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Well, what a lovely accusation, as well as a default condemnation of thousands of parents. Good call.
To OP: This is nothing new. This same thing was going on 30 years ago. This is often the time when children separate from their parents and try to find their identity and establish their beliefs as their own. They may also be exposed to, or pressured to, engage in sinful activities. Without an established church family and friends in the new area (as many times this happens to young adults going away for school) they lack guidance and accountability as well as having a new set of temptations, they tend give in eventually.
They are also hearing all sorts of new arguments against their faith from both professors as well as other students and may know how to handle a plethora of new assaults on their faith. These are, often times, the most common reasons.
To OP: This is nothing new. This same thing was going on 30 years ago. This is often the time when children separate from their parents and try to find their identity and establish their beliefs as their own. They may also be exposed to, or pressured to, engage in sinful activities. Without an established church family and friends in the new area (as many times this happens to young adults going away for school) they lack guidance and accountability as well as having a new set of temptations, they tend give in eventually.
They are also hearing all sorts of new arguments against their faith from both professors as well as other students and may know how to handle a plethora of new assaults on their faith. These are, often times, the most common reasons.
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That is what my friend and I were thinking as well. We also were focused on how a lot of churches do not cater to college students. For example, they have youth ministry, pre teen ministry, and high school ministry but once you are in college there are not a lot of resources out there for you (your essentially clumped into the adult ministry). Also, many churches focus on behavioral sermons for young children rather than the Gospel. I am not sure but maybe that could be a leading factor?
Modern Christianity has largely abandoned its intellectual tradition. Students who attend college find their paper-thin apologetic constructs shattered by ideological professors who wish to inculcate their own views (usually cultural Marxism).
This is what happens when your contemporary Christian figureheads are Joel Osteen and John Hagee rather than Jonathan Edwards and John Calvin.
This is what happens when your contemporary Christian figureheads are Joel Osteen and John Hagee rather than Jonathan Edwards and John Calvin.
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Hmm.. that has not been my experience. Most of the churches i've been to have a young adults/college age ministry. But i think that what church is has been negatively redefined as the place Christians bring their non-Christian friends. And churches encourage this. This allows the job of being a witness to fall to the pastor. So the messages are often shallow or aimed at non-believers. So we end up with a church full of non-Christians, or baby Christians who never grow, only hearing the salvation message every week.
But, as i said, even when churches had better messages this whole issue of college age kids leaving the church was still common. So i don't think the issue of the way churches are is so much of the issue, but only, perhaps, fueling an existing issue. But what we never hear are how many of those that leave the church at that age return to it later on. Hearing that many leave the church at that age is only one part of a longer story.
But, as i said, even when churches had better messages this whole issue of college age kids leaving the church was still common. So i don't think the issue of the way churches are is so much of the issue, but only, perhaps, fueling an existing issue. But what we never hear are how many of those that leave the church at that age return to it later on. Hearing that many leave the church at that age is only one part of a longer story.
In past polls the biggest two reasons for not going have been that people disagreed with what was being taught or they don't have the time / it's not that important. Christ being the only way to salvation isn't very popular these days, since people like to think that "if you're a good person" that's enough. And typical churches really serve no function that's visible or practical to most people.
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I attest to this. There are very few young adults ministries. And for those that do exist, a lot of them have folks married. Kinda makes it awkward for those singles folks. There is a church in my area, though, that does have a young adults singles ministry. Meaning you have to be 18-29 and can't be married. It hasn't been the same, though, as it was when I first joined last summer. So I'm kinda lost again in fellowship with other believers around my age.
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Honestly I think that we can only phantom the sheeps clothing wolves are dressed in. Who is to say that since the followers of Satan pose as angels of light they aren't posing as college students proclaiming to fall away from the truth? I will say one thing those demons knew that people like money when they asked Jesus to be able to be placed in the herd of swine. What I'm saying is there might be a lot more things involved regarding collage students falling away from the truth because of atheist teachers. It could all be part of the threshing floor.
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Take for instance people falsely saying that monster drinks logos are a symbol for Satan or how on Starbucks logo she is a goddess. Starbucks said a long time ago what the logo was and it wasn't a goddess. I'm saying that yeah maybe there are college students who are falling away, but we also must understand that many things that are distorted as bad not all of them are. For all we know there might be currently a great revival among the youth today that is currently trying to be covered up from our understanding as well. I'm just saying we should always keep this stuff in mind.