2nd Place 2014 Video Contest

College Temptation and the Need for Biblical Guidance

Hello everybody my name is Kelly and I'm Mackenzie and we're here today to tell you a little story about GotQuestions .org and our college experience. Yeah so entering college there's a lot that's thrown at you.

You have tons of freedom and that comes with a lot of temptation. And not only were we students but we were also college athletes. So we were both on the lacrosse team together which made it even harder because every stereotype you hear about college athletes and parties, drugs, boys, all of that is totally true and that means that there's a lot of temptations to deal with on a day-to-day basis.

Peer Pressure, Team Culture, and Internal Battle

Yeah and like being part of a team like you want to be included and you want to fit in you know you're not in high school anymore you don't have your mom and daddy to like babysit you anymore so when your teammates go out and party and you want to go with them at the same time you can feel that God is saying hey this is not a good idea it's it's really an internal battle.

And having a friend on the team that shared those same morals the same foundation the same background as me was really really helpful but it wasn't the only resource that we had to keep ourselves out of trouble.

Using the Bible and GotQuestions.org for Practical Answers

Yeah so when we were struggling with that you know you can just pick up the Bible but for me sometimes it's kind of hard to pinpoint which scriptures are telling me what to do what's right and what's not so GotQuestions .org is a really great resource it's a great place to find out what the Bible says about alcohol you know sex drugs temptation how to fight off what the devil is throwing at you every day.

Encouragement to Keep Going in College and Follow the Lord

And we just wanted to let you know that it's out there it's a good resource we coach high school kids now so we know there's temptations all over the place that affect people every day and we just want to let you know that you guys can make it through use it as a good resource for yourselves and keep up the good fight.

Yep college is fun but it's better with the Lord.