from flickr by stu-pot78 I spoke 14 times at Nottingham University last week, and we had a great finale with around 280 people coming to “Why Does God allow Suffering?” on Friday lunchtime. The evening talks were from Luke’s gospel. At the end of each talk, we asked people to fill out a feedback form, and across the whole week, 37 people who are not part of the Christian Union, (and as far as the CU guys are aware are not Christians), ticked the box that says: “Count me in.”
Highlights of the week include seeing the CU guys out flyering at 8.30am! Seeing Moslems understand for the first time the scandalous nature of the gospel (e.g. “but how can God be so weak as to allow his prophet to die on the cross?” “How can God be just and merciful?” questions I was asked publicly by Moslems) but most of all being able to preach the gospel 3 times a day every day to people who are miles away from ever coming to church, who are just “passing traffic” (i.e. they happened to be walking past the venue and just wander in and hear about Jesus) or the sort of people who understand that ideas have consequences (i.e. they are part of the Humanist Society or the Atheists Society or the Islamic Society).
We had a great team of around 25 people who are not students who came onto campus for the week as “C.U. Guests” and they are typically student workers at local churches or graduates who return to Nottingham for the week. It was a privilege to serve alongside these people, some of whom give up a week of their annual leave to sleep on a students floor and live in a hall of residence to share Jesus with students.