Back to Campus

Back to Campus Talk, FUI ‘05

Intro

God loves you deeply and wants your heart more than anything

Deut. 6:4-9

And, he will be testing you to see what’s in your heart

Deut. 8:1-6

Let’s talk about taking FUI back to your campus (fellowship, church college group, other)

What are things you’ve already been considering?
Where are the places of influence that you are already anticipating for this coming year?
- What would it look like to bring issues of justice and reconciliation into your place of influence?
Taking a fresh look at your campus, are there (campus or fellowship) justice issues you can now see?
- What might it look like to address one of them as a small group or fellowship?
How might ethnic reconciliation be encouraged and brought more to the forefront?

Role play in pairs and share in a positive and inviting way one significant thing you learned from the summer (conversation with pastor unfamiliar with urban, justice and reconciliation topics, and ambivalent about your “conversion” experience”

What are some things you learned from this?
What questions do you have about taking your experience home in a gracious way?
- use your post-FUI decisions and testimony as parables for people
  - Jesus taught a lot in parables, looking for people who would respond
  - lead others to an understanding of what you’ve learned – get them excited too

7 thoughts about taking FUI back to campus

pray and fast
- take time to process this summer
- still much to be learned from FUI even after you go home
- ask Jesus to show you how to bring FUI back to your campus
humility and compassion
- we are dependent upon God’s grace – none of us are complete in these things
- can’t expect others to be aware of or excited about things we’ve experienced this summer
- they haven’t had the same experience
- think about how to tell your story in a compelling, yet gracious way that is inviting
study God’s word at any opportunity
- continue to learn more about the heart of God
- we all have so much more to learn
- remember that we are on a journey and need to press on
be in community
- began learning new things this summer
- build on them
- key for developing character, which is vital foundation for ministry
get involved locally with the poor
- learn most from face to face interaction
- established local ministries
- even in smaller cities or towns – Habitat for humanity, homeless ministries, children’s group homes, Big Brothers/Big Sisters
- opportunities on campus
- Student Community Services at Cal Poly
- Progressive Student Alliance
- get to know justice issues on campus and get involved
- 10% retention rate at Cal Poly
invite others to come along with you (small group or even whole fellowship)
- pray for justice issues at chapter prayer meetings
- have justice moments at LG
- share about an issue, connect to Scripture and have people pray
- study one of the prophets in a SG
- study Biblical basis of reconciliation
- study passages about the poor
- some of you will be on teams making decisions (LG or SGs) – be an influence
- advocate for all of these things to be taught at LG
- advocate for change in your fellowships to make these issues more central
- leadership structures, teaching, prayer meetings, fellowship involvement with the poor
- i.e. – Justice Coord position at Cal Poly (explain this)
- bring people with you when you do anything – MODEL
be good steward of your education
- examine your major in light of needs of the city and the poor, and the skills and interests God has given you
- take ethnic and religious studies classes, urban and other sociology classes, world food politics
- learn a practical foreign language
- visit culture specific or multi-cultural centers – make friends there
- build cross-ethnic friendships