ABondSlaveofChristJesus
Puritan Board Freshman
You were born and raised Southern Baptist. One day you feel a "calling" toward the youth ministry. So you talk with your pastor and he recommends A Southern Baptist Bible College. You love and trust your pastor to death and take his recommendation very seriously. After visiting the school you are transfixed on going there as you believe God has told you this is your school. As you join you come across the doctrine of Calvinism. After wrestling and praying you become sold that this doctrine is truth. This doctrine eventually leads you into the path of reformed theology. As you begin to study and agree to the reformed beliefs you find your old views crumbling in front of you. You realize that your church reering experience was watered down and lazy in theology, ecumenical, and irreverent. What is worse is that your in a youth program that is exactly that! After observing the results of this program, by seeing the negative affects the graduates have on the churches they are staffed in, you begin to speak out against it. You believe something must be done to for God\'s sake and for the potential deception of many brothers and sisters. Due to the weak standards of the youth program, you leave it and attempt to get a degree in Biblical Studies.
Now, you have a blogring/online journal. You use it to rant thoughts for your friends and anyone else in public to read. One day you decide to make a post about the lacking state of the Youth Program. Your write out your concerned opinion about how the program is lacking and needs to change.
A couple weeks later, out of nowhere you get a message to go to the deans office. The dean reveals that he has been given printed paper of this post and claims that it was inappropriate to write anything negative about the university. He tells you that you have basically two options. 1.) You can refute your statements and sign a sheet saying so, and take the punishment of being expelled for a week. or 2.) you must withdraw. You ask for 24 hours to consider it. The dean refuses your request and forces you to make a decision. To sign the sheet would mean to adhere to what you believe to be impurities and destruction in the Church. Signing the sheet would violate your conscious and convictions. Therefore you can only go with the second option. By being forced to withdrawal. The consequences of your withdrawal is that you lose several thousand dollars that you worked hard for, and a hiatus in your graduation
progress.
What do you do now?
[edited for public view]
[Edited on 3-19-05 by pastorway]
Now, you have a blogring/online journal. You use it to rant thoughts for your friends and anyone else in public to read. One day you decide to make a post about the lacking state of the Youth Program. Your write out your concerned opinion about how the program is lacking and needs to change.
A couple weeks later, out of nowhere you get a message to go to the deans office. The dean reveals that he has been given printed paper of this post and claims that it was inappropriate to write anything negative about the university. He tells you that you have basically two options. 1.) You can refute your statements and sign a sheet saying so, and take the punishment of being expelled for a week. or 2.) you must withdraw. You ask for 24 hours to consider it. The dean refuses your request and forces you to make a decision. To sign the sheet would mean to adhere to what you believe to be impurities and destruction in the Church. Signing the sheet would violate your conscious and convictions. Therefore you can only go with the second option. By being forced to withdrawal. The consequences of your withdrawal is that you lose several thousand dollars that you worked hard for, and a hiatus in your graduation
progress.
What do you do now?
[edited for public view]
[Edited on 3-19-05 by pastorway]
(payback or reporting?)
