Andrew Armstrong, DBU student, recently submitted this commentary on recent the liturgical chapels. Nice to see an intelligent critique; ok, honestly I haven't read it word for word yet. Anyways, it's obviously way the heck superior to the weirdos who said the liturgical chapels were cultish. Here it is:

Mockery of mockeries!! If you attended chapel on Wednesday, March 31st, you know what I am talking about.

For the first time in a long time, in fact as long as I can remember, we had a descent chapel message. We were reminded of where we came from and what God did for us by taking way the vile dark spot of sin in our lives. Not to mention the confession of sin at the end of the chapel, what a wonderful concept for the followers of Christ to admit that we know how much he loves us and is willing to save us if we simply ask. However, what this chapel lacked was an audience. It went over the heads of all the sleeping and apathetic students who have seen too much of chapel and not enough spiritual meat from chapel. Too many times have we as students seen near heresy or the “feel good gospel” preached. No one seems to understand the God is more then a word, He’s a person; more then something to be talked about but someone to be talked to. I mean how many of the students cried out for God to have mercy on them for their transgressions only to be concerned about when the chapel will end and they could go to lunch! They invoked the name of God with no plan to speak to him! This is no shorter then taking the Lord’s name in vain! We mocked the power of God in our confession! Also, what kind of witness are we to the lost students on campus? We treat our God like an object, and we act as if His power is meaningless.

So who’s to blame for this atrocity? Well I believe that the trouble is with us all. First with the people who decided to have chapel two to tree times a week. Students just do not see the advantage of having bible lessons integrated with ones studies. However, how can the students see this advantage when the speakers we have for chapel teach us nothing of what it means to live a Christian life. All week get from chapel is a few side notes taken from a speaker of a friend passed down from father to son on how they thought life should be lived. Nothing from the word of God, which should be the desire of the student body. I say should be because the last blame lies within the student body who attend chapel merely because they it is required. We have become apathetic to the learning we should receive in chapel. This is the main reason the chapel we have it’s the way it is; it’s our own fault for allow something like this to continue with out question or suggestion. I leave you with a question. If we pay the money to make this our school, then way don’t we try to make sure that we get the spiritual education we sought when we chose a private college education?

Later Days

Andrew Armstrong

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