Tag: spiritual formation

Student Culture, Trends & Issues

Snubbing God

In a previous post I talked about why (most) students side with Rob Bell.

Near the end of that post I suggested that, if push came to shove, many students today would choose loyalty to their friends — over and above their loyalty to God.

The reason?

Because they cannot conceive of a God that would subject their non-believing friends to an eternity of pain, suffering and separation from God.

Many of today’s college students, much like Bell (and plenty of others), believe (or want to believe — or need to believe) that God will make a way for those people who do not confess Jesus as Lord during their time here on earth.

Student Culture, Trends & Issues

Why (Most) Students Side With Rob Bell

I don’t know how many college students have taken the time to pick up Bell’s Love Wins, let alone read it, over the course of a busy spring term… but this summer, if they do, I think we’ll find that many of them will more or less fall into agreement with much of what Bell has to say.

And it makes perfect sense, really.

We’ve become a  global community — and few know this better than our students.

Transitions

Commissioning Graduates: An Ordination to Daily Work

Before we send our students across the stage (to receive their diploma), and then on out into the world, we will worship together one last time at a baccalaureate service.

For the past several years this service has taken on the intentional theme of: An Ordination to Daily Work.

We want our students to recognize that — regardless of what field of work, sphere of society, or corner of the world they are heading to — God will be there, and wants to use them in some intentional ways in that place.