With 29,000 students, UTSA is a large campus. With dorms and housing springing up all around, the campus is not the "commuter only" campus it was 20 years ago. It is now a campus where students from around the United States and the world live and go to school.
I am often reminded of Acts 17, when Paul encounters the Athenian philosophers and their multitude of gods, when I walk the campus. Every world view, every faith, every lifestyle is present.
We cannot reach a campus in our own strength or in our own 'wisdom.' It sounds cliche because it has been so overused, but we truly do want to win the campus for Christ. It is our prayer that we will be a city on a hill, a light shining brightly in the darkness, the salt of the earth-that we would be more than a religious organization. It is our prayer and desire that we would truly be missionaries on campus.
Please pray for our campus. Pray for Baptist Student Ministries as well as other Christian ministries. Pray that we would shine brightly, move forward confidently in Him, that we would be filled with the Spirit and that we would not be ashamed of the Gospel-that we would proclaim it faithfully and boldly as we should.
Our students are some of the finest young people I know. They "get it." By that, I mean they understand that God has strategically called them to this university, to this ministry that they might be used by Him to reach lost students on campus. The big test for our students, as it is for so many followers of Christ, is that of faith: Will God be bigger in their eyes or will people? Will they walk by faith and boldly go, or will they choose to stay comfortable with one another? I praise God that they are following His lead and desire to be missionaries. Please pray that God would be glorified in their lives and on this campus.
29,000 people. That is a city. A city that desperately needs Jesus.
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