After a week of students walking around campus dressed in ambiguous green shirts, more than 500 students gathered Thursday night in the Cox Communication Center for Student Athletes to see if they really did agree with Critter.Chris Cook, better known to his friends as Critter, spoke to the congregation for about 20 minutes about his personal relationship with Jesus. Critter, management senior, is a normal University student who says his life was changed by Jesus. The Refuge, the collegiate ministry of the Chapel on Campus, asked to speak.”He’s a man of integrity and a man of character,” Clary said. “But he’s just a normal student, and that’s really what we want to portray tonight.”The Refuge gave away about 500 green T-shirts over the past two weeks, with “I Agree With Critter” written across the front. When asked what the phrase meant, the green-shirted students informed others on campus about the event. “LSU gets a reputation as a party school, but there are Christians who can party, too,” said Josh LaRavia, college pastor at the Chapel on the Campus. “There are a lot of people here who are down with Christ.”When Critter took the stage, he spoke about some of the experiences in his life which had brought him to Jesus. Critter said the most important event in his life happened during a trip to a church camp in Florida when he was young. He said the camp played a clip of a movie depicting Jesus’ execution which moved him to tears.Critter finished his sermon with a call to students to seek out answers in their lives, even if they did not believe everything he had said.”When I came to LSU and I was still seeking, the biggest help was other people seeking, too,” Critter said. “At least be seeking, that’s all I’m asking.”——Contact Adam Duvernay at [email protected]
Hundreds gather to listen to Critter
March 12, 2009