I've been listening to sermons by David Silversides (via Sermon Audio). He says something which needs further consideration.
He speaks as the Pastor of a presbyterian church where all the children learn the catechism, sing psalms and live respectable lives (many may even go to a church-school) and he recognises that there is a REAL danger. It is this, if you grow up in it you can be lulled into thinking that the faith is all about KNOWING stuff and DOING (or not-doing) stuff. Of course the scripture is clear. John Wesley, it seems, was in the same boat as many presbyterians (and home-schooled baptists) - he had a dramatic conversion experience to authenticate his walk with the Lord. Do we HAVE to have this or couldn't we just learn to recognise, as we grow older (as the O.T. Israelites were supposed to) that all the outward stuff we do and all the wonderful truth that we KNOW are pointing to the need for a hearty relationship with our wonderful Creator in a day-by-day and moment-by-moment manner.
Failure to recognise this means that home-schooling and Christian ed. in a tightly theologically sound environment runs the very real hazard of producing first-rate, self-righteous, Pharisees - it worked that way in the past.....
We'd better get on our knees.