The Crossroads
Every campus minister faces the following fork in his ministry mindset, “Am I part of a discipleship ministry that does evangelism OR am I part of an evangelistic ministry that does discipleship?” Think about it. Without qualification, how would you answer? Does it matter to you? Does it make a difference? Answer it with regard to your time. Chances are that you spend more time with believers than you do with unbelievers and so you might choose the former option. But time is not the primary filter I want you to use when answering this question. Ask it through the lens of your vision, desire, and intent. Did you take a different path?. Does it make a difference? Many campus ministries on the well-‐worn path of discipleship ministry wonder why they are not making a sizeable and sustainable long-‐term impact. Its not that they cannot but just that they will not unless they take a different path. Most campus ministries operate like today’s missionary distribution; 90% of their focus goes toward the already reached locales while the unengaged and unreached areas get a mere 10% of their energies. Spiritual reproduction has been exchanged for adoption. Instead of personally raising up laborers from the ranks of the lost world, we bypass this spiritual birth step to raise up another’s spiritual child. We don’t want to take the time and sacrifice of reproducing on the campus through gospel conversion, because we are fine with the ease of raising up the already converted. We will only ever be surrogate parents who raise up other infertile disciples unless evangelism becomes our primary vision in discipleship.