What Did God Say?

According to many students Missions Conference 2011lit fires, and  set Biola ablaze with a passion for being globally aware. Biola had over 100 missions organizations from around the globe come and set up information booths, talk with students, and overall make sure that here on campus we are doing our part to 'impact the world for Christ'. Although it may be easy to assume that everyone here on campus would take advantage of the frequent free events like Missions Conference, that is not the case. There are some students who decided not to go, and all of their reasons are diverse in number.

"I didn't have to go, so I didn't. I've gone in years past, and I think it makes a positive impact on campus," said Talbot grad student Andrew Sarchet.

Although some students did not attend, most students who did said that on Thursday night at the last main session, their lives were definitely impacted by how God spoke into their lives.

"God worked in many ways on Thursday night for me. God did different things for different people. He built and strengthened friendships and community in my own life; keeping each other accountable and in  prayer on  a daily basis, " said junior Christian Ministries major Alyssa Jacobs.

There is only one way to keep everyone ablaze, and according to Alison Bognda that is to stop living in our sinful past.

"We need to cultivate more a community in which we can continually stay in a place of openness. We constantly need to be open to forgiveness so that we can heal. Its been a struggle on this campus to say 'I'm fine.' when your really hurting. We had a speaker that walked in obedience and out of that obedience he was able to call us out on things that we really needed to hear. He called out lust and unbeleif. These are things we deal with on campus that we need to come to terms with. We need to hear the Lord and speak honestly. It was just the right atmosphere. We need to stop living in the shame of our past.