In Inerrancy and the Spiritual Formation of Younger Evangelicals, readers are urged to pastorally consider their own spiritual responsibilities toward students by taking more seriously six representative critical discoveries that students tend to make during the course of their higher education. By doing this, it is hoped that leaders and teachers might become more sensitive to the reality that younger evangelicals are not generally "already" convinced of the Bible's inerrancy. In fact, they may even be secretly and frantically searching for existentially workable bibliological alternatives. It behooves evangelical leaders, as responsible shepherds of God's people, to give their students the social and spiritual room they need to breathe. One way to do this is by offering them acceptably orthodox alternatives for understanding the inspiration and authority of the Bible.