Summit Ministries

By Ellen Prater

Today at the Summit, our day started off with a nice breakfast of quiche, cereal, and bagels. Yum! After making sure our rooms were very clean, we started off the academic part of our day with the pledge of allegiance to the American and Christian flags and singing the first verse of Amazing Grace. Then Dr. Noebel gave his daily Bible hour. His verse of the day was Proverbs 23:23. Dr. Doug Groothuis was our next speaker and supposedly it was his first time speaking at the Summit. He spoke on "Confronting the New Age: Or, Why Oprah is Wrong?" Then he spoke on "Intelligent Design: Finding the Signature of God in Nature". One proof of an intelligent designer of the universe and everything in it is the Bacterial Flagellum. Look it up! It is an amazing microscopic "machine" located in cells.

We took our class picture today during the morning break and then Dr. Groothuis spoke to us about "Truth Decay: Defending Objective Truth in the Postmodern World."

After our good lunch of deep dish pizza and salad, Dr. Darrell Furgason finished the second part of his lecture on Islam that he started yesterday. What a very relevant topic in our world today!

Extra-curricular activities filled the free time for some today. Many students signed up for paintball or horseback riding. The rest of us relaxed and spent time either catching up on sleep, reading, spending time with friends, or walking around the very interesting and quaint town of Manitou Springs (to name some of the fun things that we can do out of class).

For dinner, we had chicken with bacon and avocado, rice, lettuce, and vegetables. (For any concerned parents: Summit Ministries feeds their students very well!) During dinner, those who had gone paint balling arrived and some had welts and slight injuries to show off.

One of my favorite parts of the day is open forum with one of the speakers on the hotel porch. Tonight we asked questions of Dr. Groothuis.

During praise and worship, we sang some songs in different languages! Then Dr. Noebel gave his daily lecture, "Worldviews in Collision" where he proved the world is made up of six different worldviews. The day ended with a very interesting movie about Marxism and Leninism. All in all, today was another great day at the Summit. I look forward to deepening relationships, learning more about the world around me, and strengthening my faith in the coming final week of Session 7.