issue #1 - relevance
Posted Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
I’m doing some preparation & research for my seminar next week at the UYWI on the faith challenges for students entering college. This quote about the spiritual perspective of the average college student stood out to me:
…most college students… view religion not unlike vegetables—as something that is “good for you” and part of adult life, but not as something all that relevant to their current stage as college students.
As one freshman put it, “I feel like God dropped me off at college and said, ‘I’ll be back to pick you up in four years’.”
Note that this student, like many of his peers, planned to be picked up when he graduated—in the same place and by the same driver.
What do you think?
May 10th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Problem is less that kids have this view and more that church leaders have this view. Many churches (and i tend to see that among the arm enian churches is not knowing what to do with the youth who graduate high school and drop off in college. One pastor told me, “they’ll eventually come back”…
Actually, most will not come back (google barna with his research). Kids see God as a vegetable cause their churches and parents have treated God as a vegetable–good to eat but not necessarily that tasty.