Campus Impact

This past Sunday we got to take a look at a talk that Louie Giglio gave on the “How Great Is Our God” tour with Chris Tomlin.  Louie is the leader of the Passion movement which has encouraged and equipped college students for over a decade.  There is no doubt that Louie is a gifted teacher that has made sense of and included the discoveries of science as worship of our Creator.

Because of a couple inquiries I thought that you might like to know where you can watch more messages, or get the talk that we watched this past Sunday if you are so inclined.  I thought that it would be beneficial to give you some links where you could see some more of his talks if you wished to hear more from him.

www.268generation.com - the Passion website

Enjoy your day today.

I’ve been working through a Leadership Workbook this semester that really has me thinking about what God is doing and wants to do on the college campuses in Lincoln.  The first chapter is about why God calls young people to lead.  In my mind young people equate to college students, I believe God wants to use college students to change the world!!

Anyway, one of the reasons Tim Elmore gives in the workbook is that every generation of Christ followers must reach their own generation for Christ.  “Christianity is always one generation away from extinction.  No one can reach my generation as effectively as I can.  Each time God raises up a new generation of disciples (Christ followers), He commissions them to reach their own generation.”

Elmore goes on to talk about how many movements down through history have been led by young people and the fact that many of these movements were started by a small group of people…..in fact in many of these movements God used 1% of the population to make a drastic change in the entire population.

Some examples of this in history:

The Haystack Movement - The Haystack movement began when students were on their way to a church meeting one night.  It began to rain, and they took cover under a haystack.  When the thunderstorm grew worse, they decided to hold their own prayer meeting-and out of that meeting came a movement of missionaries that changed the world at that time.

The Cambridge Seven - Less than 150 years ago, in the 1860s, seven students at Cambridge University in England decided to meet together to pray and discuss the needs of the world around them.  They were especially burdened by China.  From those seven students came a movement of workers that impacted China by the end of the nineteenth century.

The Student Volunteer Movement - At the end of the 19th century, Christians felt an urgency to finish the task of world evangelism.  Men like John Mott and Dwight Moody traveled around to college campuses compelling students to surrender their lives to thecause ofthe Great Commission.  It was called the Student Volunteer Movement.  Before the movement was over, more than 100,000 students stood up to be part of it by giving, praying and going. More than 30,000 actually went overseas-and packed all of their belongings in a pine box.  They knew that they would likely die early, and this box would serve as their casket.

So I’ve been wondering what God is wanting to do on the college campuses…..how does He want to use those of us in Campus Impact?  Because when you look around God has given us about 1% of the population of college students to shepherd in the college group.  Which means if that 1% moves toward Jesus and becomes more like Him……God could use them to change the campuses…

But for that 1% to move towards Christ - the leaders of the college ministry - the student leaders - 1% of those in the college group…..must be moving towards Jesus. It comes back to our own personal lives - to my personal life - I must be pursuing Christ and allowing Him to change me!  And as I pursue Jesus and stay faithful to the leadership task He’s put in front of me - influencing those He has given me to shepherd as a small group leader or coach or team leader or even those in my group of friends, God will work through me to encourage them to pursue Jesus!!!

So what do you think?  How does this idea strike you?