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This paper examined the necessity of Christian Religious Education in Nigerian secondary schools. Christian education is a foundational knowledge for Christian children and the spiritual and moral teachings in Christian education prepare children for good governance, sound society and political stability. From the history of Israel, Christian Education was a process in which religious knowledge; skills and set of values were passed down from one generation to another in the informal setting. This was how learning of religious norms and values were done in the family and between groups even before the introduction of formal education in schools in Israel. This was done to produce the foundation and the success of Christian community among the people of Israel depending on the size, number of people and factors among the Judeo-Christian era. Good governance and political stability do not emerge from the blues. It has to start from a solid foundation through the God-given agents of transformation here on earth. It happened in the times of Old and New Testament, so it is happening in our contemporary communities today. Christian education in Nigerian secondary schools provides the common-good focus on moral responsibility, peaceful co-existence and national development. This study further recommends that Christian education is the interactive construction of moral knowledge in the students' class room and social settings. The discourse finally positioned Christian Religious Education as God's ordained tool for the foundation for good governance and political stability as it also provides quality assurance. The paper opined that substandard work force is detrimental to national transformation, growth and development. Hence, there is the need to reform the curriculum and the teaching of Christian education with a view tomeeting the needs of young people living in an era of corruption, stealing, kidnapping religious crisis and globalization