Raising up a new generation of disciples in Latin America
Why reach university students
- Students are the most inquiring segment of society.
- Today’s students are tomorrows leaders.
- Students are a specialized field of ministry with distinct needs
- The university setting offers diverse opportunities, like no other place in society, for effective and extensive evangelism.
- The history of religious revival is interwoven with campus awakenings. Students have led the way in the greatest expansions of world evangelism.
- Involvement in campus ministry prepares students to serve in local churches.
- The Campus is Satan’s most impressive target.
The majority of professionals in the workforce have attended or are attending a university!
In his book, The Crisis in the University, Sir Walter Moberly makes this observation,
“On the fundamental religious issue, the modern university intends to be, and supposes it is, neutral, but it is not. Certainly it neither inculcates nor expressly repudiates belief in God. But it does what is far more deadly than open rejection; it ignores Him. It is in this sense that the university today is atheist. It is a fallacy to suppose that by omitting the subject, you teach nothing about it. On the contrary, you teach that it is to be omitted, and that it is, therefore, a matter of secondary importance. And you teach this not openly and explicitly, which would invite criticism; you simply take it for granted and thereby, insinuate it silently, insidiously, and all but irresistibly.”
Universities around the world are the steering wheels for our society: as goes the campus, so goes the culture. Our leaders are shaped in these halls of learning!
Today they learn and tomorrow they lead. These future world-changers must be reached with the gospel while they are more open than they will ever be again!