Greatest Need…
I don’t know what the greatest spiritual need in your church is, but I know the greatest spiritual need for most of my students. Being a campus of mostly 18-21 year olds, we have lots of spiritual needs, of course. Students are trying to overcome all kinds of sinful thought patterns, attitudes, words and deeds and to receive a variety of virtues from God to make them better people. But the greatest spiritual need among my students is not to escape Internet porn, or to quit letting their boyfriend “go too far” in dating. Its not even establishing more systematic devotions or even improved attitudes. The greatest spiritual need for my students is… well, to be perfectly honest—their greatest spiritual need is sleep.
Students are infamous for dismissing the need for sleep. One of my students put it, “I get serious about the next day’s work somewhere around midnight when things start quieting down in the dorm.” He meant <