheritance where 'the righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever;' where 'the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick,' and 'the voice of weeping shall be no more heard.' Psalm 37:29; Isaiah 33:24; 65:19" (Education, p. 271).

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