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RE: MBU President urges compassion, love
MBU President urges compassion, love
January 19, 2007
Are you a good neighbor?
Dr. Alton Lacey, president of MBU, speaks Jan. 18 at the biannual President's Convocation
That was the overarching question asked by Dr. Alton Lacey, president of Missouri Baptist University, Jan. 18 at the University’s biannual President’s Convocation.
Using perhaps the most notable illustration of universal compassion, Lacey urged MBU’s diverse student body to help one another by relaying the Parable of the Good Samaritan.
“The Samaritan was enriched and empowered by an act of love,” Lacey said. “He exemplifies what C.S. Lewis calls gift love, that love that goes out to another without expectation of receiving anything in return. The Samaritan chose to respond to his suffering in such a way that it opened up the best in him rather than the worst. The story reminds us that in every situation we humans have a choice, and we can use that gift of freedom to become more human rather than less.”
Many MBU students are apparently heeding Lacey’s call.
A group of 30 MBU students, who attended the Passion 07 Conference in Atlanta, Ga. over Christmas break, collectively purchased ten bricks for a new community center in Northern Iraq that will provide multiple opportunities to impact the lives of thousands of Kurdish people. Many MBU students also committed to pray for the Kurds for one year. In addition, members of the group paid for the Bible to be translated for the Rikou people in Southeast Asia.
The Passion Conference is a four-day event that draws tens of thousands of college-aged student for worship, teaching and prayer.
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