Dancing. Sports. Caffeine. Rock and roll. Food and drink. The college
campus is a kind of microcosm of the flashpoints we face “in the real
world,” just with the volume turned way up. And lots of video games.
For over a decade, this has been the everyday life and ministry context for Matt Reagan,
Campus Outreach director at the University of Minnesota and elder at
Bethlehem Baptist Church. Into such potentially contrasting
environments, he has sought to bring an old, old story with all its
biblical textures and hues and the mind-defying life-change it boasts.
It’s emphatically not an easy day-to-day parish for gospel ministry, but
some love it. Matt does.
Over the years of laboring to press the gospel deeply into students
of increasingly postmodern orientation and sensibilities, Matt has
discovered that one of the most important topics to tackle with freshman
collegiates and new believers is the so-called “sacred-secular divide.”
We all participate in this to certain degrees, and the lessons are
relevant far beyond the college campus and this perhaps strangest of
life’s seasons. It quickly gets us into realities as central as our
hearts and as important as the realization that God is not boring.
With such application far beyond the college campus in view, we sat
down with Matt to have him explain what is this sacred-secular divide,
and how Christian theology and the biblical gospel takes it head on. Continue at David Mathis
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