Allow Your Grown Students to Engage the Culture and Change the World

Some people wonder if Christians should go to college.  After all, college is filled with faulty humans.  For many people and for many reasons, college is the next step after high school.

“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.”
1 Corinthians 13: 11

We spend much of our homeschool years explaining to people the reasons we keep our children safe at home.  Those reasons don’t change when our children grow up – it’s our children that change.  In fact, they become adults.  Adults must interact with a fallen world on a regular basis.  Firm in their faith, adult Christians need to negotiate the contrasting world views with their own beliefs intact.  At some point, and you will know when it happens to you, your child will be ready to “become a man” (or woman) and move on into life – and that “life” may include college.  So train up your child in the way they should go, and when they become adult, allow them to engage the culture and change the world.

Jesus said, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.”  Mark 16:15

It’s a command.  Jesus said it.  That verse just screams for our attention.  He doesn’t say, “Go into all the world, but not college.” So if college is in your child’s future, prepare them to face it as a mature adult.

But of course, you don’t have to throw your children into the lion’s den either.  Responsible Christians don’t generally choose to hang out in bars or clubs for fun.  So with your students, choose your college carefully, weighing the options – just don’t be afraid of college in general.

If college is the next natural step after high school, then prepare your students to step boldly into adulthood.  Allow them to engage the culture so that they may change the world.

Pondering why Jesus said “follow me,” instead of “follow me on Twitter.”

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