"The methods of indoctrination are likely to include not only required courses, but also freshman orientations, speech codes, mandatory diversity training, dorm room policies, guidelines for student organizations and mental health counseling," according to J. Budziszewski, author of How to Stay Christian in College.

According to research Dr. Gary Railsback and the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA conducted in 2001, there is a 17% to 59% chance that a Christian going into a college or university would say that they are no longer "born again" after four years! This conversion rate has increased for most types of colleges or universities since 1989.

Nancy Pearcey, author of Total Truth, says, "Young believers also need a 'brain' religion--training in worldview and apologetics--to equip them to analyze and critique worldviews they will encounter when they leave home... Training young people to develop a Christian mind is no longer an option; it is part of their necessary survival equipment. Many Christian students are not prepared to handle the well-prepared arguments of their highly educated liberal professors who are intolerant of Christian views."

If you think that sending your teen to a Christian college will avoid these issues, you may be quite shocked at the following statistics. According to the same research mentioned above, while private universities showed 45% of students reporting that they were no longer "born again" after 4 years of college, Protestant colleges revealed that number to be 31% and Catholic colleges to be 59%!

"I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." -John 17:14-15

Perhaps your son or daughter will choose what is behind door number two. What challenges await a young Christian just starting his/her career? Most large companies have policies that reflect secular worldviews. Your son may be frustrated to find that he is not welcome to pass out flyers that invite his co-workers to a Bible study, yet management has posted a memo about the Gay Pride Parade.

When I was working for a large corporation many years ago, an inter-office email invited me to a Bring Your Own Beer Party every Friday. One day a co-worker decided to email the office inviting them all to an alternative prayer meeting. She was told to cease and desist.

Many offices will offer Holiday Parties in lieu of Christmas Parties and will insist that employees say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. Most Christmas activities are now sanitized for secularism.

"And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." -Deuteronomy 6:7