On one hand we invite friends to church or Bible study ... but are we priests? The staff at University Fellowship of Christians hope to equip and encourage our students to be just that.
Desi, a graduate and alumna of Bulgarian Christian Student Union, remembers her time at university as one in which students were like aliens, living in a foreign land of the secular campus, and thieves, snatching people from darkness and bringing them into the light of a relationship with their Creator and Lord.
But Desi wishes she had also been a priest: 1 Peter 2:9-12
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
Desi says:
Don’t make the same mistake as I made. You can live out your role on campus as a royal priesthood. Perhaps you will ask a question that will change the mind of your lecturer forever. Perhaps you will hold a position regarding a theory that will make a lasting impression on your classmate. Perhaps you will do something that will make people curious about your faith. Perhaps a bold act will turn into an echo that will change your university, city or even society.
You can read her entire article here at the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students blog.
A grand example of some of our students acting as priests on campus are Eve and Courtney.
Eve started The UTAS Zero Waste Society and Courtney did the write-up about the society for Togatus, the university's independent societies magazine.
University Fellowship of Christians staff do not want to monopolize the social calendars of our students and want to as much as possible free them up to engage in Uni life and develop meaningful relationships, making an impact on our culture.
Please pray for our students and leaders that we may continue to serve in God’s kingdom as priests.