Russell Moore is president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (Website Bio). He has recently made news as one of the few Southern Baptists to question support for the direction of the Republican party. While I would not agree with this man on several topics, I found this article on his website, and wanted to share it with my readers.
Please share with your graduating seniors.
May is graduation season. All across the country, thousands of high school seniors are getting ready to leave high school and hometown behind as they go off to college. This includes many Christian students, for whom a move to a new city means being away not just from the comforts of home, but from their home church. Away from the gathering of Christians they’ve known for years, many students will look to their school campus ministry to fill the void.
Here is the full article.
At the end of the article, he gives practical ways to stay connected to a church including:
- Resist the temptation to keep your membership in your home church.
- Join a church in your college town, as soon as you find one with a commitment to Christ and the Scripture.
- Find a church where some people will know your name, and will know if you are not present.
- Make a friend who will ask you where you were if you missed a weekend.
- Spend some time with people in your congregation who are not in the same place in life as you–a lonely senior adult, a harried thirty-something Mom, a sarcastic fourteen year-old kid.
- Pester the church leaders of the church for some way for you to exercise your gifts in the congregation–and let the leaders recognize and encourage your gifts.
