‘Confession’ on campus
Throughout the day, there were couches set up on front campus and worship groups sharing their faith. Senior Kyle Borgognoni was one of the students that organized the event.
“The group that planned this event was not under any one ministry or organization, we just believe the voice of God is often misrepresented,” Borgognoni said. “We wanted to display how God truly feels about students and to demonstrate His love to them.”
There was also a confession booth set up with an interesting goal.
“We wanted to set up a confession booth. We feel like a lot of people have felt hurt by the Church through bad past experiences with it,” Borgognoni said. “This was our way as Christians of apologizing for that.”
The confession booth was centered on the idea of confession by Christians for the ways the Church may have turned people off to Christ previously.
Another goal of the students was to show God’s love and faithfulness.
“We prayed for a lot of sick people, we’ve seen them healed and it is just another thing we wanted to do that day,” Borgognoni said.
The students organizing the True Christian Voice felt that the campus needed to see God in a way that was non-threatening and loving. The group feels that the hell, fire and brimstone preachers, that are often seen in the free-speech zone on front campus, often turn people off to Christianity.
“We just had the intention to demonstrate God’s love, not just talk about it,” Borgognoni said.
One student who attended the event, junior Meagan Anderson, thought True Christian Voice was a great way to do this.
“I really liked the couches idea, it felt like people could just sit around and talk, the atmosphere was really relaxed, it was easy to do that,” Anderson said. “The music was really good as well; it was a great idea to do this.”
The group is not sure whether to make the True Christian Voice an annual thing, but Anderson feels if it is, more people should come out for it in the future.
“I thought it was a great idea to show God’s love in this way, but I wish it had been in a better location,” Anderson said. “It was really well thought out, but now that it has happened once, maybe more people will know about it and it will have a better turnout next time.”
Borgognoni was also pleased with how smooth the day ran.
“I thought it went good, it was really cold but we brought a couple of couches out to give people a comfortable feel,” Borgognoni said. “Somewhere they could just come and have a conversation about God.”
The members of this group wanted the GCSU community to see God as a reality and not as a distant and unreachable idea. In organizing True Christian Voice, the group wants to especially serve as a contrast to the typical public preaching where condemnation is typical. One of their main goals was to demonstrate how God really feels about his children, and to help pour his love out on the entire campus.
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on Nov 14 2008. Filed under News.
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