I do wonder about the "productiveness" of these missions, even from a Christian perspective. As you know if you heard the same dire warnings as I did from StAG's leavers' talk, most student evangelicals do not remain Christians for long after leaving university. Perhaps they are useful as they continue to drum into the students a fear of hell which hopefully will stop them from leaving the church or thinking about what they are being told. When I stopped being a Christian although I had no reason to believe that Christianity was true I was terrified of going to hell - the idea of how awful it is gets drummed into you so deeply that fear can motivate you into going to church. Someone who left the CU at Derby said to me a few months ago that they were amazed that I was no longer a Christian, when I asked why they said that they didn't understand why I would want to go to hell! This also seemed to be a core reason for them being a Christian themselves.
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Re: This year's CICCU Main Event - DIRECTION
Date: 2005-02-06 04:06 pm (UTC)Perhaps they are useful as they continue to drum into the students a fear of hell which hopefully will stop them from leaving the church or thinking about what they are being told. When I stopped being a Christian although I had no reason to believe that Christianity was true I was terrified of going to hell - the idea of how awful it is gets drummed into you so deeply that fear can motivate you into going to church. Someone who left the CU at Derby said to me a few months ago that they were amazed that I was no longer a Christian, when I asked why they said that they didn't understand why I would want to go to hell! This also seemed to be a core reason for them being a Christian themselves.