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Deja vu all over again
By Jeremy | March 4, 2005
Small, bare-bones campus ministries proliferated at NYU and had little, if any, impact on non-Christian students. We all seemed so focused on resolving internal struggles simply to survive that evangelism was at best an afterthought, when we thought about it at all. When we actually did something about it, our attempts typically left us feeling ineffective and irrelevant. ... The opportunity to produce Luke with the student council’s funding finally galvanized the fellowships to collective action. ... Luke proved more successful than any of us could possibly have expected. For more than a week promotional materials blanketed the campus. It sold out in less than two days, with more than 250 people attending. Students lingered afterwards to discuss the “script†at a reception. The school newspaper covered it on the front page, we raised more than $600 for charity, and our university, a very secular institution, named The Gospel of Luke “Event of the Year†and awarded the various Christian clubs for “Best Co-Sponsorship.†At Urbana ’93, Rev. Peter Cha cited the event at a general session attended by 18,000 students as exemplifying the impact campus unity could have on evangelism. ...Read the rest of the story here.
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