At the end of chapter 3, Dan Hayes suggests writing out at least fifteen reasons why you believe your campus needs spiritual awakening and why your ministry needs revival. So, here are "15 Reasons why UofL needs spiritual awakening and Cru needs revival":
1. Most of the UofL athletes I know are alcoholics
2. Homosexuality is becoming more and more common and socially acceptable at UofL, especially within athletics
3. Pornography is so easy to access now and is robbing Christians of spiritual power
a. “Lust, sex, and pornography have diluted and neutralized our spiritual power.”
4. Crime is high around Louisville
5. Creation is dismissed as a valid scientific theory for the beginning of the universe
6. We need more freshmen! They are the future of the movement
7. The Elohim Academy (Mother God) people are saturating the campus, misleading spiritual seekers and filling Christians with doubt about their salvation
8. Other false teachers preach outside the SAC, promote distorted views of the gospel, and harden hearts towards Christ
9. LGBT services just added the letter Q for questioning to its acronym
10. Mormons are constantly riding around campus seeking to convince people to accept a twisted version of the gospel
11. Jehovah’s witnesses are also around campus and Louisville
12. So many of us Christians have “chosen to stay oppressed and impoverished, lowered the trajectory of our prayers, acquiesced to life as it is, accepted our circumstances, bowed to determinism, and embraced and anemic version of Christianity”!
13. Many Christians have admitted to these problems at UofL, but so few have been gripped by the problems and propelled to action! No one seems as outraged as Jesus was in the temple with his whip.
14. The “life interrupted” college mindset is prolific at UofL
15. “We have not killed Him, but we have made Him boring.” Christ and Christianity are perceived as boring on our campus!
These are not in any particular order, just the order I thought of them in.
What are your reasons? What "makes you weep and pound the table?"
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You paint the picture well, Scott. I always come back to that passage of Paul in Athens where "his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synogogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there" (Acts 17:16-17). What we see on campus ought to produce such anguish. And the resulting action.
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