“It had taken me a long time, with considerable help from wise Christians, both dead and alive, to come to this understanding of church: a colony of heaven in the country of death, a strategy of the Holy Spirit for giving witness to the already-inaugurated kingdom of God.” Eugene Peterson, The Pastor, A Memoir
I am often asked, “What is Chi Alpha?”
The definitions get muddled sometimes.
“We are a Christian community on campus.”
“We reach students for Christ.”
“We reach students, train them, and send them out for the glory of God.”
We know what we do, but what are we?
What if we saw ourselves as a “colony of heaven in the country of death”? What if our task were to be the way the Holy Spirit announces that the Kingdom of God is here, smack dab in the middle of my campus?
My community?
My world?
How would we then look? How would we act?
We would be people of hope.
And in a country of death, hope is a bright light that people desperately need.
