"This is Not a Day Care." Oh SNAP!

[Turtle]

Dr. Everett Piper, the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University finally had enough with everyone trying so hard to be offended.

"This is not a day care. This is a university!" is how he put it. Basically, he told his university students to grow up, grow a pair, suck it up, and deal with it.


Oklahoma Wesleyan is, not surprisingly, a Christian university, a liberal arts school. After a 1 Corinthians sermon on love, one of the students went up to the preacher to express his displeasure at being offended by the sermon, because he felt humiliated and victimized because he failed to love more than he does, or some such nonsense. The president of the university heard about it, asked to see the sermon to see what might have offended this poor student, and didn't find anything. So, Dr. Piper just went off on this student, and on college students and faculty and staff all over the country.

This past week, I actually had a student come forward after a university chapel service and complain because he felt “victimized” by a sermon on the topic of 1 Corinthians 13. It appears that this young scholar felt offended because a homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love! In his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel uncomfortable.

I’m not making this up. Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic! Any time their feelings are hurt, they are the victims! Anyone who dares challenge them and, thus, makes them “feel bad” about themselves, is a “hater,” a “bigot,” an “oppressor,” and a “victimizer.”

I have a message for this young man and all others who care to listen. That feeling of discomfort you have after listening to a sermon is called a conscience! An altar call is supposed to make you feel bad! It is supposed to make you feel guilty! The goal of many a good sermon is to get you to confess your sins—not coddle you in your selfishness. The primary objective of the Church and the Christian faith is your confession, not your self-actualization!

If you want the chaplain to tell you you’re a victim rather than tell you that you need virtue, this may not be the university you’re looking for. If you want to complain about a sermon that makes you feel less than loving for not showing love, this might be the wrong place.

If you’re more interested in playing the “hater” card than you are in confessing your own hate; if you want to arrogantly lecture, rather than humbly learn; if you don’t want to feel guilt in your soul when you are guilty of sin; if you want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn’t one of them.

At OKWU, we teach you to be selfless rather than self-centered. We are more interested in you practicing personal forgiveness than political revenge. We want you to model interpersonal reconciliation rather than foment personal conflict. We believe the content of your character is more important than the color of your skin. We don’t believe that you have been victimized every time you feel guilty and we don’t issue “trigger warnings” before altar calls.

Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a “safe place”, but rather, a place to learn: to learn that life isn’t about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that’s wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that’s wrong with them. This is a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up!

This is not a day care. This is a university!

"...but rather, a place to learn: to learn that life isn't about you..."

That cracks me up.

We've come a long way from Dr Martin Luther King, Jr to now, having to have a white university president explain to his students, “we care about the content of your character not the color of your skin.”

That's a Holy Crap, Batman! Moment, right there.

 

[xmudman]

This post needs not a "like" button, but an "absolutely freakin' love it" button!

 

[Moot]

This post needs not a "like" button, but an "absolutely freakin' love it" button!

 

[Moot]

It is refreshing to see people speak without fear of being politically incorrect. That's what I like about Donald Trump. The only thing I like about Donald Trump.

 

[davekc]

It is refreshing to see people speak without fear of being politically incorrect. That's what I like about Donald Trump. The only thing I like about Donald Trump.

Yep. I heard "kill terrorist families" and "lets bring back waterboarding". What's not to love. lol

 

[cheri1122]

And right now the Supreme Court is working on a case filed by 2 people in Texas who feel their vote is 'diluted' by the idea of "one person, one vote".