College Bound for Christians: A Christian Living Adulting Guide to Help Navigate Mental Health, Your Purpose, Friendship, College, Dating, and Faith by Peter Christian
Expert from you book:
College is a great place to make life-long friends, and every stranger you come in contact with is a potential friend. Many fall in love in college, while others defer dating until after their time on campus has expired. There’s nothing wrong with either road. Perhaps the best part of college is that the people you meet all seem to have crossed some magical “maturity bridge.”
Life is now a yin and yang. With independence comes responsibility. They’re two sides of the same coin. Now that it’s up to you when, how, and if you do anything, all of the consequences are yours as well. If you choose to be undisciplined with your diet, you’ll suffer the consequences of the dreaded “freshman fifteen.” If you choose to be undisciplined with your studies, you’ll suffer the consequences of being put on probation.
My next question (perhaps you’re asking it as well) is: with all this new and exciting change, does anything stay the same? With all that’s on the horizon, what about the things that are now behind you?
I hope there’s one thing you carry into this next phase of life: your FAITH.
As children, grade schoolers, and high schoolers, our parents’ faith is often our faith. What they believe, we believe. You go to church because they go to church. You go to summer camp and school-year youth group nights because, well, Mom and Dad said so. But guess what… That’s all over. Now, it’s up to you whether you practice your faith. It’s up to you to decide for yourself whether you believe any of this stuff in the first place.
If you do want to keep your faith throughout college and onward, then this book is here to help.
This book aims to help you reconcile your faith with college life. How do you do both at the same time? How do you take on college in a Christ-like way? How do you do adult things in a way that makes Him greater?
In the following chapters, we’ll go over:
Tips and tricks for surviving in college
How to succeed in your classes from a Christian perspective
How to find a new church
How to find Christian friends
How to find a Christian significant other
How to care for your mental health
How to find your purpose
How to keep the faith
Read it and take it seriously, and I think this book could make you more than capable of tackling all the independence and responsibility you have headed your way and coming out a better Christian on the other side.