On the not so bright side...

So I realized that I've shared a lot about how awesome everything is, but haven't talked much about what it's actually like on campus. So what is it like here in a great, big, secular setting? Well, let me share!

First of all, there's a lot of immorality. I guess what's saddest is that it's really ENCOURAGED immorality, as if college students are a bunch of animals that are destined to hook up and can't control themselves. At one of the opening campus-wide events back in August, there was a table giving away free condoms. Great, thanks people! Why don't you just tell all these students to go and flush their physical and emotional well-being down the toilet?

At the same time, this forces students to make a choice. I've had a lot of really good conversations with students about chastity and why it's important. We had an entire night for women talking about modesty and why it's important, using letters from guys who loved them as sisters in Christ and wanted to respect and protect them. This allowed many of the women here to understand why they should save themselves for their future spouse, and to really WANT to do this.

Second of all, there is a definite gay-agenda that's continually advocated. At this same beginning of the semester event mentioned above, there was a HUGE stand promoting the legalization of same-sex marriage. This same agenda is promoted in the classroom. One of the students that I'm mentoring had a "man" come and speak to them about how she always "knew" that her body did not reflect what she was in her head, so she had all the necessary surgery done to make herself a male. Traumatizing class? Um, yeah...

At the same time, AWESOME opportunity to have a GREAT conversation about human sexuality and how it is a part of our very essence as human persons, as well as why it is a gift that should not be rejected as if it were instead some sort of a curse.

So even though there are a lot of negative activities promoted here at UNL which are ultimately extremely harmful to the moral, physical, and emotional well-being of the human person, the prominence of these activities forces a lot students to be educated about these realities and come to understand the truth. Ultimately, we are called to love the sinner yet hate the sin. When a "man" comes to talk to your class about how Christians tell her that she's going to hell, there is a good opportunity to put what you preach into practice.

God bless!