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:: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 ::

What if I said "Jesus" real loud? Last week, I was with a reporter and videographer from a regional TV station who were on campus to do the obligatory Princeton Review story about our allegedly unhappy students. I take the journalists to a residence hall cafeteria, where the camera attracts all kinds of attention from the students. Hey! Am I gonna be on TV? Interview me! Interview me! They settle on a number of tableside interviews -- the reporter squatting beside some diners explaining that the food isn't bad, and that life at UMR is really pretty decent -- when one kid in the midst of a group down the row of tables from the reporter decides to be a witness for Christ. So he cups his hands over his mouth and shouts JESUS! His buds all laugh, and suddenly this guy is pretty cool for his bold witness. The reporter and cameraman make another attempt at the interview, and again this guy cups his hands over his mouth and shouts JESUS! The reporter-videographer tandem move along to another group of students to interview. Meantime, I'm wanting to smack this kid upside the head for disrupting the tableside interviews with his antics.


What is the point of such antics? Does this guy really think he's being a bold witness for Christ? Has he listened to a certain Ray Boltz song one too many times at church camp? Is this what Christianity is all about?

:: Andrew 09:16 + ::
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