Welcome back to the podcast. You send us the questions that are on your mind and

longtime author and Pastor John Piper opens his Bible and finds answers for those

questions and speaking of the big questions in life,

there's one major question facing every college student and that's the question of

major. what direction to go in life, what field to pursue, what college, what vocation, all of those things.

Many high school and college students seek to make that decision simply based on money.

But for Christians, the money decision is a secondary one, leading to today's question from

a young woman named Carrie. Pastor John and Tony, thank you for the Ask Pastor John podcast.

I have listened to every episode.

That's incredible.

That is incredible.

Oh my goodness. And most of those episodes while walking my dog to the point that my dog gets super

excited every time she hears the intro jingle.

That's the first time I've heard that. My question for you, Dr Piper, is this, when deciding on a college

major, how much should future income factor into the decision, what other general guidelines

and factors should be considered by a young

Christian wanting to not waste his or her life in the vocation he or she chooses.

I have a very personal stake in this kind of question because I do serve as the

Chancellor and Professor at Bethlehem College and Seminary here in Minneapolis. We have a college of a very particular kind and I feel that sense of responsibility to help parents and help young people decide if this school is possibly the kind that they would benefit from in attending.

What I'm going to say doesn't relate only to our school, but to education and vocation in general in the hope of helping

young people or even older people as we'll see.

I think people are making midlife changes about education and vocation all the time.

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