Graduation

Lately, I have been thinking about all of these new high school seniors being released into a collegiate world that many of them are not prepared for. I don’t believe that it’s the goal of parents and youth ministers to send the students’ ill prepared. Actually, I believe they are doing their level best to get these students ready. I think the challenge is that the collegiate environment has a lot more experience attacking our faith then the parents and youth ministries could imagine.

That is why I wrote College Impact. It’s time that we as believers started seeing the college campuses as mission fields ripe for the harvest and our children as the workers to do the job. The Bible says, “ Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man 
whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate.” Psalm 127:4-5

I love the analogy of children being arrows because it gives us God’s purpose for sending them into the world. Our children are to be hurled at the enemy. Bows and arrows are offensive long-range weapons. The imagery we get from this scripture is, as we send our children out into the world they go and do damage to our adversary. This is not a passive thing, to launch children into the world; it’s an aggressive one.

Parents, youth ministries, and students have to have a wholesale change in how they approach this transition. We can no longer risk sending our sheep to the slaughter without teaching them to be as wise as serpents. We need to help students understand that they are the righteousness of Christ and they are to be Kingdom agents on their campuses. Instead of sitting idly by as their faith is assaulted they should in turn touch lives, stand for truth, and raise a banner for Christ at their colleges.

How do we make that change? To get that answer pick up a copy of College Impact: Empowering Collegiate Christians for Campus Influence. THIS IS A GREAT GRADUATION PRESENT! You can request the book at your local bookstore or online at http://www.paramindpublications.com/collegeimpact.html or http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976273829/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=