without losing your faith
Every year Christian students head off to college worried about how they are going to make it in such a different world. "Am I going to pass?" "Will I make good friends?" "Will my degree be worth something when I get out of school?"
Many students don't realize that the worst danger they face is compromising their faith by adopting the practices and worldview of the majority of the students and faculty. Often the student does not know this is happening. Compromises in belief may take place by simply hearing something questionable in class and not really considering what it really will mean when worked out to its logical conclusion. Evolution is taught as a presupposition for all science. History instructors claim that there is simply a chain of cause and effect driving human history.
With respecting morality Christian students are subjected to the greatest barrage of sin they have ever witnessed. Sexual promiscuity is often taken for granted. Fellow students use phenonmenal amounts of alcohol and drugs. Many classes are full of people who are visibly intoxicated or asleep. Other classes have very low attendance as people spend their time doing anything other than study and attend class.
It is difficult to survive unscathed in this kind of world. The teachers are often not much better than the students. Even teachers who are kind and contientious have worldviews and beliefs which are radically different than the Bible.
Christian colleges are rarely much better than secular ones. There are a few "Bible colleges" which offer limited educational variety (though some are fine colleges within the realm of what they offer), but the normal "Christian" college or university is really a secular institution with a few Christian trappings.
As this page develops, I hope to answer questions from students about Christian belief and evangelism/apologetics on a college campus. Email me with questions which I can address on this page.
hits since 28 June 1998