Did you know that "Jackass: The Movie" made about $65,000,000 in 11 weeks at the box office? 65 million! What kind of generation spends 65 million dollars in less than 3 months to see people snorting wasabi sauce and eating urine-soaked snow cones? A recent Barna poll found that the Mosaic generation (those born between 1984 and 2002) is the least likely age group to pray to God in any given week. This is simply a reflection of the ever-increasing belief that when all is said and done, there is no real purpose or ultimate meaning in life. Nothing to live for. Nothing to die for. As a result, we've idolized and glamorized anything that can effectively waste our time. An attitude of meaninglessness permeates everything from our spiritual outlook, to our entertainment, to our interaction with others. Only God could count the millions and millions of hours that are spent on TV, Internet, movies, video games, and the myriad other ultimately meaningless activities in which college students often invest their time.

Our battle cry is one that calls students to rise up, recognize that they were created for a reason, and live out the high calling that God has placed on each of their lives. For a culture that doubts any type of absolutes, this is a call to lay down your "intellectual" justifications for living without God, and to submit to the one who will judge the world by absolute standards. For a culture bound to lust and pornography*, this is a call to throw aside the sin that so easily entangles, and to live in the freedom that Christ has prepared for you. For a culture in which everyone seems to be "Christian" but so few willing to be Christ-like*, this is a call to either live the life or stop naming the name. "Let everyone that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity" (2 Tim. 2:19). We are calling the campus to rise up and live for God with everything they have. His kingdom is our eternal vision, compromise is our eternal enemy, and Christ is our eternal passion.