BYU Sports/Missionary Tool Rant - cougarguard.com — unofficial BYU Cougars / LDS sports, football, basketball forum and message board

OrangeUte · 06-13-2008, 09:47 PM

just a rant:

I stumbled across this blog article while in a pissy mood that my tithing money actually goes to fund BYU tuition, and immediately got into a pissy mood that there are still really people who believe that BYU sports are a missionary tool. I have lived out of the Mormon Bubble and in the mission field for quite a few years, and can absolutely tell you that I have never seen an incident of conversion that had anything to do with BYU athletics or athletes associated with BYU athletics.

There may be some good will or PR to the church from BYU's sports programs, but that is not a missionary tool in the sense that it brings in new converts or has anything to do with the holy ghost bearing witness. I have a hard time buying it when people say that BYU sports is a missionary tool. It is not, in my opinion.

so, poll!

http://gospelcougar.blogspot.com/200...f-tithing.html

View Poll Results: BYU sports - a missionary tool, a PR tool, or neither or both?
Missionary Tool	1	3.57%
PR Tool	4	14.29%
Neither	6	21.43%
Both	17	60.71%
Voters: 28. You may not vote on this poll

06-13-2008, 09:47 PM	#1
OrangeUte Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 748	BYU Sports/Missionary Tool Rant just a rant: I stumbled across this blog article while in a pissy mood that my tithing money actually goes to fund BYU tuition, and immediately got into a pissy mood that there are still really people who believe that BYU sports are a missionary tool. I have lived out of the Mormon Bubble and in the mission field for quite a few years, and can absolutely tell you that I have never seen an incident of conversion that had anything to do with BYU athletics or athletes associated with BYU athletics. There may be some good will or PR to the church from BYU's sports programs, but that is not a missionary tool in the sense that it brings in new converts or has anything to do with the holy ghost bearing witness. I have a hard time buying it when people say that BYU sports is a missionary tool. It is not, in my opinion. so, poll! http://gospelcougar.blogspot.com/200...f-tithing.html