On one hand, I am amazed at how smart some of these kids are. They often win political debates against other smart kids from Oxford, Harvard, etc. It's good that there are some Christians out there who actually know how to think, who are logical and can debate intelligently.
On the other hand, I continue to struggle with the idea of mixing religion and politics together. This struggle will end up being a very long post some other time, but for now, let me succinctly state that I believe that Christians should be about furthering the kingdom of God, not furthering the kingdom of man. Politics fall under furthering the kingdom of man. When I look in the New Testament and I see the early church - who were living in much more religiously oppressive times than we are - I look at what they did everyday, and nowhere do I find any examples of Christians boycotting a company for believing something different, picketing gay marches, and rubbing shoulders with the powerful political elite. Yet, I see these very things happening with today's church.
Anyway, here's the article.
2 comments:
Wow that was an eye opener I had no idea there was a college like that The last church I went to had a large homeschool population It was in Fairborn near the base and there was a large amt of military families who homeschooled for good reasons I did notice that although they were very intelligent and well versed alot of them were "backwards" socially in relating to others in the "real " world ..a very narrow view of what the world is about and I'm not so sure how much they really do reach outside their comfort zone
Yeah, I was surprised that the last statement of that article was "I want to be a light in the world."
I'm not sure that college would prepare people to really be lights in the world, I think you have to know what the world is all about in the first place and not spend your life separated from it (i.e. homeschool and a college of just Christians).
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