{"id":2271,"date":"2011-09-02T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fbclafayette.org\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2014-07-21T10:16:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T14:16:42","slug":"making-college-count-part-2-justification-for-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/making-college-count-part-2-justification-for-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Making College Count \u2014 Part 2: Justification for Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you won the lottery today, would you still go to college?<\/p>\n

What does your answer reveal about WHY you are going to college?\u00a0 Does this poster<\/a> represent your justification for higher education?<\/p>\n

Pat Answers<\/h2>\n

Each new college year, I ask a question to eager freshmen, \u201cWhy are you here at college?\u201d With facial expressions that communicate, \u201cduh!\u201d, the typical answers students give are:\u00a0 \u201cTo get a career to make money;\u201d \u201cTo find out what I want to do in life;\u201d \u201cTo get a career to make money;\u201d \u201cTo find a date;\u201d \u201cTo get a career to make money;\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s just the next step in life, I suppose;\u201d \u201cTo get a career to make money.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s Not About a Career (Or a Date)<\/h2>\n

I ask again, \u201cWhy are you here<\/em><\/strong>?\u201d Why are you placed here on this earth?\u00a0 Your purpose here<\/em> on this earth is the exact same purpose you have at college.\u00a0 Your purpose at college is to be the visible representation of the invisible God who created you (Gen 1:26, 1 Peter 2:9). \u00a0God established your purpose from the beginning of creation. \u00a0We ultimately know that Christ fulfilled that purpose precisely (Col 1:15; Heb 1:3), but we <\/em>are called to follow that image and purpose as well (Rom 8:28-29). Your purpose at college is to represent your Creator and Redeemer God to campus and the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Live Your Purpose Out Through College<\/h2>\n

As the next \u201cstage\u201d of life after high school, college affords a brand new setting to live out your purpose and a brand new means to focus your purpose. God gives His people manifold skills and abilities to refine, develop, and employ to represent Him well.\u00a0 God desires for His people to explore and sharpen their academic, social, management, art, and music skills.\u00a0 These skills are to be enhanced so that you may represent your God well.<\/p>\n

As you sharpen your skills, you become fruitful in reigning over the works of God\u2019s hand.\u00a0 You become a producer who is able to give to meet needs and bring God\u2019s redemption and order to a chaotic, sin cursed world.<\/p>\n

So college student, today<\/em><\/strong> how are you honoring God in the way you are developing your God-given skills?\u00a0 Also, today <\/strong><\/em>how are other students on campus being drawn to their Creator through you, His representative?\u00a0 Do they see a God of holiness, excellence, compassion, mercy, grace, and love when they look at you (1 Pet 2:12)? This<\/strong><\/em> is your justification for higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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