2. Get students reading scripture
66% of students would like to read the Bible.
Yes, you read that right. We were amazed by this figure too. This is one of the most common ways that we are seeing students come to faith in Jesus. They read the Bible and encounter Jesus in its pages. The Spirit is speaking through scripture to students in the seclusion of their own spaces!
It is vital that we get Bibles into the hands of these students. Students today are spiritually hungry. They are waking up to a spiritual world and they want something real and good. They will look to satisfy this hunger in all sorts of places - it is our place and our privilege to offer them the word of God to feed this desire. In a post truth, AI generated, fake news world, it is very appealing to read the ancient words in the Bible. These words are reliable, trustworthy and good. These are words that have outlasted empires and kingdoms, words which have stood the test of time over millennia. Young adults today are curious to read these words and when they do, the Holy Spirit moves through them.
So, how can you give a Bible to a non-Christian student who is spiritually interested? The easiest way is to share this link, and Fusion will send them a Bible, along with handy tips on how, and where, to get started. Or you can order some Bibles as a church and encourage your students to see if their friends would like to read the Bible.
But none of this means we can just sit back and relax as church leaders. Invitation is still key. We have recently heard the story of a fresher who downloaded Genesis on her Kindle because it was free. She read it, enjoyed it, and so downloaded Exodus. Book by book, over the course of two years, she read through the Bible on her own, in her room. She gave her life to Jesus, but had never been to church. When she arrived at University, she was invited along by someone on a freshers fair stand. “I’ve been waiting two years for someone to ask me,” she said, “thank you.”
Encourage students to invite everyone. They will never know how God has been moving in the lives of their friends. Maybe, just maybe, the invitation will reveal how much groundwork God has already laid.
3. Students want to participate not consume church
