Campus Challenge

Well, I figured, I would post my thoughts on Campus Challenge, a conference run by AFC that went from last Friday until today (Monday) at Peterborough.

What is Campus Challenge? For me, it has equipped and challenged me to be a disciple of Jesus Christ on campus and really has spoken to me about leadership which I have not looked at before. The speaker? Allison Siewert, the drama coordinator at Urbana 03, who spoke truth into my life. Have I been trying to live that comfortable "Good Christian Life" that I have forgotten what truly matters? Am I so worried about how others view me as that it acts as a wall and prevents me from truly being who Jesus was? Being a Christian isn't easy. Jesus was never easy. He made friends with the undesirables of society (homeless, prostitutes, tax collectors), overturned merchant tables in the temple courts, stirred up the religious leaders of the day, and just about defied all common conceptions of what was seen as "right" for the sake of truth.

Christianity was never about Dos and Donts, but rather, it is about being the completely yielding of yourself to God's will regardless of others.

Ultimate Injustice

I guess, I wanted to write down some thoughts I had about what it means to be a Christian, or as I would like to say, a disciple of God most High. I've often forgotten how undeserving I am of the ultimate injustice that I have been graced with: that is God sending His son Jesus Christ to die in my place so that my sins deserving death could be redeemed. When I really think about it, there is nothing that is worth complaining about when I myself have been undeservingly given such grace by God. What can I do in return for Him? There is absolutely nothing I can do to repay the debt that I owe for God's salvation.

But God does not look for me to repay the unrepayable, but rather all He wants is my all and all to worship Him and glorify Him so that others may also see how I have been blessed and how they are blessed as well by this ultimate injustice. As Matt Redman says it, worship is "the all-consuming response to the all-deserving worth and revelation of God."

This is just the chorus to "Jesus paid it all", but I find so much truth and revelation to it:

Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe
Sin has left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow

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