I think we’re all looking for love.
Not necessarily romantic love, we might not even describe our behaviour as ‘looking for love’ but I think everyone wants to belong, to be part of something, to feel needed, to feel significant.
It’s hardwired in the human condition. The bible states that we can love God because God first loved us (1 John 4:9). It’s perhaps not surprising that Jesus said the greatest commandment was “love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.” (Mark 12:30-21)
We’ve been put here on a mission, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you” (Matthew 28:19-20).
If you go back and look at the Greek word used to describe ‘all nations’ in that last passage, it could also be translated as every ‘tribe, nation or people group’. Students are a people group with their own culture, systems of governance and behaviours. Less than 2% have encountered and responded to Jesus’ love.
