Sexy Pizza

Well, I can't really say much about this week; now that we're pretty much done with the New Student Outreach events for the semester, InterVarsity is starting to take on something of a normal pace. I'm definitely not complaining.

So, yes, my small group went well, though again only 2 students were able to show up. I also had to cancel my discipleship group for the week since all of the guys had other things to take care of. That pretty much leaves the Large Group, and well, let me start off by explaining some things:

This coming week, we're holding a special outreach called Sexy Pizza. We got a grant from the region for holding an evangelistic event, so we're offering free pizza to anyone who stops by and then having a panel discussion of the Christian view of sex. Our panel includes pastors, and even a Christian sex therapist, which is good because as an outreach event, we're sure to get all kinds of, um, interesting questions from the audience.

To lead up to the event, though, we're going to run another Proxe Station - one of our interactive evangelistic tables. As with the Proxe we did last semester, we are again providing a place for students to respond to our prompt: "What do you think Christians think about sex?" We hope that through our interactions with students we will be able to really show them the reasons that God has set standards for our sexual lifestyles and reveal their need for Him.

All of this to say that we wanted to have our training for the Proxe Station for the last Large Group , and I had the privelege of leading it. We had a demonstration of me running the table while one of the student leaders, Nikki, was our student for the demonstration. The presentation went well, but apparently I was blushing the whole time. (It was unscripted, and some of the questions ended up a little awkward, haha.) After the demonstration, we had the students split up and practice with one another and attempt a Gospel presentation as well. All in all, the night went really well, and even my little blunders helped make the whole thing a bit more fun and hopefully less intimidating.

We'll have the Proxe this Wednesday and Thursday and then Sexy Pizza Thursday night. Please keep both of those events in your prayers, especially that all of us would be able to effectively engage the students with both truth and love. I expect some great things to happen both for those who show up and for our students who will be running it, and I'm really excited to see what God has in store!

"May your fountain be blessed,
and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
A loving doe, a graceful deer—
may her breasts satisfy you always,
may you ever be captivated by her love.
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress?
Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife?"
- Proverbs 5:18-20