UNIVERSITIES:
HIGHJACKING OUR YOUTH?
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If
any army was to lose three quarters of its forces it would not
be considered a defeat but a disaster. Statistically, 75% of young
people from Christian homes who enrol at university are lost to
the church.
Universities have not always been the temples of secular humanism,
and cesspools of moral decadence they have all too often become
today. There was a time when universities were centres of Biblical
Reformation. Many of the greatest Christian Reformers were university
professors.
John
Wycliffe, the “morning star of the Reformation”
was a professor at Oxford University. It was John Wycliffe who
first translated the New Testament (from Latin) into English and
mobilised the Lollards to travel throughout England to read, preach
and sing the Scriptures - in English.
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John Hus the great Reformer of Bohemia, who was burned at the
stake at Constance, was the Rector of the University of Prague.
The great German Reformer, Martin Luther was a professor at the
University of Wittenburg.
The Reformer, John Calvin, was the founder of the Academy of
Geneva which trained Reformers who transformed nations.
The English Reformer, William Tyndale, was a graduate of Oxford
University and studied at Cambridge. At that time both Oxford and Cambridge
were described as “hotbeds” of Biblical Reformation.
Tyndale was a gifted scholar and linguist who managed to translate the
New Testament from the original Greek, and most of the Old Testament
from Hebrew, into English. He had these “illegal Scriptures”
printed in Germany and smuggled the contraband into England in bales
of cotton. For this he was burned at the stake in 1536.
The very name “university” testifies to its Christian
origins. “University” means one truth. Most professors
today don't even believe that there is an objective truth. What has
happened that Western universities, which were mostly founded by Christians
and which often produced such dedicated Christian Reformers, have now
become synonymous with immorality, perversion and anti-Christian hostility?
One parent observed that the cost of giving his child the education
he never had, in university, was just over R240 000. In America I saw
an article written by one grieving parent entitled:
“I Spent $75000 To Send My Child To Hell!”
Many parents are determined that their child will get the education
that they never had. Thanks to some radical evolutionists and secular
humanist professors, many young people are indeed obtaining the education
that their parents never had. But this education often has little to
do with anything academic. Situation ethics, radical feminism, homosexual
“alternative lifestyles”, socialist economics, revisionist,
Marxist history, secular humanist religion, existentialist philosophy,
and blind anti-Christian prejudice, antagonism and hatred predominate
on campus.
Indeed, it could cost you R240 000 to send your child to hell. Would
you be willing to take a R240 000 gamble? More to the point, would you
be willing to gamble R240 000 and your son or daughter's future?
It is extraordinary how many Christian parents are willing to sacrifice
and pay good money to see their children indoctrinated by anti-Christian
professors.
The fact is: sending our children to college is a huge investment, both
financially, and spiritually. Before sending them to university, we
should ensure that they are practically and spiritually prepared to
deal with the issues, temptations and pressures that they will inevitably
face there.
The Summit
Youth Leadership and Worldview Training Course has been designed to
equip students with the facts and the skills they need to deal with
humanism and evolutionism. The Summit is a crash course to enable students
to understand and articulate the Christian worldview, to enable them
to answer the toughest questions and to practically prepare them so
that they can respond to every challenge to their Christian faith with
confidence.
Christianity is not for the weak minded. It is not enough to simply
believe. You have to know what you believe and why you
believe it. And you need to be able to defend it. The Summit will enable
you to understand and respond in a Biblical way to everything from relativism
to dualism, from Hollywood to humanism, from Marxism to Islam. The
Summit can change your life.
At the Summit you will encounter dedicated Christians seeking to live
with integrity and deal honestly and intelligently with life's challenges.
The Summit is packed full with mind stretching and life altering learning
and soul searching. It includes lots of fun, fellowship, hiking, volleyball
and water sports and many lifelong friendships begin there.
The Summit is great value for time and money. Some have commented that
it was the best investment that they have ever made. The Summit is packed
full with cutting edge research, films, presentations and valuable insights.
If you don't want your son or daughter to be conformed to this world,
but to be an effective Christian witness at university, send them to
this great survival course for the Christian mind and soul.
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that you may approve what is that good,
and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2
Our universities should not be doomed to decadence. By God's grace,
they can once again become centres of Biblical
Reformation. We need to thoroughly prepare and equip our young people
to be salt and light for the decadence and darkness of secular university
- to make an impact for Christ.
“See
to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy,
which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world
rather than on Christ.”
Colossians 2:8
Peter Hammond
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