Equip: the Friday Night Meeting
Fridays 7.30 - 9.30pm in Portland Ballroom or Maths & Physics B1
Next Equip: Friday 12 Mar in Portland Ballroom
As a Christian Union, we’re not a church, we’re not a Christian social club, we’re not even a really big quiche – we are a missionary organisation – a mission team, if you like, made up of hundreds of students from many different backgrounds and denominations.
Our mission: to glorify God by making disciples of Jesus Christ in the student world.
That makes us missionaries. And that’s what we’re here for – to make disciples of
Jesus Christ – to help people grow in their relationship with Jesus: whether
that means coming to know Jesus for the first time as they put their trust in Him, or whether that
means getting to know Him better as they seek to live for Him each day.
So, as a Christian Union one of our primary functions is to reach out to students who don’t know Jesus and tell them the good news. We seek to do that collectively by putting on events – such as Lunchbars, Mission Week happenings, hall events and whatnot – and also individually as we talk to our friends about Jesus and witness to how He has transformed – and is continuing to transform - our lives.
What Nottingham University Christian Union is all about is that time during the week when you go to your neighbour and say, ‘so – what do you think about this Jesus bloke?’
Right, so the reason we meet together on a Friday night is to equip each of us for that:
to equip each of us to live for Jesus and speak for Jesus.
At Equip:
- we have a talk, so that we can be taught from God’s Word to be better
equipped to live for Jesus and speak for Jesus.
- we hear about events that are happening –
so we can be equipped to know how we can be involved in God’s work through the CU.
- we pray together – to thank and praise God, and to ask Him to work in
students’ lives by equipping us to do what he wants us to do. (see also:
Prayer Meetings)
- we sing songs – to collectively thank, praise and worship God for who
He is, for all He’s done for us and for what he’s doing here in Nottingham.
- we chat to each other at the end of the meeting – so that through
fellowship we can seek to equip each other to better live for Jesus and speak for Jesus.
- we have bargainous books available to buy – to further equip us.
