{"id":130,"date":"2008-07-24T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T09:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spiderscripts.co.uk\/?p=130"},"modified":"2022-02-12T10:22:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T10:22:26","slug":"130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"What If&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebluefish.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Bish<\/a> recently wrote a wonderful list of <a href=\"http:\/\/thebluefish.org\/2008\/07\/what-if.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what ifs<\/a> for CUs, which I feel the need to share here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We, in Christian Unions, started to think of <strong>everything<\/strong> we do as missional?<\/li>\n<li>We abolished &#8216;CU Evangelism Secretary&#8217; because the CU President is responsible for evangelism&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Everything we did was tailored towards intentionally driving us to mission?<\/li>\n<li>Mission was the focus of our prayer?<\/li>\n<li>Each week we could share the story of how people became Christians?<\/li>\n<li>We understood that having the Bible taught was about transforming and equipping us for mission as lovers of Jesus?<\/li>\n<li>We engaged with the false gospels preached on our campuses, of acceptance, shame, ambition, salvation by graduate job, security, money,&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>We engaged with the fears and hopes that people have &#8211; which the gospel has better answers for&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>We did mission weeks based on evangelistic preaching series on Job, Ecclesiastes, Ruth, Song of Songs &#8211; done right, publicised right&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Bish recently wrote a wonderful list of what ifs for CUs, which I feel the need to share here. We, in Christian Unions, started to think of everything we do as missional? We abolished &#8216;CU Evangelism Secretary&#8217; because the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/?p=130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}