Anyone else have the experience I had growing up in an IFBX church years ago and I mean years ago where the church pushed their youth to attend christian colleges instead of state schools. Those youth who did not attend a christian college was looked at and even treated differently then those who attended christian college(s).
Now maybe that practice has changed in the IFB/IFBX world today but had anyone experienced that years ago? And if so has it changed in your churches today?
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Lynchburg Baptist College class of 1975, now known as Liberty University.
Yes, this is another IFBx fallicy. They somehow believe that all Christian youths must go to a Christian college to get an education. This is especially true if they have a Christian School with the church. There are several major problems with this. One, as is the case with most IFBx standards, it is nowhere in the Bible and cannot be proven with Scripture that says all children must go to Christian colleges. Second, a degree from a Christian college is somewhere below Phoenix University and slightly above IDT Tech. Unless you are going into the ministry, it is not worth the paper it is written on for the most part. Third, most IFBx churches shun young people who do not go to Christian college, they become a second class citizen in their church and get to hang out with divorcees and people who go to movies. Only retards tell children to go to Christian colleges, which make up most of the IFBx pastors out there.
There were kids in my youth group who went to both state schools and Christian colleges. No pressure was exerted towards the Christian colleges. We were just encouraged to seek God's will and follow it. Now, as a youth pastor, I do the same thing.
Yes, this is another IFBx fallicy. They somehow believe that all Christian youths must go to a Christian college to get an education. This is especially true if they have a Christian School with the church. There are several major problems with this. One, as is the case with most IFBx standards, it is nowhere in the Bible and cannot be proven with Scripture that says all children must go to Christian colleges. Second, a degree from a Christian college is somewhere below Phoenix University and slightly above IDT Tech. Unless you are going into the ministry, it is not worth the paper it is written on for the most part. Third, most IFBx churches shun young people who do not go to Christian college, they become a second class citizen in their church and get to hang out with divorcees and people who go to movies. Only retards tell children to go to Christian colleges, which make up most of the IFBx pastors out there.
I take it you are referring to christian colleges that are unaccredited? There are some that have accreditation.
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“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart,
if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
Sir Winston Churchill
" If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. " Albert Einstein
"I say that boy is as strong as an ox, and just about as smart." - Foghorn Leghorn
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera - The King and I
Lynchburg Baptist College class of 1975, now known as Liberty University.
Our church has some young people in Christian college and some in secular.
Our pastor feels that if God has called you to a secular field, better to stay at home and go to a secular college and be in your home church than to be at a college where your degree won't matter.
If God has called a young person to ministry, there are many colleges he recommends.
I take it you are referring to christian colleges that are unaccredited? There are some that have accreditation.
Yeah, I'm talking about unaccredited. Although I have heard that some accreditation that Christian colleges try to get is a joke as well, but I don't know enough to speak about that.
Anyone else have the experience I had growing up in an IFBX church years ago and I mean years ago where the church pushed their youth to attend christian colleges instead of state schools. Those youth who did not attend a christian college was looked at and even treated differently then those who attended christian college(s).
Now maybe that practice has changed in the IFB/IFBX world today but had anyone experienced that years ago? And if so has it changed in your churches today?
Yes, my very dear high school friend (we are still close to this day) had the choice of Pensacola or BJU. She wanted neither but went with Pensacola and was miserable. In the Church my parents started attending my junior year of high school the pastor pushed HAC or Fairhaven. When one girl chose TTU he became irrate telling her she was not following God's will. he insisted she sing "Ill go where you want me to go dear Lord" as church specials for many weeks in a row until she finally refused to sing it again. When she didn't change her mind and he saw that her parents weren't going to force her he began a new tactic...lying. He told them TTU had drugs all over campus and co-ed dorms. It was very pathetic.
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There were kids in my youth group who went to both state schools and Christian colleges. No pressure was exerted towards the Christian colleges. We were just encouraged to seek God's will and follow it. Now, as a youth pastor, I do the same thing.
What he said.
It's the same in our IFB church where we attend today.
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Our young people are strongly, Strongly, STRONGLY encouraged to do the "13th" year at a Bible College before moving on into a secular education route. Are the kids that "go secular" treated different? Some say yes, others say no.
One time when we had some visitors from an extremist church at one of our services, this person from the visiting church, who I had never seen before in my life, overheard me talking about attending BJU. This super-fat woman with really long hair, wearing a tent for a skirt (in other words, looking like every other woman from her church), got a real sour look on her face and asked me why I was attending there instead of Hyles-Anderson. "All our kids attend college there" she said, as if because their church was bigger that should impress me, I guess.
Being a teenager and raised to be polite, I wasn't really sure what to say, so I muttered something about not wanting to be a preacher. She just rolled her eyes and waddled away to the church bus. I told my dad about it on the way home, and he said that when her church started paying for my education, they could decide where I'd go to college.
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