I saw this billboard in the Tulsa Airport and it took me back to my early misperceptions of Oral Roberts University. As a child growing up in this part of Oklahoma, I didn’t understand what the whole person idea meant and even took it to mean that disabled persons were not admitted. This of course is not true, but it’s interesting how these misconceptions of others persists in various forms. The idea of the Whole Person is a good one, and it seems ORU was ahead of its time in pursuing a discipleship that integrates body and soul, health, life, mind. And to define the kind of student ORU is trying to produce, as in these five areas on the billboard, is noble and good. I feel much better and positive about ORU since the changing of the guard with new board members and president.
Whole Person
Greg Taylor
My wife, Jill, and I have three children: Ashley, Anna, and Jacob. We live in Broken Arrow and I preach for The Journey: a New Generation Church of Christ in Tulsa (www.thejourneychurch.faith). I have a B.A. in Journalism and an M.Div. from Harding School of Theology in Memphis, Tennessee. Before coming to Tulsa, we lived in Nashville, Tennessee four years, where I worked with The Zoe Group and Wineskins Magazine. From 1994-2001 we lived in Jinja, Uganda, where we worked with a church planting team, an experience that forever changed our lives. With Randy Harris, I co-authored Living Jesus: Doing What Jesus Says in the Sermon on the Mount and you can learn about other books I've written at my web site, www.gregtaylor.org. My most recent book co-authored with Randy is Daring Faith: Meeting Jesus in the Book of John.
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