Steve,
I totally agree. Christian children should be encouraged NOT to go to college. The culture of drinking etc etc is overwhelming for most teens.
I believe the Mormons have it right. Right after high school, get out of the country for 2 years. Spend 2 years in missions. Learn a new language and culture. Tell others about Christ. Learn about giving and forget about taking.
After 2 years, come back to the US with a new appreciation and maturity and a real accomplishment on your resume!

I completely disagree. Education is still very important to open doors that cannot be opened otherwise. Colleges are also the greatest mission field in our country today. But it does challenge your parenting skills. Kids do not stay in the same place spiritually when they go to college. They either grow much closer to the Lord, or fall away. Sadly, in the cases of the majority who fall away, the falling away demonstrates that the kids never had genuine faith, but were just drifting on Mom and Dad's faith. Two of our children have gone to secular colleges, one went to a Christian college. Those who went to secular schools actually grew more in their faith because they had to take a stand for Christ.

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Hi Steve I listen to your show every weekend all the way from Canada. I work at a place where nobody (except me) has gone to college. I am supervising some people who are 20+ years older than me and will be working at this job making a few dollars more than minimum until they retire. It is back breaking manual labour and I wouldn't wish a lifetime of it on anyone, really. The jobs here require atleast some college unless you work your way up and even that takes about 15 years. It's just ignorant to say you don't need college, it is a great learning experience and investment. You can be spiritually healthy and educated at the same time. People who leave their faith do so because it wasn't strong enough to begin with and they allow Satan to seduce them. It's nothing to blame on higher education and learning.

The major advantage of going to a college is if it is in a specific scientific or engineering field because they would have the equipment especially hardware used in those fields. For accountability and spiritual growth the person can always join a Christian Fraternity or Sorority or club with devout believers!!!

Personally, I have used the library system in S.Ca,the internet and bookstores for research,and knowledge.
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A college degree shows potential employers that a person is disciplined and can be trained. This is why college educated people often have and can get jobs that are not related to what they studied in college. A person without a degree still has to be trained to do something like be a mechanic, welder, truck driver, etc., or else they’re likely going to be working for minimum wages their entire life.

I graduated from a Christian college and I saw many Christian students lose their faith. The reason for this is NOT because their faith wasn’t that strong to begin with. That is a typical lame Christian apologetic argument that is easily disproved. In college a person often learns HOW to think. Once a person learns HOW to think for them self, they realize that the people who were telling them WHAT to think, their parents, don’t know what they are talking about. The student learns the difference between evidence and arguments and also learns not believe what they think (always question yourself) but only what they see. The uneducated masses from which we get people like Molotov Mitchell almost always believe what they think and not what the see. And what they think is what they’ve been TOLD to think, not ideas they’ve arrived at all by themselves.

One other important point about Christian colleges is that they all each science that disagrees with any kind of literal interpretation of the Bible such as evolutionary biology, Big Bang cosmology, old earth geology, etc. However I saw more students lose their faith in New Testament Greek classes than in biology or philosophy classes. When a person realizes the Bible doesn’t say what they’ve been told it says they often reject their Christian faith.