the ABC's of the Chi-Alphabet
chi-alpha is one of the scariest things to me for a couple of reasons:
1. i don't really know what college life consist of, especially on a university campus. i am not used to the completely secular mindsets of professors, the party lifestyle, an enviroment where you feel like a small fish in a big ocean, where no one really knows who you are. its difficult because here at vfcc its a little world where i am known pretty well, and it would be a harsh transition to go into a new world and have to start again.
2. there are so many people on a campus that it would be really difficult to feel like you have reached all of them. to me planting a church in a town is less intimidating because you have more than just 4 years to make an impact on city, and you have more than just the same age group in a city. with chi-alpha you have 4 years until freshmen become seniors and you feel obligated to minister to them before those 4 years are up or you will lose them. its just hard knowing that every single person that you would walk by, that you encounter, that you see in your everyday coming and going, is who you are called to minister to...
maybe thats the way i should look at my life everyday? or maybe i just need to realize that no one person is going to reach them all you have to be part of a bigger group, and maybe that is what Chi-Alpha is all about...preparing a group of people to reach their entire campus for the Lord.
lets face it, it probably takes alot of prayer for this thing to really work and its not for the faint of heart, and one could say that about all ministery.
i need to shape up
1. i don't really know what college life consist of, especially on a university campus. i am not used to the completely secular mindsets of professors, the party lifestyle, an enviroment where you feel like a small fish in a big ocean, where no one really knows who you are. its difficult because here at vfcc its a little world where i am known pretty well, and it would be a harsh transition to go into a new world and have to start again.
2. there are so many people on a campus that it would be really difficult to feel like you have reached all of them. to me planting a church in a town is less intimidating because you have more than just 4 years to make an impact on city, and you have more than just the same age group in a city. with chi-alpha you have 4 years until freshmen become seniors and you feel obligated to minister to them before those 4 years are up or you will lose them. its just hard knowing that every single person that you would walk by, that you encounter, that you see in your everyday coming and going, is who you are called to minister to...
maybe thats the way i should look at my life everyday? or maybe i just need to realize that no one person is going to reach them all you have to be part of a bigger group, and maybe that is what Chi-Alpha is all about...preparing a group of people to reach their entire campus for the Lord.
lets face it, it probably takes alot of prayer for this thing to really work and its not for the faint of heart, and one could say that about all ministery.
i need to shape up
posted by .bofa. @ 2:11 PM
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