Why college students?

Why college students? What makes a college minister so much different than ministers of other kinds? Well that is a very good question. I believe that college age students are poised more than any others to impact the world. Am I saying that college students are the only ones that can change the world? Heck no. That is not what I mean at all. The answer is simple. Well maybe not that simple. Before we examine why college age people are better poised than others, let’s look at those other groups. I am going to simply divide them into two categories. There are the youth, which are younger than college students, and seasoned adults, which are older than college students. When I say college age, I am referring to ages 18-25ish. Let’s start with youth. Go talk to some youth in your church. Ask them why they are there. Ask them to give you an honest answer. The majority of youth (and I am basing this assumption on personal experience) go to church because their parents make them. Very few middle school kids would consciously choose to wake up early on a Sunday (one of their two days off) morning and go to church to hear a guy in a suit talk about a book (the Bible) they really can’t understand anyway. Youth have the potential to change the world, but not really the resources or the drive to do so. Now let’s look at the older adults. Why can’t older adults change the world? They can. Of course they can. However, the older a person gets the more the potential for world changing events lessens. Older adults have had their chance to change the world. They have made their life choices and cannot really go back in change them. Most adults are going to already have their major theologies and philosophies nailed down. The older a person gets, the less adaptive, the less open to change they become. It is hard for a person who has lived a long life to break down the walls of their own mind and let Jesus do the work he wants done. It is hard for an older person to really change their minds and be open to change. They are so engrained in their beliefs that the opportunities they are going to be presented with will most likely be missed. So what makes college age people so poised to alter the very fabric of the world?? They CHOOSE to be where they are. No one forces them to go to church or bible studies or prayer meetings. A friend may strongly suggest they come, but ultimately they make the conscious decision that they need to be at those meetings. These people have a set of basic beliefs and principles that they have gathered from life experience and through various other sources. Not many college students are so engrained in their beliefs that they are not open to any other options. If they are in college, they are there to pursue an education. They are there for knowledge. Knowledge can be gained outside of a classroom. College is when people start to make decisions that can impact the rest of their life. Obviously high school students can make life altering decisions too, but these decisions are limited. The decisions college age adults make are completely limitless. College students are training to be the future leaders of this world. They are standing on the edge of a chasm of world change. All they have to do is jump and the world will never be the same. They will not die from this fall, but they will soar into unknown realms of thought that will bring so many new insights that will completely alter the very fabric of how the world functions. College students are the future (the near future anyway). Letting Jesus Christ work through these adults will set them down a road that will impact millions.