Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prayer in general is an integral part of the Christian's life and can range from the purely material financial requests to vast cosmic thoughts, or simply to praising and thanking God. Crist says prayer and Bible reading are the highest priorities in his everyday life...
Besides talking to their friends about Christ, Harvard Christians do a great deal of praying to ask God to show their friends the right way. They pray for non-Christians by name in small discipleship groups, and often have lists of those they are particularly concerned to help. Nelia Worsley '79 sent a letter over the summer to fellow Winthrop House Christians saying "What the Lord's been teaching me lately" is that they should be more diligent in praying for non-Christians, "silently lift up" people at meals through prayer, and make it clear through their attitudes and actions...
...still runs into difficulties with some Catholic dogma. Recently, she said, she tried to organize a Bible study group at the Catholic Student Center, where she is very active. The idea met with little enthusiasm, she said, because of the Catholic reliance on authorities mediating for the layman with God. The idea of a student-organized Bible study group was too Protestant to be acceptable to a Catholic group...
...found it a problem at Harvard to avoid the kind of competitive trap students get into, a situation not reconcilable with a lifestyle whose highest priority is prayer and Bible study. Pierce mentions the "flagrant immorality" at Harvard that he often finds hard to take. All agree, however, that God wants Christians to live in the world, and that the Christians' lot is not meant to be an easy one anywhere...
Those who are not "born again" Christians often associate fundamentalism with belief in unusual happenings, such as the so-called speaking in tongues. This is justified to some extent. Donovan believes she has "spoken in tongues," that is, she has received the gift of the Holy Spirit from God and has spoken in an unrecognizable language of praise. This experience happened to her at the end of her junior year at Harvard, she says. "You feel it welling up inside of you. God is giving you perfect words to say. It's astoundingly beautiful...