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Organizers: How Do We Mobilize The CU?

ABH — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:27:55 +0000

You’re organising your first Lunchbar. You’ve crafted a compelling title, booked a brilliant speaker, snapped up a super venue, and printed out posh publicity. Do you want the good news or the bad news? The good news is the Lunchbar will be a complete success if the CU get behind it. The bad news is …

Christian Persuaders Student Groups

ABH — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:20:38 +0000

Christian Persuaders Student Groups: The Why, What & How (Seminar for UCCF Staff). Plus The Launch and Lead a Christian Persuader Student Group Handout Christian Unions are missional communities on campus led by students. Students are best placed to reach other students for Christ, as they have maximum integrity with university authorities, maximum creativity and maximum …

Speakers: Where Do I Start?

ABH — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:17:51 +0000

You can imagine the slightly condescending tone: “God gave you two ears and one mouth, so use them in that proportion“. But it’s the best advice I know for starting to write a Lunchbar talk. Our two greatest needs are to know what we’re talking about, and who we’re talking to. Therefore, before speaking we start …

Student Groups: What Would Be A Good Term Plan?

ABH — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:16:49 +0000

As the CPSG Leader you’ll need to alternate between being proactive and reactive. Proactively, you’ll be teaching students how to create Lunchbar talks from scratch: Teaching Sessions. Reactively, you’ll be chairing feedback for students who are testing out their Lunchbar talks: Feedback Sessions. The question is; which do you do first? How did you learn …

Student Groups: When & Where Should We Meet?

ABH — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:15:28 +0000

Think hard about this. When & Where will pretty much define Who. Lots, or a few. Students are busy. No really. You need to meet at a convenient place, at a convenient time. Do a bit of discrete research to discover the timetable and movements of the keenest CU Christians. Choose a venue and …

Organizers: What Makes A Good Lunchbar Series?

ABH — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:39:25 +0000

Many Christian Unions organise a series of Lunchbars, engaging with a variety of issues and students, and increasing numbers as one successful event can advertise the following one. But what makes a good Lunchbar series? Here are three types to consider. The ‘Weekly Regular’, the ‘Cluster’ and the ‘Events Week’. Some smaller CUs do a …

Organizers: What Makes A Good Lunchbar Talk Title?

ABH — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:59:37 +0000

Relevance and Punch. 1. What are your friends’ roadblocks to faith? What if everyone in your CU asked one non-Christian friend… What stops you believing? If you could have one question answered in a Lunchbar, what would it be? Gather a wonderful collection of very relevant Lunchbar issues, and then you’ll need to choose which …

Speakers: Keller’s Gospel-Shaped Apologetics

ABH — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:46:43 +0000

This is an edited transcript of Tim Keller’s talk ‘How The Gospel Changes Our Apologetic‘. Yes, it is incredibly long, but so is Tolstoy’s War and Peace and, you know what, I don’t mind the comparison. What is apologetics? Apologetics is an answer to the ‘why question’ after you’ve already given people an answer to …

Speakers: Appeal to Reason and the Imagination, right?

ABH — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:40:59 +0000

I was stretched out on the sofa, reading the introduction to ‘The Essential C.S. Lewis’, and musing about whether Lewis was right to appeal to reason and the imagination in his apologetics. Given the impact he had and continues to have (through his books, and also through current figures like Tim Keller who follow …

Three Little Generation Y Pigs

ABH — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:16:48 +0000

Once upon a time there were three little pigs, called Pig, Bud and Coz. Sociologists considered them Generation-Y pigs, born after 1982, and these pigs understood their lives through the lens of a ‘happy midi-narrative’. They didn’t believe in meta-narratives (like the Enlightenment’s story of progress or the Christian story of redemption), but they did …