Looking for the Supernatural On Campus

God's Spirit is on me; he's chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor, Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, To set the burdened and battered free, to announce, "This is God's year to act!" He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the assistant, and sat down. Every eye in the place was on him, intent. Then he started in, "You've just heard Scripture make history. It came true just now in this place." -Jesus of Nazareth (Luke 4:18-20 - Isaiah 61:1,2)

There's all this clamoring for attention on campus. Everyone wants a piece of the universities soul. Myriads of leaders, clubs and causes all vying for position and power. If they really thought about it, ...who they are really looking for is Jesus. Most don't know who He is. Most have never encountered him. Most looking for Him all the wrong places. Most miss Him by a mile, even most Christian groups. All this whirlwind of activity, ...much of which will not last or matter much in in this life or the Next.

There's a hunger and thirst in the souls of today's college students that is off-the-charts. They are searching for Jesus, but they are not aware it's Jesus they are looking for. This quiet desperation is fueled by intellectual angst, cultural emptiness, and father-mother-hunger . These days are an uprecidented time for the Gospel (on campus and off). So, it's not business as usual for campus ministers. I've been pulling out and dusting off the basics ("the radicals") again. I've experimenting lately with fully letting Him live His live in and through me in the power of the Holy Spirit and I've been humbled. I'm beginning to see stuff happen in me and on campus that can only be explained as supernatural.

So this April, I've asking myself, "Where are Jesus and His followers "making history" on campus these days?" "Where are Jesus' disciples on campus breaking out their churches and campus ministries and manifesting Jesus' attractiveness, Jesus' holiness, and Jesus' supernatural good works?" Pay attention, the Spirit of the Living God is upon us and we've been sent by the Holy Spirit to preach, free, heal, and announce "This is God's year to act!" I feel like I've been holding back during my past career as a campus minister ----I feel like now is the time to pull out the stops. I feel like we are on the verge of something extraordinary happening in our day and age. Let's lean into it.