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When I chose to attend Bob Jones University I wasn’t sure that it was right for me.  I did not agree with Calvanistic Doctrine.  I did not like some of the rules that were put upon the students.  And I had been the homebody that didn’t go off to Boy’s State like his brother.

However, I blended right in.  I was able to become pseudo-popular… Popular in my own circles.

It was here that God first got a hold of me.  It was my second semester there, and I had a roommate that had just been saved and was on fire for the Lord.  He had come to BJU to be a evangelist.  If you think I’m passionate about what I believe, this guy would get in your face, and he did loading for RPS.  He could probably bench press two or three of me.

It was one night in our nightly devotional time where he looked straight at me and my roommate and challenged us on our faith.  Here I was, going to a Christian University, but I wasn’t really doing anything for the Lord.  That, coupled with my first review on campus where the review showed I wasn’t doing any personal devotions.

Here I was, the guy that was so sure of himself and his faith in high school, that was always doing the right thing, and it sunk in.  It was all about me.  It was then that I found an extension ministry– and stuck to it.  I started a daily devotional study and I began to absorb what I was being taught.

Fast forward to me as a Senior.  I have a lot of Bible training, and the ability to choose.  My skills have landed me an interview on campus staff doing computer work for them1  Or I could return to my home town, to my home church, to try to make a difference.

I chose my hometown.  I knew that I wanted to use what God had given me to reach those that were in my home, to try to help cut through some of the apathy I believed that I saw.  So, I got a job with the company my father worked for2 and headed home.

1. My GPA was nothing to boast about, but I was a lab monitor and placed 5th in the first computer science programming contest I entered– and 1st the second time.
2. I interviewed over the phone, since the position was essentially created for me

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