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SCOTTSDALE — Between 100 and 200 Auburn University student were baptized after attending a mass worship service where the preaching focused heavily on abstinence and the need to refrain from sexual immorality.
This isn’t just a good thing for the spiritual grounding of America’s youth. This is a good thing for the entire nation — the entire future of God-given individual liberties.
In a culture where college campuses have turned into breeding grounds for all kinds of ungodly activities, spewing forth soon-to-be leaders with rot for brains and wickedness as a moral compass, Auburn is a spark of light. And it’s a spark lit from a very Gideon-like flame, as well.
From five girls, grew this mass event.
From Gideon’s small handful of God-chosen men came an army to conquer the Israelites’ massive number of enemies.
From WSFA 12, local Auburn news: “This all started because of a worship event. It is called Unite Auburn. The woman behind the event, Tonya Prewett, said it began with just five girls meeting in the arena each week to pray, ‘which grew to 200 students. That caught the eye of local ministries who said we want to get behind this, we want to see this turn into something much bigger,’ Prewett said.”
And so it did.
At Auburn, about 5,000 attended the recent worship gathering at Neville Arena. Of that, between 100 and 200 got baptized in the campus pond — again, because of a spark lit by just a couple of people.
“When [the worship service] was ending, one student wanted to be baptized,” WSFA 12 went on.
But there wasn’t a tub of water nearby; there wasn’t a baptismal tank at the service. So the student, along with hundreds of others, walked to the lake at Auburn’s Red Barn. A mass baptism began.
And now the idea is to spread the Unite Auburn worship concept to other college campuses.
God is alive.
Even on secular college campuses, God is alive and well.
In February, a service at Asbury University in Kentucky turned into a nonstop prayer event that caught the attention of national media, ultimately driving students from other states came to join the worship. Astonishing — yes. But still, Asbury is a Christian college.
It’s all the more inspirational when the prayer and worship and calls to repentance and open embrace of Christ and public baptisms take place on colleges not exactly known for a Bible-believing basis.
But God is alive.
Even on secular college campuses, God is alive and well and going about His business.
On February 29, 2024, the Collegiate Day of Prayer is set for 4,196 campuses across America, with the expected participation of 6,673 campus ministries and churches and prayer warriors.
America is not lost. Not yet.
The signs of an awakened America are everywhere.
If the next generation of American leaders are taught to submit to a higher authority, then the next generation of American leaders will be in the proper mindset to keep government limited — and America will have a chance to keep God-given individual liberties, the basis of American Exceptionalism, intact. God is not dead. And apparently, happily, neither is America.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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