As you might have seen in my newsletter, this is the flier for our new women's campaign on campus. We recently started this new project! Its been a great experience so far. We are going on campus asking women really hard questions like:
What is beauty to you?
What makes a woman valuable?
Are women valued in society today?
What do you see when you see yourself?
How do you think God sees you?
Our focus is on two very distinct campuses. One is the humanities campus with the English Translation, Psychology, Law, Sociology and History majors. We have found the women to be open and willing to talk. In talking with two girls who are Sociology majors, we discovered that they had conflicting views on the church vs. God. Like so many Argentines, they went to Catholic private elementary, middle and high schools, where they are taught what to do to be a "good girl" and taught a bunch of "out-of date" teachings on the Bible. The power and love of the gospel is nonexistent in many of these schools. So as you can imagine, the picture of God they receive is one of a rule imposer, condemning them. Who would want that God? To have that perception of the Lord, I wouldn't want that either. What's the need for another authority in our lives to boss us around?
In talking deeper with the girls, the Lord gave us the chance to share about our personal relationship with the Lord and what He's actually done for us in his LOVE. How He's changed us, how he delights in us and allows us to delight in Him. Praying for the need of the gospel to come through to these girls, they kept sharing their views of religious people and their even less desirable religious rules. One of their comments was about how they didn't like that people just believed what was imposed upon them, that they heard something in school and then blindly followed it. When did the need for Jesus become a blind-dumb following? It is about questioning and searching and discovering why do I really believe this? I encouraged the girls to question to seek out answers, not just believe "because someone told me." In conclusion to this conversation we were able to present the Lord how He really is, desiring the hearts and lives of these girls, and wanting to know them on a personal level and caring for them. They were left questioning things they'd believed for years about the church and more importantly about who God is...Could He really care about ME?
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