The Assembly:

It is pretty much a given what I am going to be sharing with you in this Blog because most of you are students at Bethany Bible College. However, for the viewers at home and for my purposes, I intend to rant on this topic with extreme prejudice.

I love my school and I love to know that is going on. However, when it is something that you have to be carried to, kicking and screaming, it's not worth it. Granted, no one literally kicks and screams, but there is the obvious complaining.

The highest hope for students on such days is that they "miss the signs" or "don't hear a word about it". I tried that approach. Not today, but have in the past. I think it was the last assembly that we had, I really had no clue that it was going on... until someone was being dragged down the hall... you guessed it... kicking and screaming... I kinda shrugged it off thinking that they were just moody about class. That is, until about 4 o'clock I get a knock on the door...

*Knock, knock, knock*

"Hey there guys."

It's Brewer... which I must say is the raddest Dorm parent (resident director) that I could ask for. At this point, Brad and I were in the middle of a game of Halo.

"You know that there is a campus assembly today?" Dumbfounded I return the question, "What time does it start at?" "Oh, about 20 minutes ago." Crap. Caught red handed... or could I even say red handed because there was no former knowledge of the presence of an assembly.

Today's assemble was SUPPOSED (I give this word all caps to accentuate the intensity of what was supposed to happen) address issues regarding the latest BBC dismissals. Not that I was in for the gossip, I just would have liked one of our dear members of the disciplinary committee to have the guts to stand up and admit that as a student body and a campus (faculty included) we have failed to keep some of our brothers and sisters in spiritual accountability. I know that these issues are personal choices, but we must recognize our responsibility as Christians and students that we have to one another. A good friend of mine once said, "A friend is a friend when you need one.... and a jerk when you need one too." Maybe we need to cut the crap of meetings, be "jerks", and confront one another instead of letting each other stumble because of "uncomfortable" confrontations.