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A Brief & Exciting Campus Ministry Update

Written by Gary Stevenson

April 10, 2013

In January, MIT Nuclear Physicist Dr. Ian Hutchinson gave a talk at both SFU and UBC that explored the relationship between Science and Faith. It was encouraging to see students and faculty join in on a great discussion that demystified the common misconception that science and faith are in conflict.

In early March, we hosted world-renowned philosopher Dr. William Lane Craig for a series of talks at SFU and UBC. On March 1st, Dr. Craig gave a very thought-provoking talk at SFU entitled “Is Belief In God Reasonable?” to a standing room only crowd of 150 including a number of students and faculty from the SFU Philosophy Department. It was encouraging to witness Dr. Craig answer their most difficult questions. A number of students and faculty have recently remarked that they are now giving the Christian faith serious consideration.

On March 5th, Dr. Craig then gave another academic talk to a capacity crowd of over 400 students at UBC entitled “Does a Fine Tuned Universe Point to a Cosmic Designer?”

One of the first questions during Q&A with Dr. Craig came from a girl who was deeply moved by Dr. Craig’s very scientific talk. She sincerely asked, “Now that you have convinced me that there is an intelligent being that has created me, what should I do about this? Does this being require me to worship him? How should this change my life?”

My colleague Jessica shared an interesting insight regarding her question: “As I listened to her ask her question, I realized that, over the last hour, her entire worldview had made an enormous shift.”

I am sure that she was not the only one grappling with the question, “What do I do now?” Please pray that students would continue to take bold steps towards Him!

I have recorded some of the talks and have just posted the UBC talk on our Youtube Channel if you want to see it and share it with your friends.