Our vision in Cru is launching movements everywhere until everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus. It’s a big picture goal of what we are trusting God to do through Cru.
On campus, it often looks like creating groups of multiplying disciples. But what does this practically look like?
The steps to reach our vision are prayer, win, build, and send. We call this our Cru DNA. Each part of our DNA plays a unique role in the development of a movement culture and vision for building a spiritual movement.
Pray
Through prayer we express dependence upon the Lord for our life and ministry, trusting Him to change lives. Some practical ways to do this would be…
- Including prayer in each of your leadership meetings.
- Pray together before doing any kind of outreach.
- Having certain times each week where your movement gathers to pray.
- Setting aside a week during the year for a 24 hour prayer chain.
Win
The greatest thing we can do for another person is to show them how they can know for sure that God loves them, that while they are sinners, Jesus died for them, and that all they need to do is trust Him to be Lord and Savior. Some practical ways to do this would be…
- Lead a devotional for your leaders on why we share our faith.
- Teach your students how to use a variety of tools to share their faith.
- Establish a time each week to share the gospel together on campus.
- Set a goal of how many people you all want to initiate sharing Christ with this year.
Build
Once a person comes to Christ, we want to help them grow in their relationship with God.
- Spend time in God’s word every day yourself and invite your students to do the same.
- Get involved in and offer students options for Bible believing churches.
- Train your students to use Life Concepts as a tool to follow up with anyone who has placed their faith in Christ.
- Find spiritual mentors for each of your leaders and train them to be spiritual mentors for the rest of the movement.
- Establish weekly small group Bible studies and other gatherings for prayer, fellowship and fun.
Send
Finally, we want to send students on to the next place where God will grow them and use them to win, build, send others as life-long followers of Jesus.
- Ensure that you are living a fully surrendered life.
- Ask God regularly how you can live out pray, win, build, and send.
- Help your students think about practical ways to live out our Cru DNA.
- Invite everyone in your movement to conferences and summer missions so that they can see what God might do in and through them.
- Talk with each person in your movement about their future and what it will look like to make decisions from a heart surrendered to God’s leading.
- Consider asking students to help start new movements in other places and within other communities.