Cru Winter Conference: Students’ Questions & Steps of Faith
Our first large college gathering after Covid and about 500 college students gathered from CA, WA, UT, and AZ over the MLK weekend to grow in their faith. On our first night, students wrote on monuments around the room questions they had about God. Questions they needed to deal with so they could now choose by faith to trust in God and move forward in the things He has planned for them. Some of the questions are shown above. They are heart-wrenching. This is why we continue to reach out to this next generation with the hope of the gospel and the healing that comes from a personal relationship with Jesus.
Holly had the privilege of leading two seminars on how to live in God’s will, which led her to have multiple follow-up phone calls with students wanting to learn how to walk in sexual purity or forgive those who have sexually assaulted them. Many students shared how they had not understood what the Bible says about God’s will and how to apply it to their lives. It was encouraging to see that they desire to live in His will.
The day of outreach was hampered by rain, but students still took steps of faith. Amari bravely went to a mosque to talk to women about God. One veiled woman said she believed God was merciful. Amari said that in her quiet time just that morning, she read how God explains how He is a merciful God. She asked permission to read the woman the passage of Scripture from Ephesians 2:4-9. The woman said yes. Here’s what Amari read to her:
“But because of his great love for us, God who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this is a gift from God-not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Though the Muslim woman did not put her faith in Christ, she heard about the God of mercy who sent Jesus to us because He loves us.
Thank you for praying and partnering with us as we continue to impact and invest in this next generation! Your partnership is making an eternal difference!
