Nigeria campuses has witness a wave of evangelical frenzy across the country as churches has successfully planted a lot of campus fellowship around the country. The rise of religious fellowship on campus has brought a lot of change to student attitude and composure on campus, it has also spread the gospel to lot of youth in various university and has made some student withdraw from the delicate life they were living, and in summary campus fellowship has had a lot of positive impact on campuses.
This bring me to the student that believe they have undergo the evangelical wave on campus and are now term as “Born again”. Sometimes being “born again” on campus makes people term you as an “SU”, this mean you cannot be seen doing things unbeliever do on campus such as examination mal-practice, clubbing, drug abuse, cultism etc. but my question is, is this all the possible sin an individual could get involve in?
People have successful cloth themselves in righteous color on campus and they are exempted from general criticism because of what they publicly portray. In an exam hall a lecturer or a supervisor would confidently walk by an assumed born again and keeps his eye on an assume unbeliever. I have seen cases where born again (either Christian or Muslim) are left alone in an exam hall and they still involve in examination mal-practice and have seen cases while a circular person won’t even involve in examination mal-practice. So now is it right to judge students on their religious believe or their inbuilt morals.
The term born again is often used, abused and misused in our present day campuses, they have made it look more like a fad, as a phenomena that doesn’t last, being born again shouldn’t be of a short period or a cover up for hidden sins and anomalies or what do we say about so called born again couple that court on campuses and judge the little man that was caught cheating during an examination, or the born again that gossip so much and feel disgusted by the careless lady in her class, or the born again that can keep malice with the whole class and still make an alter call in church on the following day or the so called born again that masturbate in secret and disapprove fornication. Yet in this system we are judge by our religious believe and outward appearance this has gradually brought a “born again fad” on campus as most student want to be judge in a delightful manner and not pay attention to what the word born again itself means.


Oladipo Mayowa


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