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This piece is very off-base, I think.

For most of us, most of the time, we go along to get along. Who's to say these kids were or are doing anything different. When you're 16 years old, living in a conservative community where few people openly question the church and living in the home of a religious family, going to church and youth group activities and making a good show of it is the natural thing to do. Easier, feels fine, and not doing it might even get your punished. Get to college: you're living in a liberal community where everyone openly questions the church, and having nothing to do with it is the natural thing to do.

Everyone should want their children to have the challenge to their faith that college provides -- to come out of it choosing to believe rather than practicing as they're told, and to have come out still believing after having confronted the intellectual challenges to faith that college certainly will provide.

This piece is very off-base, I think.

I agree, many older kids go along with going to church just out of respect of their parents wishes or to get along with them and then go along in taking part in a ministry out of respect for the Church.

What is the point in learning the Gospel of Christ if they never get a chance to go out into the world and use it?

How many people in Church are hungry or thirsty or need helped out of the ditch?

Everyone should want their children to have the challenge to their faith that college provides — to come out of it choosing to believe rather than practicing as they’re told, and to have come out still believing after having confronted the intellectual challenges to faith that college certainly will provide.
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Only 15% of children attending godless government schooling survive that challenge.

95% of homeschoolers do.

So?....Should parents choose the option with the best chances of saving their child’s soul and avoiding the very serious temporal consequences or should they choose the option with a better record of success?