4Jhe Daily Tar HeelTuesday, October 30, 1 990
Student churchgoers self-motivated to rise earlv SnnrW mnrninos
By MARA LEE
Staff Writer
'God said to attend church pretty
explicitly, and when I look at the reasons
why I go to church, I can see why it's
good," Cord Hamrick said.
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Hamrick, a sophomore music major
from Marietta, Ga., is one of many
college students who wake up early
Sunday morning to attend church.
Though rarer than the sleep-in student,
churchgoers have representation on
campus. These regulars have differing
faiths, backgrounds and motivations.
Some regular attendees, like sopho
more history major Angela Crisp, con
sider themselves only moderately reli
gious. Crisp, a United Methodist from.
Gastonia, said religion wasn't a daily
concern for her. She explained she
wasn't certain what dogma her church
holds, saying, "I'm not typical of most
Methodist youth, or maybe I am, and
that 's why the United Methodist church
is losing members.
"I'm kind of glad that I don't depend
on the church to tell me what I believe
and when to believe it."
In contrast, David Lanning, a junior
Frenchpre-med major from Raleigh,
said, "I consider myself to be really
spiritual. Basically everything I believe
comes from thought formulated on
scripture, not personal opinion. With
out proof, belief is nothing."
Lanning said he was a Christian with
no particular denomination, though his
evangelical church here de-emphasized
details of theology and ritual and un-
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derlined the necessity of taking Christ
as a personal savior.
"Man does not reach salvation
through good works but through belief
in Jesus Christ as the crucified son of
God," Lanning said. "The relationship
between man and the Trinity sets
Christianity apart as the one true faith."
However, spirituality does not nec
essarily equal certainty. Ross Cooper, a
junior religious studies major from
Boone, said, "I'm going through a
transitional period of formulating what
I think is my essential religious aware
ness. I've always been interested in
religious issues.
"Being a religious studies major re
ally makes you come face to face with
how much you accept doctrine. Any
belief worth holding is worth being
challenged.
"You may not intellectually, histori
cally believe in the virgin birth, but still
be able to get symbolic meaning from
that," Cooper said. "Transcendent truth
is far more important than the literal
truth."
Although Cooper hasn't gone to
church in the last month, he most re
cently attended an Eastern Orthodox
church. He said its tenets included a
belief that one can appeal to saints as
intermediaries because the bond is not
broken by death. "Eastern Orthodoxy is
not legalistic. It's a mystery," he said.
Cooper said they didn't stress doc
trines of original sin, a personal savior
or a literal devil. "There's no 'my own
personal phone line to God.'"
Despite their differences in doctrinal
and personal beliefs, churchgoers tended Lanning said, "I have gone to church
to echo the same reasons for attendance, regularly since I was three years old.
Crisp, who only this year began at- and that didn't change when I came
tending a local United Methodist church, here. Up until two or three years ago I
stressed its liberality compared to her went because I really felt I should
home church. "The sermons are very
positive how the Scripture can apply
to my life."
Crisp finds church a break in mate
rial routine. "It's a time where I have to
stop and think a time to slow down,"
she said.
Hamrick agreed that his time in
church was renewing, but also under
lined the sense of community. Hamrick,
a Christian with no particular denomi
now it's desire.
Cooper is a major exception. Raised
liberally Protestant, he went to church
sporadically until high school, when he
became a Catholic. He attended regu
larly as a Catholic, and then later as a
member of the Eastern Orthodox church.
"My mother is religious, but not in a
strict dogmatic kind of way. My father
claims he's an agnostic," he said.
None of the churchgoers felt atten-
nation, sees faith as a central and daily dance made a good Christian, but their
panoinisnte. it s sort ot a communion ideas of morality and Christianity di-
with God of a different sort than when verged there. For instance, Hamrick
you're just saying your prayers," he said the essence of Christianity is to be
said- godlike with assistance. "The help of
"Fellowship it's real neat to be the Holy Spirit an ongoing relation-
around people who have the same re- ship with God is most important," he
lationship to God that you do. At this said.
point it turns like an AA meeting. Hamrick added that morality was
Sometimes even regulars can feel built on loving God, the golden rule and
organized religion isn't helping. Cooper watching out for pride,
said he hadn't been getting much out of Lanning also emphasized the per-
church recently. "Even if I'm unsure sonal relationship with the Trinity, but
what I believe, ideally it should provide as a source of spiritual peace rather than
a sense of connectedness with other as a tool for ethical behavior. "Without
people, with all of creation, with Christ, real life is not possible," he said,
somethingbeyond that gives meaning "There is a need in human beings to be
to all of it," he said. subservient to something. It comes from
Almost all of the attendants were the whole idea of original sin. At the
brought up in religious homes. Crisp, base of it all, there is no such thing as a
for instance, went to church 75 percent good human we are evil, awful, ter-
ot the time until her senior year, when rible and bad by nature
she went half the time, and then her
freshman year she didn't go at all
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Ultimately, Cooper said Christianity
could not be reduced to a bumper sticker
idea. "It's a whole way of life, rather
than any one belief, any one practice."
He did try to put morality in a nutshell,
saying, "The ability to see beyond
yourself is what is necessary before you
can really be a good person to other
people."
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