10 DUling OUf stay as students, we made good use of our surroundings to start anew spiritually. Evangelists proclaimed the gospel from the pulpit while friends shared their Christianity on a personal level, and as a result, a number experienced spiritual new beginnings. The atmosphere was one in which we could remove ourselves for a time from " life in the fast lane" and sort through our thoughts and feelings. We had the opportunity to develop a faith of our own. While numerous organized religious activities abounded - the Student Association sponsored a Labor Day weekend all-school retreat to Camp Wyldewood , the World Evangelism Forum and Timothy Club brought in speakers from each corner of the earth, evangelist Jim McGuiggan spoke on practical Christianity at a January on-campus retreat, Thanksinging and Life Sessions were held frequently and the form of small group fellowship called the devotional was ubiquitous to the campus. However, just because a religious activity existed did not make it worthwhile to all , and the most important spiritual advances came through wrestling with ourselves about the issues that affected our faith . For some of those immersed in the spiritual mainstream, there was the ever-present tendency to fall into a pattern of equating involvement in religious activities as Christianity itself. Falling in stride with the crowd led to the promulgation of an ineffectual faith that consisted of the outward trappings of religious experience. NEW BEGINNINGS: Our spiritual ones were tempered by the knowledge that they could become hollow unless they were developed individually. f,;1 ~ RIGHT: BASKING in September sun, Tim King and Gwynne Bormann forego the Stephens lobby and visit on the dorm's front steps . A New Beginning
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