Fulton St. Revival/Concerts of Prayer

Several area churches are putting together an exciting confrence about the 1857 Fulton Street Revival, and we thought that some of you would like to know about it. It would be awesome if a group of Navigators who felt particularly called to prayer could go to this and bring what they learn back to our community.

Many of us in Navigators have felt called to pray more, for our group, for our campus, our city, world (etc, etc.) We are going to try to encourage people to talk (perhaps on the comments section of this blog, online, over coffee, mcdonalds, etc,) about what we can do as a community to become more prayerful, and then how do we implement this. Think about it. Pray about it.

Christ Church Visit - 9/16

Hey, all. We're visiting Christ Church NYC (an independent Anglican church). One of the pastors, Justin Moffatt, has made a Youtube video inviting YOU to the student welcome picnic that they're having on Sunday, after the service.

Check out the video.

To come, just meet Stephanie and Meredith at Kimmel Center at 9am, we'll go to the service and then the picnic!

Inter-Varsity Evangelism Seminar

I received the following e-mail from Greg Essington, the president of one of our other great campus fellowships, Inter-Varsity. They are hosting a seminar this Saturday and have invited us to come. If you are interested in discussing how to (and then going and getting your hands a little dirty,) sharing with people the "hope that you have," then read on.

The Lord is making our campus ripe for the harvest. Both the secular media, such as New York Times, and the Christian media are reporting on the increasing spiritual hunger on campuses across the nation. An article in the Washington Square News speaks of the "Spiritual Secular Student" who challenges the religious trends and authorities. These students are a reflection of the post-modern pluralistic attitudes we see today and little do most of our fellow students know that Jesus himself came to this earth to challenge the religious authorities of his time. They actually have more in common with Christ than they think.

This Saturday, the 15th, from 10am-2pm in the Kimmel 7th Floor Lounge we will be having evangelism training focused on how to share the gospel clearly and how to give people an opportunity to respond specifically in our post-modern context. First two hours we will have training, and the second two hours we will have lunch go out to share the gospel with our fellow students on campus. Everyone is welcome and feel free to come to part of it if you have other plans.

Just as Christ said in his time "the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few." As we pray for more workers we need to step out into the fields as workers ourselves. I know there are many people out there who would be ready to commit their lives to Christ if we would just share what he is offering to them clearly and give them an opportunity to respond.

So there you have it folks. Take it or leave it.

First Nav Notes

He will say 'Come forth my drunk ones, my weak ones, my shameless ones!' And we will all come forth, without being ashamed, and stand there. And He will say "Swine you are! Of the image of the beast and of his seal; but come, you, too!

- Marmeladov, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

What I think is interesting about Dostoevsky is that he has this propensity for putting his most beautiful and eloquent prose in the mouths of his most pitiful characters; he gives the greatest lines to characters who just seem so utterly inconsequential, like the chronically drunk Russian official Marmeladov. He colors the high-powered and aristocratic varying shades of gray, while the lowly he renders in full-color. It seems so... backwards, nearly scandalous, how Dostoevsky empowers those in humble circumstances (even those who are there by their own choosing), and he humbles the powerful.

But he wasn't the first. That's exactly how Jesus did things. The very man who would save the world chose the most undeserving punks in the Mediterranean to be his closest assistants and his confidants. He chose these guys because he wanted to make a point: the love Jesus brought is a love that befriends and empowers the lowly, the lonely, the bold, the broken; the betrayed and the betrayers.

That means us--somehow we're caught in the middle of this irresistable love and revolutionary message. Come hang out as we figure out where we fit in to that.