Members of Campus Crusade for Christ were at three locations on the Ball State campus Monday, challenging students to fill up a giant board with their answers to the question, "Is Christianity good or bad for the world?"
Jason Leist, an intern with CRU, said the question was asked to students as part of an outreach to get Ball State students talking about Christianity.
"Myself and some other staff involved with CRU and other students came up with ideas of how we can engage this campus in conversation about who Jesus is," he said. "But we don't want to tell you what we believe, we want you tell us what you think."
The Christian organization had three giant boards filled with student opinions in three locations: the Student Recreation and Wellness Center, Bracken Library and the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.
Sophomore acting major Macie Tonn said she loves art and enjoys when people ask provoking questions.
"As a Christian, I believe what I want to believe, but I don't like to press ideas onto people because when you do that, people push away," she said. "I'm all about freedom and this is freedom of speech."
Stacey Winterrowd, a senior child development major, said she liked seeing all the different opinions on the board and was happy to share her own.
"I said that yes, I think a genuine love of God is needed and I underlined genuine," Winterrowd said. "There is that quote on there from Gandhi that says, ‘I like your Christ but not your Christians. Your Christians are nothing like your Christ.' Basically people aren't living it out. They aren't practicing what we're called to as Christians."
CRU is sponsoring an event at 7 p.m. Feb. 28 in Pruis Hall, which will include a showing of the movie "Collision," a movie Leist said is a neutral movie in which Christopher Hitchens of the "New Atheism" movement debates an evangelical theologian Doug Wilson about the same question CRU is asking Ball State.
"This isn't just come to the event and listen to what the Christians have to say," Leist said. "We really encourage Christians and atheists and agnostics come to answer this question."
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