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Friday, January 26, 2002
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Volume 5 No.
FCA speaker asks ‘What really matters?’
Margaret O'Driscoll
Pilot design editor
“Imagine what your campus would
look like if just 30 students decided to
live authentic, real, genuine lives.
Imagine what God could do if these stu
dents were radically sold out for
Christ.”
These were the challenging words
spoken by Dirk Helmling, guest speak
er at FCA, Thursday night in Dover
Chapel. During his message to approxi
mately 50 students, Helmling encour
aged listeners to dig deeper into their
relationships with Christ, selling out for
Him in a way that
will bear permanent
fruit.
“Most students
have a clouded vision
of what really matters
in this life; they have
lost focus,” said
Helmling.
According to
Helmling, the focus of most students
today is on appearance and approval
from friends.
“Does it really matter if you are
most popular on your campus, or wear
the designer clothes, or get voted most
likely to succeed?” he said. “When your
day comes to an end, will all the earthly
things matter?”
Helmling referred to Matthew 16;
26, which asks, “What good will it be
for a man if he gains the whole world,
yet forfeits his soul?”
In this, he pointed to what he said
really matters to Christ-the condition
of one's heart and how one lives his or
her life.
Helmling also stated his conviction
that who a person honestly believes
Christ to be is what should matter most.
“We honor Him with our lips, but
our heart is far from it,” said Helmling.
The second thing that Helmling said
matters to Christ is that His followers
allow themselves to be used by Him.
What one does with Christ, said
Helming, is just as important as know
ing who He is.
“A label means nothing without a
lifestyle that backs
it,” Helmling chal
lenged. He refer
enced James 2:17 as
an adequate summa
ry of this second
point, “Faith by
Dirk Helmling itself, if it is not
accompanied by
action, is dead.”
'We honor Him
with our lips, but
our heart is far
from it”
Helmling led students to look at II
Corinthians 5:1, which states that once a
person resides in Christ, the former self
is put off and "a new creation" takes
over. He continued by saying that many
Christians possess the head knowledge
of Christ but never experience the rela
tionship.
“If it is possible to identify what is
keeping oneself from being sold out for
Jesus, tell someone; be vulnerable; be
accountable,” said Helmling. “It’s costly
to sell out for Christ; it gets lonely when
people aren’t as zealous as you are.”
Photo by Tara Hostetler
Freshmen Jeremy Davis and Beth Hester spend time with Dirk Helmling after the FCA meeting to talk
Several students at the FCA meet
ing shared their feelings and opinions
on what keeps people from being sold
out.
“Activities that students are
involved in and a lack of knowledge is
part of the problem,” said sophomore
Carrie Hatfield.
“Life gets in the way sometimes.
Getting tied down to too much prevents
a person from selling out totally to
Christ,” said Divinity School student
Jason Blanton.
Helmling noted that complacency
as well as peer pressure are two of the
hardest temptations that teenagers and
students must face today. To conclude,
he challenged students to remember
what really matters: "It’s costly, but the
benefit will be an abundance of stored
up treasures in heaven."
Helmling is the founder and direc
tor of 29.11 Ministries. Helmling’s web
page can be accessed at www.2911.org.
Late-night prowlers invade girls’ residence hall
Erin Boyd
Pilot co-editor
Campus Police arrested
Ryan White early Monday
morning on a charge of
"resist,obstruct and delay" after
he and Paul Anselmo were
reported leaving Stroup resi
dence hall at approximately
1:15 a.m.
White and Anselmo are
both students at Limestone
College in Gaffney, S.C.
Limestone has been contacted
about the incident and is han
dling further discipline of the
students.
The men entered the
women's residence hall through
the front door of the building.
"The door was locked,"
said Officer David Wacaster,
"But the men were able to pull
it loose and gain entry."
The men told two Stroup
residents they were looking for
a female Gardner-Webb stu
dent they had met at a club.
"They were standing out in
the hallway, looking into the
bathroom," said one resident.
"When we told them we
were about to do our laundry.
they asked if we would wash
their pants for them," she said.
After the men left the hall,
the women contacted their RA,
who immediately called
Campus Police.
Campus Police met the
men coming out of Stroup.
Officer Matt Dunker charged
White with "resist, obstruct and
delay" because he was "unco
operative" and "lied to police,"
said Wacaster.
Wacaster explained that
under law these behaviors con
stitute arrest because they delay
the investigation.
Wacaster noted that
Anselmo was cooperative and
truthful to police.
After the arrest. White was
taken to the Cleveland County
Detention Center, where he
was confined under a $500
bond. Anselmo was escorted
off-campus.
Any time a security inci
dent occurs, said Wacaster,
Campus Police reevaluates all
security procedures.
Wacaster verified that,
after the incident, the Physical
Plant was notified and the front
door of Stroup was repaired the
following day.
To Wacaster's knowledge,
Monday's arrest was the first
incident of this nature on the
Gardner-Webb campus.
In light of this incident,
Wacaster recommended that
GWU students be observant.
"We're a small school," he
said. "Students can recognize
who goes to school here and
who doesn't."
Wacaster also recommends
students always lock their
doors and report damaged
doors to the Physical Plant
immediately.