After an event where he found out he was the only Christian in the class, he began to really yearn for more people to get saved, praying day and night for revival in young people. A few years later God then gave him 3 dreams, and one after the other, the events unfolded in reality, and he was quite sure that God was saying something. So he went to his pastor and the pastor interpreted the dreams for him, saying they were about revival and reformation. The final confirmation call came when he actually met Bob Weiner, whom he dreamed, and he was preaching on the same 3 subjects that had been in his heart since the beginning.
So Jaeson's ministry is about these 3 things (the three 'R's):
- Revival (campus houses of prayer) - a spiritual awakening starting with revival prayer. But out of this comes action, which leads to...
- Reformation of Society (power evangelism) - preaching the gospel through the power of the Holy Spirit in every sphere of society: government, business, education, media, arts, family, etc... The modern church has been ineffective in this, shown by the fact that divorce, abortions, violence, sexual immorality, materialism, disdain for God has not reduced but increased. The paradigm of church must shift, thus...
- Restoration of the New Testament Church (planting simple churches) - empowering every believer to plant relationship-based, student-led house churches, like in Acts.
These 3 things are what the remainder the book is about.
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So why focus on the Campus? (as does AFC)
Fact #1: 80% of all high school students who attend church before college do not return to church after college.
Fact #2: Average of Christians on university campuses is less than 5%.
Fact #3: Only 4% of young people (born after 1984) believe in the Bible as infallibly true.
So if we don't reach the campus, there will be no Church tomorrow.
And historically, almost all revivals started on campuses, because most people make decision for Christ there, and they are the future leaders who are the influencers of the rest of society and the world.

questions:
ReplyDelete1. why do church paradigm have to shift? (i agree that it has to shift!) why would God let us develop a paradigm that's no good for us? that doesnt work for us?
2. yes, historically revivals began on campuses, but nowadays, students on campuses are so occupied with studying and career-building and socializing and stuff that they dont even spare the time to come to fellowship/church! why are students of this generation different from the past generations? how are they different??
"So if we don't reach the campus, there will be no Church tomorrow." -- this is scary ... and so true.