DWC, at a glance

.....This past week was my first DWC experience. Rather than sum up the week, I'm going to sum up part of the last evening. As I got to know several prominent Cru members, including David "Pimple" Dalrymple, Jessica Irving and the up-and-coming Joel Peabody, a man named Max came up to me and began interrogating me. Max looks about 30-35, balding, and I believe he was born in China. He is an undergraduate at a small Christian college 30 minutes south of Dallas. I'm not even sure why he was with the UT group, but the first day, shortly after Stewman informed me I was a leader, I met Max.

.....Flash forward to the last night, and I find myself being asked difficult questions about faith, denominations, non-Christians and other matters. I'm not sure why he saw me as an authority figure, but during the course of the hour and a half conversation, he alluded to doing some research about my father and Dallas Seminary. I can only assume he made the conclusion that I, being his team leader and having my father for my . . . father . . . crap . . .anyway, because of these reasons, I suspect that's why he came to me.

.....So, as natural in conversation, we started with the easy topic of predestination vs. free will, or, as Max put it, Calvinism vs. Armenianism. Soon, there followed questions of assurance of salvation, and after that he asked me if I believed that if someone continually committed a sin, if they were truly saved. I told him I believed that if someone is truly saved, then there is nothing they can do, no matter how many times they do it, that will separate them from God. Otherwise, Jesus did not die for ALL our sins, which is pure heresy. So, he asked me how to deal with a sin that continues to trip you up. Through prior knowledge and one of the workshops taught that week by Nick DeCola, "Will I Ever be Free?," in which he talked about how to deal with sins that continue to plague us, I told Max he should continually pray about it, but also embrace fellowship and look for an accountability partner.

.....He then proceeded to tell me how he felt like he couldn't tell anyone at his school, because he was afraid they would report him. He said if anyone is reported or caught for certain sins (he never told me exactly what, but used pornography as an example), they get fined (he said $300), and then after a second occurrence you get expelled. What's wrong with Christians today?

.....Don't get me wrong, there are definitely some things that should get you kicked out of school, but most of those are covered by Johnny Law. So, if Johnny Law intervenes, let there be expulsion.

.....I know this (meaning the extreme punishment) isn't normality with all Christians (especially those at WitBrev), but where did we get the audacity to condemn our fellow, equally fallen man?