The God of the Bible is a God of action and initiative. Even and especially as it relates to the saving of mankind, God is not passive. Before the foundation of the world, God had determined that he would gather a people for himself. Throughout history He has expended himself to make the way for men and women to be united in fellowship with himself. Despite man's sin fueled rebellion, God graciously sent his one and only son, Jesus Christ to earth to rescue us! Jesus lived the perfect life that we could never live and died the death we deserved to die to make the way for us to live the glorious life we were created for!
1 John 4 makes it very clear -we love because he first loved us. Nobody is in a relationship with God because they took the first step! Paul, in the book of Romans says "no one seeks God!" If you are a Christian, it's not because you went out looking for God! It's because he was looking for you! He looked for you, and he found you! God takes the initiative to save sinners! Romans 5:8 famously says that God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. God cared for you, and laid down his very life for you his life for you before you every gave a rip about him!
Brought into fellowship with God, Christians are now commissioned to join God in his mission of reconciliation. Following Jesus by faith, the discipleship life is a life of action. With Christ as both our Lord and our leader, we expend ourselves to connect others with his transforming Love.
As Christ's ambassadors we want to act like Christ. We reach out. We take initiative. We give. We bless. As a ministry, we don't just set up camp somewhere and hope people happen to hear about Cru and come find us! We move towards the campus, we find ways to start conversations, we look for ways to serve and we strive to make the gospel as visible and accessible as possible. We want to care for others irrespective of their care for us!
God is on the move, and we are in movement with him!
