Newfrontiers Student Worker Day 07 (3) - Q&A

In what was the last Student Worker Day from Newfrontiers, the Holy Spirit inspired hearts and the Word of God was taught faithfully. There were the usual opportunities to meet new people and renew old friendships, and all of this made in a fantastic day in Oxford.

After the seminars we had one final session all together. This was allocated as a Q&A session, based on question which had been submitted throughout the day. There was a variety of questions from "How can I preach the gospel to my friends in a culturally relevant way?" to "Can a single man be an elder?"

I won't reproduce the conversations here for two reasons:

1) If I'd taken enough notes on it, I probably wouldn't have absorbed as much as I could.
2) I want you to be at the next equipping event like this, and perhaps sharing everything in detail wouldn't ncourage you to be there!

But I will say that I was surprised which question got me most interested, and it had to do with tithing and whether students should tithe out of their student loan. Various members of "the panel" were divided on this issue which fascinated me. I found myself reacting strongly, and subsequently writing several pages of notes on the subject on the train home. These will form the skeleton of a new post I will shortly be writing on the issue. Keep reading for more!

I will also say that the final question led to Tom Shaw asserting again that it is too small a thing for us to be simply concerned with the UK. And that more and more Mobilise will be focusing on the nations. Furthermore, that this was the final Student Worker Day and that from next year we who are student workers will be blessed with the same opportunity the Newfrontiers youth workers have had for years: a weekend away all together. Very exciting!