How Not to Lose Your Faith in College

Thabiti Anyabwile on How Not to Lose Your Faith in College:

What I've found in these counseling situations is that typically the prospective college student has no definite plan for surviving college as a Christian. They've very often been raised in the thick, semi-transparent plastic Christian bubble, and the challenges of toxin-laced, free oxygen-based life is new, alluring, and usually more than the perky teenager is bargaining for.

Thabiti offers some excellent counsel, organized under the following exhortations: (1) find and join a good church; (2) choose your friends with biblical criteria in view; (3) at all costs, remain sexually pure; (4) study; (5) call home; (6) remember the counsel of God.