{"id":301984,"date":"2010-02-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/college-is-a-team-sport\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T17:00:00","slug":"college-is-a-team-sport","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/college-is-a-team-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"College is a Team Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worried about making new friends at college?  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and they become your family.\u00a0 I felt like in college, especially, friends <strong>are<\/strong> your family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Man #4:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I think initially the friendships I had in my college years were ones that hurt me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Lady #3:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We challenged one another academically, we challenged one another spiritually, emotionally, all that.\u00a0 So that was the best thing for me to get through college was to just have that core group of friends.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Lady#4:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I don\u2019t necessarily think I had too many character-shaping friends.\u00a0 I think that was part of my problem.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Man #5:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>One thing about friendships in college is there is a friendship group for anything you want to do.\u00a0 So if you have an intention to go into any particular direction, you can find a group that will help lead you right to that point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Thanks for joining us.\u00a0 You know, listening to the voices of those, I guess those were all college graduates reflecting back on their college days, I was just thinking about my own college experience.\u00a0 When I left to go to college, my mom said to me, \u201cThese next four years\u2014these are going to be the greatest years of your life.\u00a0 You\u2019ll make friends here that you will keep for a lifetime.\u00a0 It is going to be fabulous.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So it was automatic for you as you were a freshman?\u00a0 You just fell right into a bunch of friendships.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Four years later, I had no idea what my mom had been talking about.\u00a0 I really didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Her college experience had been the greatest time of her life.\u00a0 She made friends that she kept for a lifetime.\u00a0 She loved it.\u00a0 My college years\u2014not so much.\u00a0 My high school years were great.\u00a0 When I got to college, I didn\u2019t know how to make friends.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>In fact, you said you were lonely as a freshman.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>My first semester\u2014now this was back in the day when you couldn\u2019t make long-distance phone calls from your cell phone for free like you can today.\u00a0 I ran up some pretty good AT&amp;T bills back my first year of college, just trying to stay connected to somebody relationally.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>With friends.\u00a0 You know, it is interesting around this whole subject of friends.\u00a0 I had a similar experience except my first two years, Bob, were not very good because spiritually I checked out of any relationship with God.\u00a0 The friends I had were around sports because I was on scholarship.\u00a0 Friends really reflect the values of the young person who is starting college.\u00a0 That is a frightening thought if the young person isn\u2019t quite sure what he or she values.\u00a0 We have with us a couple of guys who have worked on a project that I am real excited about.\u00a0 It has been about\u2014well, Robert, how many years in the making?\u00a0 Two or three years?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It has been about two years, from the time that John and I connected with each other and talked about a vision like this and got excited about it.\u00a0 It is finally done, and we are real excited about the release.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is the voice of Robert Lewis who is a pastor here in Little Rock, Arkansas, but also the President of Life Ready.\u00a0 He works in an organization that provides high-impact video resources to prepare couples, parents, men and women to embrace God\u2019s best for their marriages, families, and lives.\u00a0 FamilyLife is partnering with Robert to help make this a reality.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJohn Bryson also joins us, a pastor from Memphis, Tennessee, also a graduate from Dallas Theological Seminary, my alma mater\u2014I just want to plug our seminary choices there.\u00a0 Also, I think the thing that is really cool about John is that worked with Tommy Nelson, down at Denton Bible, for 11 years on the staff but served as the college pastor for seven years. So you really observed what we are talking about here, this loneliness factor with young people as they start out college. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely.\u00a0 I think I saw exactly what Bob described as the norm for most college students.\u00a0 For most of us, unless you have moved around a ton, friendships kind of happened to you and for you the first 18 years of your life.\u00a0 For a lot of college students getting to campus for the first time, they may be among 20,000, or 10,000, or 40,000.\u00a0 The thought hits them for the first time, \u201cHow in the world do I go about building new friendships?\u00a0 I have never had to do that, much less be equipped to do that.\u201d\u00a0 So that maze of doing that really can take guys to lonely places.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You stop and think about it, the elementary, junior high, high school years, you are just in a social community where, as you said, friendships happen.\u00a0 When I got to college, I went to my 9:00 class and then I had an hour and a half before my next one.\u00a0 So where did I go?\u00a0 Well, back to my dorm room.\u00a0 There is nobody in the dorm room\u2014it is just me and the TV or whatever I was using to kill time.\u00a0 Then I go to my next class.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI wasn\u2019t really meeting anybody in class; we were filing in, sitting down, listening to the lecture, getting up, and walking out.\u00a0 So unless you join a fraternity or sorority, or unless you are on a sports team, or unless you are in one of those natural settings, making friends at college is hard work.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know how to do it, and I don\u2019t think most teenagers know how to do it when they head off to college.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is exactly right.\u00a0 They are not equipped for it; and I don\u2019t think for many of them that they anticipate that experience.\u00a0 I think they have enjoyed, as we just said, that they have been placed in a social environment where friendships are made to happen.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow they get thrown into an environment where friendships don\u2019t happen unless they take some kind of initiative and unless they can identify some wise moves, what we call them, to build those relationships.\u00a0 That is what part of this video series is intended to do is to awaken a high school student to what is coming at them in the future and help them anticipate the key things that they need to do to be prepared to build, not just friendships, but empowering friendships.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I am wondering about that because if I was going to college today, I\u2019m not sure I would know how to initiate, how to break out.\u00a0 How do you coach these students in this series to move out and begin to test the waters in building friendships?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We definitely start each of the sessions with a real vision that, \u201cYou are going to want some close friends.\u00a0 You ought to be able to find, and pray for, and look toward two or three what we call character-shaping relationships that you can take with you for the rest of your life.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur tagline for this is that \u201cLife is a team sport.\u201d\u00a0 That ought to be a pursuit, a skill-set that you equip yourself with because there will be other transitions in your life\u2014moving to a new city, going to a new church\u2014where you need to learn how to engage, take the initiative, to engage well in friendships.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are some real clear principles we put in there like:\u00a0 \u201cTo have friends, you need to be a friend;\u201d \u201cLook to give--not to get;\u201d \u201cTo put yourself in strategic friendship environments.\u201d\u00a0 (Go to the places that the type of people you want to become friends with tend to hang-out.\u00a0 Take some initiative and do the work to build into some of those friendships.)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>As a mom or a dad, to coach your son or daughter, the key word phrase, \u201chealthy environments\u201d because I immediately thought, \u201cWhere do most young people go look for those relationships?\u201d\u00a0 A lot of them go to a bar.\u00a0 They don\u2019t think of church.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, I think there is some research out that points that if a young person doesn\u2019t get involved in church or a Christian organization in the first 90 days of their college experience, they are going to jettison the whole package for nearly all four years.\u00a0 Those first 90 days are really critical for a young person to connect with the right people.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is right.\u00a0 When you are there those first 90 days, you are lonely; you are looking for some affirmation.\u00a0 You want to bond.\u00a0 What is unfortunate\u2014if you bond to the wrong people, you tend to stay in that group until it finally destroys you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo we are telling the students, \u201cWhen you get to campus, when that orientation is going on, you are going to see, they are going to present to you with all kinds of different social outlets.\u00a0 What you need to be aware of is that you need to take that sampling seriously and ask, \u201cAre those environments I would like to be in because there will be good other men and women I would like to rub shoulders with?\u201d\u00a0 When you go there, you will connect.\u00a0 Once you connect, you will be on your way to building some long-term friendships that you will enjoy forever.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>One of the things I found interesting about your material is that it is intensely practical.\u00a0 John, you help a young person understand what happens to them if they don\u2019t get the right relationships.\u00a0 You talk about four outcomes that take place in a young person\u2019s life.\u00a0 Share those with our audience, please.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>These are really helpful for me.\u00a0 They actually came out of the <em>Men\u2019s Fraternity<\/em> material that Robert did that helped us figure out how to navigate this maze of friendship.\u00a0 If an individual doesn\u2019t have this, there were four things that we identified.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne was a warped perspective on life.\u00a0 Left to ourselves, it is amazing what we can talk ourselves into.\u00a0 God has rigged our life in such a way that it takes more than one set of eyes on us to really be able to see reality\u2014even as we were talking about, to help us find a healthy place.\u00a0 \u201cWhat is health?\u201d and \u201cHow do we find that?\u201d\u00a0 To be able to do that was definitely one of the challenges.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Just a comment about that\u2014in war, what the enemy does when he wants to break down a soldier, he puts him in isolation.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely.\u00a0 That is exactly right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I think that happens on the college campus with young people.\u00a0 The Enemy gets him in an isolated situation, and you can be convinced of anything in those circumstances.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely.\u00a0 That is exactly what we are speaking to.\u00a0 The second that we talked about is a strong potential for loose living when we break out of the herd, when we are on our own\u2014that tug, the pull of our flesh.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think about on the Discovery Channel, I use that illustration, where you see the lions coming upon the gazelles or the deer.\u00a0 They will circle them until one breaks away.\u00a0 Then when one breaks away, that is immediately where they go pounce.\u00a0 Within 12 seconds, it is dinner and bones.\u00a0 In a lot of ways, that is why we encourage guys and gals to lock arms with like-minded people immediately to deal with that potential of loose living.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You talk about this potential for loose living, and this is going to sound pretty harmless, but I have a distinct memory.\u00a0 My freshman year, it was a Tuesday night, and I didn\u2019t really have much studying that needed to be done, didn\u2019t have any place to go, anything to do.\u00a0 I thought to myself, \u201cI think I\u2019ll go to a movie.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never been to a movie on a Tuesday night before.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, movies\u2014you could only go to those\u2014Mom and Dad wouldn\u2019t let you go to a movie on a school night.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even care about the movie.\u00a0 I just wanted to go to a movie on a Tuesday night because now, all of a sudden, I could.\u00a0 Nobody was checking to see.\u00a0 There was a little bit of that \u201ctesting my own wings\u201d and saying, \u201cI can do this now.\u00a0 I can make these choices.\u201d\u00a0 Now that is pretty harmless choice.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Was it a good movie?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>No.\u00a0\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a particularly good movie (laughter); but it is a pretty harmless choice that a student makes.\u00a0 If your young person calls home from college the first semester and says, \u201cWell, I have to confess; I went to a movie on a Tuesday night.\u201d\u00a0 There aren\u2019t a whole lot of parents who are going to go, \u201cOur son has fallen off the deep end.\u201d\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 But the principle was there; we are starting to test our limits a little more and saying, \u201cThe restraints that used to be around us aren\u2019t there.\u201d\u00a0 For some students, they just go \u201chog wild.\u201d\u00a0 Can I say that to an Arkansas graduate, Robert?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.\u00a0 I\u2019ll let you do that.\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>They go \u201chog wild\u201d into choices that are not healthy choices.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I was thinking of myself.\u00a0 I went out of state to school.\u00a0 I was from Louisiana; went to Arkansas.\u00a0 The dorm I lived in, I was the only person from Louisiana so those first couple of months were desperately lonely times.\u00a0 I remember sitting in my dorm and thinking I knew one guy from Louisiana who was in a fraternity.\u00a0 I already knew the guy was not a guy that I particularly would want to run with; but because I didn\u2019t know anybody else, I called him up.\u00a0 He said, \u201cWell come on down to the fraternity.\u201d\u00a0 So I went down there.\u00a0 Within three weeks, I joined the fraternity.\u00a0 My life was totally out of control.\u00a0 It was just because of that first choice.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That one friendship.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That one friend\u2026well, it was just a connection; but it was driven out of the desperateness of loneliness.\u00a0 Once I got hooked into that group, for the rest of that semester I was in this whirlwind of parties and out-of-control living.\u00a0 I stayed there for one reason\u2014because I didn\u2019t\u2019 know anybody else but those guys.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I think the word I would put to that is there is a \u201cvulnerability\u201d that first semester.\u00a0 If you are left alone, it just heightens that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe third thing we really point to when we are helping college students understand the importance of empowering friendships and stepping out of isolation and loneliness toward quality people has to do with this loss that happens when it comes to motivation for the noble things in life.\u00a0 It usually takes, and God usually uses other high-character people, to call us toward what we talk about \u201cthe noble pathways.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEven in my own life, I think about how it was always a high-character person God used to challenge me to do some of the most noble things I did in college, whether it was to go on a missions trip.\u00a0 There was an upper-classman that I had connected with in a campus ministry who challenged me to go and invest a summer overseas.\u00a0 The list could\u2026to go find a mentor.\u00a0\u00a0 I would not have done that if left to me, or just my normal peer group would not have encouraged that, or challenged that, or praised that.\u00a0 Alone, isolated, disconnected, or connected to the wrong people, you won\u2019t get motivation toward those noble pathways.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes; but the high-character people are not walking around with signs on their back saying, \u201cI am a high-character person.\u201d\u00a0 So how do you know who the high-character people are so you can get that influence?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is what drives us back to one of the wise moves John talked about\u2014about finding those healthy environments.\u00a0 I mean, they are out there.\u00a0 You get on campus\u2014maybe you don\u2019t know about the churches in that area, but you can start sampling those churches.\u00a0 All of a sudden you connect with one that has a great ministry with college students\u2014it\u2019s alive; it\u2019s vibrant; it\u2019s relevant.\u00a0 All of a sudden you go, \u201cThese are my kind of people.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr maybe there is some other social group or campus ministry that is there.\u00a0 The thing about that first semester is, \u201cYou are a pioneer, an explorer.\u201d\u00a0 But if you are told, \u201cDon\u2019t connect too quickly; go sample those.\u201d\u00a0 What happens in that sampling process is you usually run into an environment where you go, \u201cThese are my kind of people.\u00a0 These are the kind of people who will call out the best in me\u2014those noble things--rather than put me in an environment where just to be accepted, I\u2019ll do anything.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Right.\u00a0 I Corinthians 15 says, \u201cBad company corrupts good morals.\u201d\u00a0 That first semester of your freshman year\u2014that can happen, and it could ruin a college experience in a hurry.\u00a0 What is the fourth caution to young people about the power of friendships?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The fourth caution is kind of what we have already spoken to.\u00a0 There is a threat of just character corruption.\u00a0 It is the cost\u2014it is the price tag of attaching yourself to low-character people.\u00a0 You end up doing things you never thought you would do.\u00a0 You end up in places you never thought you would be.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob, something you mentioned a minute ago, it is rare.\u00a0 I think to prepare people for the rarity of character-shaping relationships and mentors in upperclassmen you can look up to is part of preparing them for college.\u00a0 I think of a Proverb that talks about how rare things are precious.\u00a0 They are precious because they are rare; and they are rare because they are precious.\u00a0 That is why we really challenge parents, really challenge high school students to begin praying for that and to look for three or four of those.\u00a0 To look for a mentor or two over those four years who are encouraging you toward those noble pathways.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You know, listening to you talk about the importance of friendships, I am thinking not only of the loneliness I felt my freshman year in college, but also about how immature I was in terms of relationships and friendships.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was looking around for friends.\u00a0 What I meant by that was, people who would validate me, people who would give me some sense of meaning and worth.\u00a0 It was really\u2014you talked about being needy\u2014I don\u2019t know that I would have said I was a needy person, but I really was.\u00a0 I wanted somebody to say, \u201cHey, you are a cool guy.\u201d\u00a0 So anybody who would say that, that was my friend.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t looking for, \u201cIron sharpens iron.\u201d\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t looking for, \u201cHow can we pray for one another, and how can we support\u2026?\u201d\u00a0 I just wanted people to think I was cool.\u00a0 If you would do that, you were my friend.\u00a0 That is just the reality of where I was.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And you know what happens.\u00a0 Satan says, \u201cI\u2019ll give you a guy like that.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll validate you, but I\u2019m going to pull you into a sink hole.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>One of the things about this series is on this particular session on friendships, the title is not \u201cFriendships.\u201d\u00a0 The title is \u201cEmpowering Friendships\u201d\u2014the kind of friendships that call out the best in you.\u00a0 John talks about that and even encourages these students to not only pray for these kinds of friends, but to be a good friend.\u00a0 He gives real practical suggestions of how you can be a good friend.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, he says, \u201cWhen you get on the college campus, one of the first things you ought to do is start serving your roommates.\u00a0 Try to build into people.\u00a0 Try to do something good for somebody else.\u00a0 Get the focus off of yourself because to have friends, great friends who call out the best, you need to be a good friend.\u201d\u00a0 Again, he is waking these high school seniors up to adulthood and to start acting like an adult; but he gives him practical handles to actually implement that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is what this series speaks to is a vision to even begin to look for that or what to look\u2026some kind of idea.\u00a0 I think just passing that on to an 18-year-old who may not be fully ready to fully engage in friendship in all the ways we would want them to over the next few years but\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, they have to grow up. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Exactly.\u00a0 So we are trying to be realistic in this--but to even give them a vision that, \u201cThis is what you want, and it is precious and rare.\u00a0 They will shape your character, one way or another.\u00a0 Man, they are going to be few and rare, and let\u2019s look and pray toward that end.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The cool thing is, there are resources on the web that can enable parents and students to be able to connect to some healthy relationships like we are talking about.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I know when we were sending our kids off to college we did exactly what you are talking about.\u00a0 We tried to take the spiritual temperature.\u00a0 When we do a campus visit, we would look around and say, \u201cWhat do we see on the dorm walls?\u201d, talk about Bible study or churches in the area, and then to go online.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tA lot of colleges will list student organizations, religious organizations that are on the campus.\u00a0 It gives you a picture ahead of time of where you are sending your student.\u00a0 I am sitting here, thinking, \u201cTo send a high school senior off to college, prepped with this material, versus sending him off without this preparation, it is night and day.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It is.\u00a0 You know what, and even the language\u2014just the language at the top\u2014empowering friendships.\u00a0 \u201cSon,\u201d or \u201cDaughter, we are going to look for where empowering friendships are.\u201d\u00a0 There is the vision.\u00a0 And go, \u201cWell, those are ones who will call out the best in you.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo now we surf the web; we go to college week; during orientation, we\u2019re looking around.\u00a0 Then when I call my son or daughter that freshman year, I say, \u201cHow is your search for empowering friends going?\u201d\u00a0 All of a sudden we have a language.\u00a0 What is lacking with most parents\u2014they have no language so they don\u2019t even know how to ask the right thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And know how to pray for their son or daughter as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, how to pray as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>What we are talking about here is a video series called <em>College Ready<\/em> that parents can help lead in a youth group or bring into their own home and invite some kids over for some popcorn over a period of five or six weeks.\u00a0 Take them through a college preparation course to help them go to college on purpose.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is exactly right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>If you go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com, there is information available there about this video series:\u00a0 You can see some clips of the videos if you would like to, information on how you can order the DVDs, how you can order additional workbooks for students whether you are doing this for a church group or just for a group of your son or daughter\u2019s friends.\u00a0 All the information you need is online:\u00a0 FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me also mention that on our website there is also information about a great graduation gift you can give to a high school senior.\u00a0 It is the <em>ConGRADulations<\/em>: <em>Class of 2010 <\/em>music CD--20 songs from groups like Skillet, TobyMac, Lecrae, Owl City, Flyleaf, Reliant K, and others.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is also a companion media DVD that has interviews with artists and speakers, and fellow graduate greetings, advice.\u00a0 There is a 48-page gift book that comes along with it, and we send to Mom and Dad an audio CD where Dennis and Barbara talk about the kinds of things we need to make sure as parents we have covered with our sons and daughters before we launch them off to college.\u00a0 Again, more information about that resource can be found online at FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the resources you are aware of, Dennis, can be found online is a website called Everystudent.com that helps parents know what is going on spiritually on college campuses all across the country.\u00a0 It gives names of organizations and ministries that are taking place on campuses, it gives contact information.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0 That is right.\u00a0 It will help you connect with a person that perhaps you can introduce your son or daughter to when you go visit that campus.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.\u00a0 Again, we have a link to the Everystudent website on our website, FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 So go to FamilyLifeToday.com, and everything you need can be found there.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf it is easier to call, 1-800-FLTODAY is the number.\u00a0 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 That is 1-800-F as in \u201cFamily\u201d L as in \u201cLife\u201d and then the word, \u201cTODAY\u201d.\u00a0 We are aware here at FamilyLife that some of you who have been listening, have just started listening to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Maybe somebody told you about the program, or you just came across it on your station, or maybe you are just recently married or just recently had kids, and all of a sudden you just started paying more attention to a program like <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, we have a special getting-to-know- us offer we would like to make this week.\u00a0 We came across a great little book for families called <em>99 Ways to Entertain Your Family 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So you really observed what we are talking about here, this loneliness factor with young people as they start out college. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely.\u00a0 I think I saw exactly what Bob described as the norm for most college students.\u00a0 For most of us, unless you have moved around a ton, friendships kind of happened to you and for you the first 18 years of your life.\u00a0 For a lot of college students getting to campus for the first time, they may be among 20,000, or 10,000, or 40,000.\u00a0 The thought hits them for the first time, \u201cHow in the world do I go about building new friendships?\u00a0 I have never had to do that, much less be equipped to do that.\u201d\u00a0 So that maze of doing that really can take guys to lonely places.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You stop and think about it, the elementary, junior high, high school years, you are just in a social community where, as you said, friendships happen.\u00a0 When I got to college, I went to my 9:00 class and then I had an hour and a half before my next one.\u00a0 So where did I go?\u00a0 Well, back to my dorm room.\u00a0 There is nobody in the dorm room\u2014it is just me and the TV or whatever I was using to kill time.\u00a0 Then I go to my next class.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI wasn\u2019t really meeting anybody in class; we were filing in, sitting down, listening to the lecture, getting up, and walking out.\u00a0 So unless you join a fraternity or sorority, or unless you are on a sports team, or unless you are in one of those natural settings, making friends at college is hard work.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know how to do it, and I don\u2019t think most teenagers know how to do it when they head off to college.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is exactly right.\u00a0 They are not equipped for it; and I don\u2019t think for many of them that they anticipate that experience.\u00a0 I think they have enjoyed, as we just said, that they have been placed in a social environment where friendships are made to happen.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow they get thrown into an environment where friendships don\u2019t happen unless they take some kind of initiative and unless they can identify some wise moves, what we call them, to build those relationships.\u00a0 That is what part of this video series is intended to do is to awaken a high school student to what is coming at them in the future and help them anticipate the key things that they need to do to be prepared to build, not just friendships, but empowering friendships.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I am wondering about that because if I was going to college today, I\u2019m not sure I would know how to initiate, how to break out.\u00a0 How do you coach these students in this series to move out and begin to test the waters in building friendships?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We definitely start each of the sessions with a real vision that, \u201cYou are going to want some close friends.\u00a0 You ought to be able to find, and pray for, and look toward two or three what we call character-shaping relationships that you can take with you for the rest of your life.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur tagline for this is that \u201cLife is a team sport.\u201d\u00a0 That ought to be a pursuit, a skill-set that you equip yourself with because there will be other transitions in your life\u2014moving to a new city, going to a new church\u2014where you need to learn how to engage, take the initiative, to engage well in friendships.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are some real clear principles we put in there like:\u00a0 \u201cTo have friends, you need to be a friend;\u201d \u201cLook to give--not to get;\u201d \u201cTo put yourself in strategic friendship environments.\u201d\u00a0 (Go to the places that the type of people you want to become friends with tend to hang-out.\u00a0 Take some initiative and do the work to build into some of those friendships.)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>As a mom or a dad, to coach your son or daughter, the key word phrase, \u201chealthy environments\u201d because I immediately thought, \u201cWhere do most young people go look for those relationships?\u201d\u00a0 A lot of them go to a bar.\u00a0 They don\u2019t think of church.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, I think there is some research out that points that if a young person doesn\u2019t get involved in church or a Christian organization in the first 90 days of their college experience, they are going to jettison the whole package for nearly all four years.\u00a0 Those first 90 days are really critical for a young person to connect with the right people.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is right.\u00a0 When you are there those first 90 days, you are lonely; you are looking for some affirmation.\u00a0 You want to bond.\u00a0 What is unfortunate\u2014if you bond to the wrong people, you tend to stay in that group until it finally destroys you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo we are telling the students, \u201cWhen you get to campus, when that orientation is going on, you are going to see, they are going to present to you with all kinds of different social outlets.\u00a0 What you need to be aware of is that you need to take that sampling seriously and ask, \u201cAre those environments I would like to be in because there will be good other men and women I would like to rub shoulders with?\u201d\u00a0 When you go there, you will connect.\u00a0 Once you connect, you will be on your way to building some long-term friendships that you will enjoy forever.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>One of the things I found interesting about your material is that it is intensely practical.\u00a0 John, you help a young person understand what happens to them if they don\u2019t get the right relationships.\u00a0 You talk about four outcomes that take place in a young person\u2019s life.\u00a0 Share those with our audience, please.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>These are really helpful for me.\u00a0 They actually came out of the <em>Men\u2019s Fraternity<\/em> material that Robert did that helped us figure out how to navigate this maze of friendship.\u00a0 If an individual doesn\u2019t have this, there were four things that we identified.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne was a warped perspective on life.\u00a0 Left to ourselves, it is amazing what we can talk ourselves into.\u00a0 God has rigged our life in such a way that it takes more than one set of eyes on us to really be able to see reality\u2014even as we were talking about, to help us find a healthy place.\u00a0 \u201cWhat is health?\u201d and \u201cHow do we find that?\u201d\u00a0 To be able to do that was definitely one of the challenges.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Just a comment about that\u2014in war, what the enemy does when he wants to break down a soldier, he puts him in isolation.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely.\u00a0 That is exactly right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I think that happens on the college campus with young people.\u00a0 The Enemy gets him in an isolated situation, and you can be convinced of anything in those circumstances.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely.\u00a0 That is exactly what we are speaking to.\u00a0 The second that we talked about is a strong potential for loose living when we break out of the herd, when we are on our own\u2014that tug, the pull of our flesh.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think about on the Discovery Channel, I use that illustration, where you see the lions coming upon the gazelles or the deer.\u00a0 They will circle them until one breaks away.\u00a0 Then when one breaks away, that is immediately where they go pounce.\u00a0 Within 12 seconds, it is dinner and bones.\u00a0 In a lot of ways, that is why we encourage guys and gals to lock arms with like-minded people immediately to deal with that potential of loose living.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You talk about this potential for loose living, and this is going to sound pretty harmless, but I have a distinct memory.\u00a0 My freshman year, it was a Tuesday night, and I didn\u2019t really have much studying that needed to be done, didn\u2019t have any place to go, anything to do.\u00a0 I thought to myself, \u201cI think I\u2019ll go to a movie.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never been to a movie on a Tuesday night before.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, movies\u2014you could only go to those\u2014Mom and Dad wouldn\u2019t let you go to a movie on a school night.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even care about the movie.\u00a0 I just wanted to go to a movie on a Tuesday night because now, all of a sudden, I could.\u00a0 Nobody was checking to see.\u00a0 There was a little bit of that \u201ctesting my own wings\u201d and saying, \u201cI can do this now.\u00a0 I can make these choices.\u201d\u00a0 Now that is pretty harmless choice.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Was it a good movie?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>No.\u00a0\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a particularly good movie (laughter); but it is a pretty harmless choice that a student makes.\u00a0 If your young person calls home from college the first semester and says, \u201cWell, I have to confess; I went to a movie on a Tuesday night.\u201d\u00a0 There aren\u2019t a whole lot of parents who are going to go, \u201cOur son has fallen off the deep end.\u201d\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 But the principle was there; we are starting to test our limits a little more and saying, \u201cThe restraints that used to be around us aren\u2019t there.\u201d\u00a0 For some students, they just go \u201chog wild.\u201d\u00a0 Can I say that to an Arkansas graduate, Robert?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.\u00a0 I\u2019ll let you do that.\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>They go \u201chog wild\u201d into choices that are not healthy choices.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I was thinking of myself.\u00a0 I went out of state to school.\u00a0 I was from Louisiana; went to Arkansas.\u00a0 The dorm I lived in, I was the only person from Louisiana so those first couple of months were desperately lonely times.\u00a0 I remember sitting in my dorm and thinking I knew one guy from Louisiana who was in a fraternity.\u00a0 I already knew the guy was not a guy that I particularly would want to run with; but because I didn\u2019t know anybody else, I called him up.\u00a0 He said, \u201cWell come on down to the fraternity.\u201d\u00a0 So I went down there.\u00a0 Within three weeks, I joined the fraternity.\u00a0 My life was totally out of control.\u00a0 It was just because of that first choice.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That one friendship.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That one friend\u2026well, it was just a connection; but it was driven out of the desperateness of loneliness.\u00a0 Once I got hooked into that group, for the rest of that semester I was in this whirlwind of parties and out-of-control living.\u00a0 I stayed there for one reason\u2014because I didn\u2019t\u2019 know anybody else but those guys.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I think the word I would put to that is there is a \u201cvulnerability\u201d that first semester.\u00a0 If you are left alone, it just heightens that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe third thing we really point to when we are helping college students understand the importance of empowering friendships and stepping out of isolation and loneliness toward quality people has to do with this loss that happens when it comes to motivation for the noble things in life.\u00a0 It usually takes, and God usually uses other high-character people, to call us toward what we talk about \u201cthe noble pathways.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEven in my own life, I think about how it was always a high-character person God used to challenge me to do some of the most noble things I did in college, whether it was to go on a missions trip.\u00a0 There was an upper-classman that I had connected with in a campus ministry who challenged me to go and invest a summer overseas.\u00a0 The list could\u2026to go find a mentor.\u00a0\u00a0 I would not have done that if left to me, or just my normal peer group would not have encouraged that, or challenged that, or praised that.\u00a0 Alone, isolated, disconnected, or connected to the wrong people, you won\u2019t get motivation toward those noble pathways.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes; but the high-character people are not walking around with signs on their back saying, \u201cI am a high-character person.\u201d\u00a0 So how do you know who the high-character people are so you can get that influence?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is what drives us back to one of the wise moves John talked about\u2014about finding those healthy environments.\u00a0 I mean, they are out there.\u00a0 You get on campus\u2014maybe you don\u2019t know about the churches in that area, but you can start sampling those churches.\u00a0 All of a sudden you connect with one that has a great ministry with college students\u2014it\u2019s alive; it\u2019s vibrant; it\u2019s relevant.\u00a0 All of a sudden you go, \u201cThese are my kind of people.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr maybe there is some other social group or campus ministry that is there.\u00a0 The thing about that first semester is, \u201cYou are a pioneer, an explorer.\u201d\u00a0 But if you are told, \u201cDon\u2019t connect too quickly; go sample those.\u201d\u00a0 What happens in that sampling process is you usually run into an environment where you go, \u201cThese are my kind of people.\u00a0 These are the kind of people who will call out the best in me\u2014those noble things--rather than put me in an environment where just to be accepted, I\u2019ll do anything.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Right.\u00a0 I Corinthians 15 says, \u201cBad company corrupts good morals.\u201d\u00a0 That first semester of your freshman year\u2014that can happen, and it could ruin a college experience in a hurry.\u00a0 What is the fourth caution to young people about the power of friendships?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The fourth caution is kind of what we have already spoken to.\u00a0 There is a threat of just character corruption.\u00a0 It is the cost\u2014it is the price tag of attaching yourself to low-character people.\u00a0 You end up doing things you never thought you would do.\u00a0 You end up in places you never thought you would be.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob, something you mentioned a minute ago, it is rare.\u00a0 I think to prepare people for the rarity of character-shaping relationships and mentors in upperclassmen you can look up to is part of preparing them for college.\u00a0 I think of a Proverb that talks about how rare things are precious.\u00a0 They are precious because they are rare; and they are rare because they are precious.\u00a0 That is why we really challenge parents, really challenge high school students to begin praying for that and to look for three or four of those.\u00a0 To look for a mentor or two over those four years who are encouraging you toward those noble pathways.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You know, listening to you talk about the importance of friendships, I am thinking not only of the loneliness I felt my freshman year in college, but also about how immature I was in terms of relationships and friendships.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was looking around for friends.\u00a0 What I meant by that was, people who would validate me, people who would give me some sense of meaning and worth.\u00a0 It was really\u2014you talked about being needy\u2014I don\u2019t know that I would have said I was a needy person, but I really was.\u00a0 I wanted somebody to say, \u201cHey, you are a cool guy.\u201d\u00a0 So anybody who would say that, that was my friend.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t looking for, \u201cIron sharpens iron.\u201d\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t looking for, \u201cHow can we pray for one another, and how can we support\u2026?\u201d\u00a0 I just wanted people to think I was cool.\u00a0 If you would do that, you were my friend.\u00a0 That is just the reality of where I was.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And you know what happens.\u00a0 Satan says, \u201cI\u2019ll give you a guy like that.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll validate you, but I\u2019m going to pull you into a sink hole.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>One of the things about this series is on this particular session on friendships, the title is not \u201cFriendships.\u201d\u00a0 The title is \u201cEmpowering Friendships\u201d\u2014the kind of friendships that call out the best in you.\u00a0 John talks about that and even encourages these students to not only pray for these kinds of friends, but to be a good friend.\u00a0 He gives real practical suggestions of how you can be a good friend.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, he says, \u201cWhen you get on the college campus, one of the first things you ought to do is start serving your roommates.\u00a0 Try to build into people.\u00a0 Try to do something good for somebody else.\u00a0 Get the focus off of yourself because to have friends, great friends who call out the best, you need to be a good friend.\u201d\u00a0 Again, he is waking these high school seniors up to adulthood and to start acting like an adult; but he gives him practical handles to actually implement that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is what this series speaks to is a vision to even begin to look for that or what to look\u2026some kind of idea.\u00a0 I think just passing that on to an 18-year-old who may not be fully ready to fully engage in friendship in all the ways we would want them to over the next few years but\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, they have to grow up. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Exactly.\u00a0 So we are trying to be realistic in this--but to even give them a vision that, \u201cThis is what you want, and it is precious and rare.\u00a0 They will shape your character, one way or another.\u00a0 Man, they are going to be few and rare, and let\u2019s look and pray toward that end.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The cool thing is, there are resources on the web that can enable parents and students to be able to connect to some healthy relationships like we are talking about.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I know when we were sending our kids off to college we did exactly what you are talking about.\u00a0 We tried to take the spiritual temperature.\u00a0 When we do a campus visit, we would look around and say, \u201cWhat do we see on the dorm walls?\u201d, talk about Bible study or churches in the area, and then to go online.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tA lot of colleges will list student organizations, religious organizations that are on the campus.\u00a0 It gives you a picture ahead of time of where you are sending your student.\u00a0 I am sitting here, thinking, \u201cTo send a high school senior off to college, prepped with this material, versus sending him off without this preparation, it is night and day.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It is.\u00a0 You know what, and even the language\u2014just the language at the top\u2014empowering friendships.\u00a0 \u201cSon,\u201d or \u201cDaughter, we are going to look for where empowering friendships are.\u201d\u00a0 There is the vision.\u00a0 And go, \u201cWell, those are ones who will call out the best in you.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo now we surf the web; we go to college week; during orientation, we\u2019re looking around.\u00a0 Then when I call my son or daughter that freshman year, I say, \u201cHow is your search for empowering friends going?\u201d\u00a0 All of a sudden we have a language.\u00a0 What is lacking with most parents\u2014they have no language so they don\u2019t even know how to ask the right thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And know how to pray for their son or daughter as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, how to pray as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>What we are talking about here is a video series called <em>College Ready<\/em> that parents can help lead in a youth group or bring into their own home and invite some kids over for some popcorn over a period of five or six weeks.\u00a0 Take them through a college preparation course to help them go to college on purpose.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is exactly right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>If you go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com, there is information available there about this video series:\u00a0 You can see some clips of the videos if you would like to, information on how you can order the DVDs, how you can order additional workbooks for students whether you are doing this for a church group or just for a group of your son or daughter\u2019s friends.\u00a0 All the information you need is online:\u00a0 FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me also mention that on our website there is also information about a great graduation gift you can give to a high school senior.\u00a0 It is the <em>ConGRADulations<\/em>: <em>Class of 2010 <\/em>music CD--20 songs from groups like Skillet, TobyMac, Lecrae, Owl City, Flyleaf, Reliant K, and others.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is also a companion media DVD that has interviews with artists and speakers, and fellow graduate greetings, advice.\u00a0 There is a 48-page gift book that comes along with it, and we send to Mom and Dad an audio CD where Dennis and Barbara talk about the kinds of things we need to make sure as parents we have covered with our sons and daughters before we launch them off to college.\u00a0 Again, more information about that resource can be found online at FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the resources you are aware of, Dennis, can be found online is a website called Everystudent.com that helps parents know what is going on spiritually on college campuses all across the country.\u00a0 It gives names of organizations and ministries that are taking place on campuses, it gives contact information.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0 That is right.\u00a0 It will help you connect with a person that perhaps you can introduce your son or daughter to when you go visit that campus.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.\u00a0 Again, we have a link to the Everystudent website on our website, FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 So go to FamilyLifeToday.com, and everything you need can be found there.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf it is easier to call, 1-800-FLTODAY is the number.\u00a0 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 That is 1-800-F as in \u201cFamily\u201d L as in \u201cLife\u201d and then the word, \u201cTODAY\u201d.\u00a0 We are aware here at FamilyLife that some of you who have been listening, have just started listening to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Maybe somebody told you about the program, or you just came across it on your station, or maybe you are just recently married or just recently had kids, and all of a sudden you just started paying more attention to a program like <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, we have a special getting-to-know- us offer we would like to make this week.\u00a0 We came across a great little book for families called <em>99 Ways to Entertain Your Family for Free<\/em>.\u00a0 It is more than 100 pages of no-cost ways to have a good time together as a family.\u00a0 We would love to send you a copy just as our way of saying, \u201cThanks for listening,\u201d and \u201cNice to hear from you.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAll you have to do is call 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 Say, \u201cI am interested in that book they were talking about on the radio\u2014the <em>99 Ways to Entertain Your Family for Free<\/em> book.\u00a0 Pass along your name and address, and we will send it out to you.\u00a0 Again, it is our way of saying, \u201cThanks for listening to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>\u201d and we hope we can be a resource to you in the future, not only through our daily radio program but through our website, FamilyLifeToday.com, our online magazine, <em>The Family Room<\/em>, and the other resources we have available here at <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em>\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, call 1-800-FLTODAY to request your copy of the book <em>99Ways to Entertain Your Family for Free<\/em>.\u00a0 We will send it out to you at no cost; it is that simple.\u00a0 We do appreciate your listening to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe hope you will be back tomorrow.\u00a0 We are going to continue talking about getting our sons and daughters ready for the college campus.\u00a0 We are going to talk about one of the things that they are excited about, and that is having a lot of fun when they go to college.\u00a0 That is a goodthing.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk about how to make sure it stays a good thing with your son or your daughter tomorrow.\u00a0 Hope you can be with us for that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Phil Krause, and our entire broadcast production team. 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