I don't know about you, but there are some questions that always seem to bug me that I don't have the answers to. One of these questions we started talking about Monday night at Campus Life. The question was asked, "Where did we come from?" And more importantly, "Why does it matter?" To get students in the mindset the beginning scene of Expelled featuring Ben Stein was played. Ben Stein is a well known scientist and public speaker but is also a minority within his profession. Ben Stein believes in intelligent design. The small group discussions picked apart evolution and intelligent design in order for students to establish their true opinions.

While we may debate evolution or creation, consider this idea by Helmut Thielicke, "history is in many ways like a good play. When going to a play one generally asks certain questions such as who wrote the play, who is the hero, who is the villain, and what is the plot? Upon answering these questions we are able to make sense of and enter into the story in a meaningful way. Likewise, each day people are born onto the stage of history where they will say their lines and act out their part without any concept of who the Author of life is, what great cosmic struggle they find themselves in, who the Hero and Villain are, or how they relate to the plot of which they are a part. And, apart from revelation we are left with meaningless lives in which we seek to either do something significant to be a hero, or lose hope and simply accept that we are villains and live amidst that brutally despairing truth."

What part do you play in the story? Why doest it matter? Come back this Monday to tackle the next big life question of "Why are we here?"