The Structure

Where the CU is at now...

Amazing!
Good numbers across colleges and main CU.
True friendship and real community occurring in ways that are fairly new to CU.
Colleges thriving and ‘family’ ties are strong.
And main CU is the place where intercollegiate strength, unity and central/focus place is found.
Also main CU providing great teaching, communal worship and strong ‘body of believers’.
However: Awareness that main Saturday night CU is becoming increasingly ‘church’ like…

Because…

United around our love for Jesus; belief that he is the way to being saved; and a collective desire for York Uni campus to hear the good news…
Therefore we don’t take a stance on ‘secondary issues’ that a church would have clarity and definition on.
As a body we invest in student leadership. Instead of having a group of elders, we work hand in hand with a wide range of local churches.
We are inter-denominational!
Church membership is a life long thing – CU membership sadly isn’t! Therefore churches are important!
Churches have a specific set of skills that comes from spiritual maturity and training/education, that we do not have.

Provide a source of teaching that is specifically relevant to students.
Provide fellowship and community (very important!)
Meet to worship God in the heart of campus – which is awesome and powerful witness!
Acknowledge and be challenged that as current students at York Uni, campus and other students are our ‘mission field’.
Good opportunity to hear a wide range of speakers, that wouldn’t be possible just from one church.

Each term normally has 9 weeks. These weeks are going to be split into the following:

(This may vary depending on the term. i.e. the first term has the first welcome week and also Houseparty.)

What you might expect.
Expositional bible teaching, following a theme/book.
Building block of all we do – will provide us with understanding on why we want to share the gospel.
Knowing more about who God is leads us to want and share that with others!

Practical relevant lifestyle applications to help us live as continual witnesses and evangelists at all times.
Areas of life that are relevant to students, from people who have specific knowledge and skills in that area.
Still strongly based in and from the bible.
Examples from this term … honouring God in our academics…
Learning how to put our thirst for telling people about God (which comes from the Theology ones) into action.

CU structure