BCM responds to questions about God
Aaron Gotter
Issue date: 3/5/10 Section: Campus
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"We did love-hate because we wanted to get the thoughts and opinions of the campus on a variety of different topics," said Kendal Danford, campus minister of the BCM.
Danford said that they were particularly interested in what people had to say about Christianity and religion, among other things. He said that the BCM wanted to know what people thought so that they could talk to people about it.
"We wanted to take what the students said they hated about Christianity and religion and apologize on behalf of other Christians and believers," Danford said.
The BCM started love-hate at the beginning of February by placing comment boards in high traffic areas around the campus. Some of the topics that were included on the boards were work, Christianity, friends and religion. Each board had two columns on it; the love column was for writing what was liked about the subject, and the hate column was for what was disliked about the subject.
On Feb. 9, about a week after the comment boards were placed around campus, the BCM invited students to view the boards on display in the UC. They wanted students to read the apologies that the BCM wrote for all negative comments that were written relating to Christianity or religion.
"We were trying to genuinely apologize for what Christians have done to other people that were not right," Danford said. "The stuff that Christians have done wrong doesn't represent Jesus very well, so we are saying that we are sorry."
The UC was crowded at the beginning of the event as students enjoyed the free snacks and beverages that were provided by the BCM. People were encouraged to walk around while they ate, so they could read everything that was written on the boards. The environment was full of excitement and anticipation despite the harsh words that were written on the dividers.
When everyone in the UC was asked to sit down so that worship could start, the 200 chairs that the BCM provided were not enough.
Worship started with an energetic percussion show that featured trash cans, drumsticks and musical cups. The worship band joined in toward the end of the trashcan banging and delivered loud upbeat songs to the crowd.
Video feed was played in between the worship songs of students saying how sorry they were for what Christians have done to misrepresent Christ.
After the conclusion of worship, Lance Wright, the BCM director at SC State University, stepped up to preach to the crowd about the love of God. He told his audience that Jesus loved them so much that he died to pay their debt for sin. He ended his speech with emphasis on the idea of restoring a personal relationship with God.
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