Jesus disciples in missionary position.

"For every student knows someone who is burning for Jesus": In many university towns want fellow students at Evangelical faith sparks ignite. Some missionize frömmelnd moderate, but some zealot rush on campus against gays and abortion.

 

Late is the hour, N1189 windows of the lecture hall of the TU Munich, kaltgrün the light. Still: 250 listeners sit there and listen. Because Big is announced: "Do we have to completely revise our world?", The moderator had asked at the beginning.

A good hour later, most in the audience clearly: No, we have not.

Dry substance gave them the Ancient Near Eastern Martin Heath in this hour shall, detail on detail refers to the ancient tombs, with inscriptions and their interpretation. At the end presented Heide explained that in his opinion, no documentary evidence on the other hand, says that Jesus could be resurrected. So far, the science, "says Heide. "Everything that comes afterwards, is faith."

Because faith is here. Especially around the goal, to spread it. The Unit is part of a four-semester lecture series to start with the title "The Bible - Myth or Truth?" Organizer is an association of Christian higher education groups. Their goal: the peer-to Christianity. They may spread their faith, precisely in that place where the science has prescribed, whose top priority is the falsification. God is not falsifiable.

"Just as enthusiastic football fans, we make it"

Religious influence attempts occur in almost every German university, the events are called "Lebstoff", "Bigger than you think" or simply "University Days". Organized almost always they are groups of students who describe themselves as Christian, but neither of the two major churches belong. Mostly, they are evangelical free churches nearby.

En passant implicate their fellow Christians in conversations about Jesus, the Bible and their own faith. In the weeks before Christmas last defenders were the most active: Because it can happen that the missionaries hungry on the way to the cafeteria with an info booth surprise, from which they are forgotten in the Christian background of the celebration and remember the New Testament away. This is what happened in the cafeteria Arcisstraße close to the TU Munich.

Had organized the conversion event "Student Mission in Germany" (SMD), the largest student organization in the network of the Evangelicals. The SMD has indicated that it has local groups in some 70 German university towns. There is talk, sung, prayed and read the Bible, the statutes require, however, as the name suggests, on the mission - the new group zuzutreiben sheep.

This objective, the Christian graduates something clever than naive
Brochure distribution at the door. Those who discussed with them, gets arguments like tolerance and freedom to hear. "Just as enthusiastic football fans tell them that their club is the best, just as we do that also," says Joachim Eichhorn, of the 15 Bavarian SMD care groups. He would not even "selfish, not to do so."

Building the network of awakening and conversion

Why selfish? Andreas Hähle, checkered shirt, long hair, is the head of some 15 souls strong SMD Group Munich, he carries the argument further: "If people are searching for meaning, I am happy to speak and answer questions," says the 21-year-old student in chemistry and biochemistry.

UNIblogs 6 / 2008

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The strategy: the first sparks of faith with friends and family to ignite. There are the young Christians throughout the times, they want to build a social network. Unlike Internet platforms such as Facebook and StudiVZ but it is not about Anbandeln and gossip, but about conversion and eternal life.

"Build movements that every student knows someone who is burning for Jesus," is the slogan of "Campus for Christ (CfC). The organization came as an offshoot of a U.S. mission to Germany and work has Today 21 local groups. At the Munich Composite includes Mike Morgan, 26, and Frank Bernhardt, 27 Bernhardt studied physics, Morgan visited before his math studies for two years a Bible school.

It hurt him to do, people to see that God does not know, because something would be missed, says Morgan. The sentences, which he describes conversion, sound for the rational mind of the scientist after nonage Directions to self: "He that repents, says: I see that I was bad. I see, I need forgiveness. I see it there forgiveness. I take it to, I take Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I therefore turn to because I will no longer alone source of my decisions. "