Spirituality, love, freedom, success and truth. Those are some of the topics that I had the opportunity to speak to university students about this past February at Strathclyde University
in Glasgow for their Christian Union’s events week. Along with speaking at their evening events, I also participated in some lunch events – one where I was asked to speak about ‘Jesus and the failures of the church’.
Across the week we were at different venues around the campus, but no matter where we were there was always a great turn out, which wasn’t unexpected with the variety of activities on offer at the events. From a pub quiz, to ‘Bonkers Bingo’, to an open mic night, to constructing pancakes and playing Wii, there was something for everyone, but it also created great spaces where people could come in and meet members of the Chrisitan union, experience some community, and hear about Jesus.
This year as part of the talks I was working through part of the Gospel of Luke as a way to engage with relevant topics and also introduce people to Jesus, perhaps for the first time.Many people still have a very skewed idea of what Christianity is really about (often not helped much by social media), and so it is always such privilege to explain the truth of Jesus and show how Christianity is not only true, but answers the big questions of life better than anything else.
