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Hurry Home

So.  You had made good decisions for your life and your eternity.

And then you went away to college.

You went away to college, and all of a sudden you are smarter than your parents, your siblings, and all the folks who had a part in your life.

You let people WHO DON\’T KNOW OR CARE ABOUT YOU ridicule and challenge your beliefs, and you caved. In the name of higher learning, you became \”too intelligent\” for such absurdity as God and Christ. The people you once admired, you now snicker at them or cluck your lips at them. \”How foolish they are,\” you sigh patronizingly.
 
Time will tell.
 
In the meantime, we continue to pray for your \”educated\” selves, we continue to love you, we continue to share the real truth–because that\’s where your freedom lies. Not in your higher learning, not in your \”maturity,\” but in the simple teachings that lead to eternal life. Yes, there is an eternal life; yes, there is a heaven and there is a hell. You once believed that. Somewhere, deep inside of you, you still believe that.

The Bible is still true today; God hasn\’t changed His mind. I\’m praying you change your mind so that you don\’t meet the Living God someday and experience shame and regret. Never forget, the folks who loved you as you grew into a young woman and a young man STILL LOVE YOU. Where are your professors today? Where are the young people who helped you throw aside all you were taught by the parents, the siblings, the church family who love you?

Ah, but that family–the family who loves you–is still here. We aren\’t going anywhere; we\’ll never back down. Because you are worth the effort.

 And we aren\’t going to stop praying for you. Hurry home.

Ranting from My Soapbox

*beginning of rant* I am a follower of Christ by His calling. I am a Baptist by theological choice. I firmly believe that the Bible is the living, active Word of God. I will do my best to defend as honestly as I know how what God\’s Word has to say. I don\’t have a seminary degree, but I do have 40 years of experience and growth in Him. I trust Him more than anything a professor at ANY college or seminary can say, because He has proven Himself trustworthy. Smart or not, if it doesn\’t support the WORD, they won\’t get me to agree with them. That is all. *end of rant*

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