College Campuses Are a Mission Field
Brian's been posting a great series on Parenting Teens, but his post today intersected with another blog I read. Brian writes:
The reality of church dropouts has been an important topic in churches for years. Everyone knows experientially that college-age students often drop out of church, but many don’t know exactly why.
Frank Turek, of CrossExamined.org, thinks college itself is partly to blame. He writes:
When
it comes time for college, parents often think they’re sending their
children off to a religiously-neutral site to learn objective facts
about the real world. Unfortunately, they’re far more
likely to drop their child into one of the most liberal, anti-Christian
environments anywhere on American soil. That’s where
some college professors act as intellectual predators, purposefully
seeking to undermine the faith of young Christian students.
He goes on to quote two Professors, atheists, who unashamedly claim “we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable.” He said that we professors “arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.”
Turek responds:
These two professors are not atypical. A recent survey shows that professors are five times more likely to be atheists than the general public. It also found that 53% of college professors view Evangelical students unfavorably. In fact, Evangelicals are, by far, the most disliked religious group on campus (Muslims were not liked by 22% which means that in the United States of America, professors are two and half times more likely to dislike an Evangelical student than a Muslim student).No wonder 75% of Christian kids leave the church in College. It’s anything but a religiously-neutral environment. Equip yourself or your child before attending.
How are you preparing your kids for a world that is hostile to Christianity? How is you church equipping their teens?
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