Choosing a Christian College and its reputation

TruthandGrace
Mon, 18 May 2015 14:22:16 +0000

I have one word of advice for you…choose your college wisely! To let you know, I am a believer of Christ and have a relationship with him. That being said, there are plenty of Christian colleges out there that live by the rule of legalism and say it is biblical. Case and point, my wife use to attend Maranantha Bible College in Wisconsin and her time there sounded like she was locked inside of a prison cell while receiving an education. She was not allowed to listen to CCM (Baptists really frown on CCM), was not allowed to wear shorts or jeans to class and had to wear khakis to class. But that’s not all, she was not allowed to go on the men’s side of campus and had to stay on her side after class (yes, that rule exists). If you violated these rules (and I’m sure there is more), you were suspended or expelled and called a heathen. Very legalistic and completely non-biblical.

On the other side, I attended Liberty University Online and didn’t have to adhere to silly and stupid legalistic, non-biblical rules! Moral of the story…choose your college wisely and don’t do it solely because of the program you’re trying to take. Do it because that is where you are going to live, eat, learn and breathe for the next 4 years (possibly more if you choose to do graduate school).