Kingdom Vision: Are You Blind?

On October 1st, I spoke at Nexus about John 9 "Kingdom Vision: Are You Blind?" The main themes I hit on were faith, doubt, and being open to seeing God work. Being honest, after the talk I did not feel confident about how it went, in fact it was the worst I have ever felt after a talk. But that night and over the next week, many people came up to me and told me how it impacted them. It is a blessing to know that even if I don't feel great about something, that God is still working.

Here is a video of me speaking (it may take a few seconds to buffer...)



Here are a couple responses/stories from the night...

Lindsay (sophmore) - "I thought I was the only one who ever had doubts, when you asked people to stand up if they have ever had doubts or lacked faith, and everyone did, it made feel ok about being honest with my doubts. I felt as though I wasn't alone."

Another girl had a class assignment to go to a campus event that would make her feel uncomfortable. So she decided that she wanted to go to the Nexus meeting, because that would make her the most uncomfortable. At the end of my talk I gave a call to faith, and she didn't respond. But this is what she later said about it, "I really connected to what the speaker was saying and wanted to respond", but did not feel ready. Since that night she has been coming back to Nexus by choice (not just for assignment!).

God is at work in students lives at SSU, and I know that there are many more stories like this every week. Praise God for what he is doing.

What is True Love?

On October 8th we had an evangelistic outreach called What is True Love? During the day we asked students on campus that very question through an interactive station (pictured on the right). This prompted further conversation and we invited curious students to the night event.




At the night event, we turned our normal Thursday night Nexus meeting into an outreach event. We had a guest speaker (former Sonoma IV staff turned local pastor) Kevin Finkbiner come and preach on true love. He spoke about how true love isn't what we see on tv or in society, but it is how God loves us. (Below are two short videos from the event).


The whole day went great and impacted the campus. Here are some numbers at a glance...

• 213 people came to the night event (that's about 50-60 more than an average Nexus)
• 160+ people talked with us about true love in the quad
• 10 people either raised their hand or marked on the response card that they want to start following Jesus

Please Pray for the people who came to faith, and for the new people that attended.