Why do Christian college students leave church and struggle

[Dorothy Mae]

Studies have been done on this. About 70% leave the faith/church as adults. The reasons are 1) the youth group was mostly pizza and games do when they grew out of those interests, the faith (they probably never had) was gone.

Another reason 2) is they couldn’t ask questions. From observation I would say the church provides no substance for the faith. Christians cannot answer the questions even if they were allowed to ask. Most of the families I know in church have one or more atheistic grown children, including a pastor. From observation, I would say the parents don’t really believe. The church is more of a club.

 

[Christ_empowered]

To be fair…

Cultivating a Christian worldview takes time and patience and guidance. Speaking of what I see in Bible Belt USA it’s..not common to see a good approach to developing such a worldview in the congregants. Some churches go for heavy duty emo stuff..others are bigger on tradition and community engagement…

And lots in between have cell groups etc that are probably helpful. When it comes to developing a Christian worldview it seems many people are on their own. Not good…

 

[Zeth4500]

christianity and college are polar opposites
one values family, tradition, religion and god
the other values materialism, selfishness, desire (not need) and independance- satanism interestingly relies on materialism. hmmmm

plus theres many young men/women at colleges, a lot of drugs and alcohol parties, obviously this is very tempting and dangerous, and as the bible proclaims we must stay away from temptation- run in opposite direction
i have moments where god tests me with materialism where i can see i could do something somewhat wrong and earn a lot of money- but i abstain from it. and thats how we always gotta consider the holiness in what we do, what we desire. and especially consider needs vs WANTS

 

[Carry_Your_Name]

You can't blame these lads and lasses' defection if they grew up in a Laodicean megachurch that makes fans, not disciples of Jesus. Such churches are run like a company, not a house of worship or a sanctuary of peace; the clergy's major concerns are growth and popularity, not saving souls and winning minds. Every sunday service you've got a rock concert, a self-help TED talk and maybe some extracurricular activities, it's full of joy and relief and thrill; then you live the rest of the week as before, perhaps even more sinful and reckless, as the blessed assurance of salvation is taken as a ticket to heaven and a license to sin, Rom. 6:1-4 is completely thrown out of the window. This is the fulfillment of Paul's warning in 2 Tim. 3:5, that such apostate churches have a form of godliness but deny its power. I'm sorry if that sounds a little too harsh on our dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I have no ill intention or condemnation, but this is the impression I got - Therapeutic Moralistic Deism. The Lord doesn't spit out this kind of church for no reason, that was a specific reference of the ancient Israelites being spit out of the Holy Land for their disobedience and indifference.