Christians on Campus

Welcome!

We are Christians on Campus, a club of believers who love the Lord and His appearing (2 Tim. 4:8). Our goal is to pursue the Lord together with those who call on His name out of a pure heart (2 Tim. 2:22). We firmly believe that the Christian life is not meant to be an isolated life, but one of companionship. At Christians on Campus you will find other students who also desire to strengthen their relationship with Jesus through prayer, Bible studies, and fellowship with other believers.

We understand that your time can be limited, so we host numerous events at varying times so that members may participate according to their availability:

• Monday Bible Study: A book in the Bible is covered throughout the semester, at the pace of one or two chapters a week. We also gather in smaller groups throughout the week to read the Bible or just fellowship according to need. Members are encouraged to take the lead as to what should be done during these times based upon their situation.
• Healthy Words: Most Thursday evenings we gather to eat dinner, sing and worship, praise the Lord, and read as well as fellowship over a matter related to our Christian life.
• Breakfast: Most Friday mornings we come together to have breakfast, worship, and fellowship.
• Progressive Dinner: Twice a semester we have a dinner in which the appetizer, main course, and dessert are all held in different homes. We study a different topic each time. This is a great way to get to know other students from North Lake as well as believers in the area.
• College Conference: Christians clubs from across the state of Texas come together for a weekend to worship and study the Word with other Christian students for one weekend. The conference provides the opportunity for students from different places to become connected with one another, especially with those of a prospective campus.
• Campus Connect: Christians clubs from around the Metroplex come together for one evening in either Denton or Arlington to praise the Lord and fellowship.
• End of Semester Celebration: A sweet time where we reflect on what the Lord has done for us and in us through the semester.

We hope you can join us!

If we have believed in the Lord we are saved. But how can we be sure? This new video by BfA set out in a simple way how we can know we are saved.

1 John 5:13 says: I have written these things to you that you may know that you have eternal life, to you who believe into the name of the Son of God.

God has created man in His own image. Just as a glove is made in the image of a hand to contain a hand, so also man is made in the image of God to contain God. When man receives God into him, he can then express God. Man is made as a vessel with three parts: a body, a soul, and a spirit. The body can contact and receive the things of the physical realm. The soul can contact and receive the things of the psychological realm. The spirit, the innermost part of man, can contact and receive God Himself. Man was created not merely to contain food in his stomach, or to contain knowledge in his mind, but to contain God in his spirit.

Although God created man in His image in order to contain Him, man sinned, and sin entered into man. Sin damaged all three parts of man, alienating him from God. Man could not receive God in this fallen condition. Nevertheless, man’s fall did not deter God from fulfilling His plan. God took several steps in order to accomplish His plan. First, God became a man called Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ lived a perfect, sinless life for 33 ½ years. Then he died on the cross to redeem man, thus forgiving him of his sins and bringing him back to God. Finally, in resurrection, Jesus Christ became the life-giving Spirit so that He could dispense Himself into man’s spirit.

To become a Christian is very easy. The Lord Jesus has accomplished all that is needed for man’s salvation, and man can now receive God as his eternal life into his spirit. The Bible calls this regeneration. To receive the Lord Jesus Christ as his eternal life, man must simply repent to God and believe into the Lord Jesus Christ and all that He has accomplished for him.

Simply come to the Lord Jesus with an open and honest heart and say to Him:

Lord Jesus, I am a sinner. I really need You. Thank You for dying for me. Lord Jesus, forgive me. Cleanse me from all my sins. I believe You rose from the dead. I receive You right now as my Savior and life. Come into me and fill me with your life! Lord Jesus, I love You! I give myself to You for Your purpose. Amen.

After regeneration, a Christian needs to be baptized. Then the Lord Jesus begins the wonderful, lifelong process of gradually spreading Himself as life from a Christian’s spirit into his soul. The Lord’s spreading Himself as life within a Christian requires human cooperation. This cooperation affords the Lord the way to spread into a Christian’s soul until all of his mind, emotion, and will become one with Christ. Finally, at Christ’s glorious return, He will fully saturate the Christian’s body with His life. Thus, instead of being empty and fallen, a Christian is filled and saturated with God as life! Such a man now expresses God, fulfilling God’s plan!

Q.            What does it mean to be a Christian?

A.            Christians, first mentioned in Acts 11:26, is the name given to men and women who have believed into and received Jesus Christ (John 1:12-13). A Christian is thus a disciple and a follower of Christ, a person who has been joined to Him by life (1 John 5:11-12), and a person who is a member of His Body (Ephesians 5:30). We were specifically designed and created by God to be Christians. This is the meaning of our human life.

Q.            Who is Christ?

A.            Jesus Christ is God incarnated as a man to be our Savior (John 1:1, 14). He is the Lord, He is God, and He is the Son of God. He is the Savior of the world and the One who is the center of every Christian’s faith. Without Christ there would be no Christians.

Q.            How do I become a Christian?

A.            To become a Christian one has to believe into and therefore receive the Lord Jesus. You just have to pray a simple prayer such as:

Lord Jesus, I open myself to You. I need You. Come into me. I repent of all my sins. Thank You for dying for me. I take You as my life and Savior. Fill me with Yourself. Thank You for saving me. Amen.

By doing so, He will come into your spirit, and you will receive Him as your life (be born again, or regenerated).

Q.            What does it mean to be saved?

A.            Generally speaking, to be saved is to believe in Christ and therefore to become a Christian. When someone believes into Christ He comes into them, regenerating their spirit. They are thus saved. However, man was created with three parts: a spirit, a soul, and a body(1 Thessalonians 5:23). God’s salvation is not limited to just our spirit. He wants to also save us in our soul and eventually save us in our body (Philippians 3:21; 1 John 3:2). The salvation of our soul is called transformation (Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 3:18). This is a life-long process whereby Christ renews our fallen soul until we are just like Him in our thinking, our choosing, and our feeling.

Q.            Now that I am a Christian what should I do?

A.            A Christian should love the Lord (Romans 8:28), love the other Christian brothers and sisters (1 John 3:14), grow in the divine life (Colossians 2:19b), read the Bible (Matthew 4:4), pray (Matthew 6:9) and meet with other Christians (Hebrews 10:25). There are also other things that you should do, but these are a good beginning.

Q.            What do Christians believe?

A.            Christians believe in a number of key things–these can be described as the items of the faith. They are as follows:

1.             The Bible is the Word of God.

2.             God is the Trinity, or Triune. This means that is He is three and one at the same time.

3.             Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is both God and man. He is at the same time fully God and fully man.

4.             Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, lived a perfect human life (without any sin), died on the cross for our sins, was resurrected on the third day, ascended to the Father in heaven, and will return one day.

5.             To become a Christian one has to repent to God and believe in Christ (Act 20:21); upon believing, one becomes a child of God and a member of the Body of Christ.

6.             All genuine believers are part of the church, which is Christ’s Body.

Q. What is the Bible?

A.            The Bible is a book that Christians believe is the divinely inspired Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21). It is divided into the Old Testament (covering the time before Christ was born) and the New Testament (from the time of the birth of Christ). The Bible is divided into chapters and verses – this makes it easy for a reader to find any particular passage.

Q.            What does the Bible tell us about the nature of God?

A.            There are three verses that describe what God is: God is Spirit (John 4:24), God is light (1 John 1:5), and God is love (1 John 4:8, 16).

Furthermore God is triune, or three-one. He is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, although He is only one God. This is a great mystery. The mystery of the Trinity can be seen throughout the Bible. One verse that shows this is John 1:1:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The Word (Christ) is both with God (the aspect of three) and is God (the aspect of one). Another verse that shows the mystery of the Trinity is Matthew 28:19:

Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

The name is singular, but it is of three–the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God is triune so that He can enter into us.

Q.            What does the Bible tell us about man?

A.            The Bible says that man was created in the image and according to the likeness of God (Genesis 1:26), that is, in a way that man can receive God. Furthermore, man was created with an outward body, an inward soul, and an even more inward spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:23). The spirit is the deepest and most important part of man–it is the organ that can contact, receive and contain God.

Q.            How can I be sure that there is a God?

A.            Christians believe in God. This is a matter of faith. Faith means that you believe in something that you cannot see, or perhaps objectively prove to others. However, there are two good ways to prove that God exists. The first one is outward–that is creation. If you consider the wonders, beauty, order, and complexity of creation, you will be drawn to the conclusion that there must be a God (Romans 1:20). Second, within every person there is a yearning for God. This is described in Ecclesiastes 3:11 where it says that God has put eternity in man’s heart. This is a longing for God. Every human being, whether consciously or unconsciously, has a longing for God.

Therefore, if you consider both the outward creation and the feeling deep within you, you will know that there is a God.

Q.            How can Jesus come into us?

A.            Jesus can come into us as the Holy Spirit. First Corinthians 15:45b says that the last Adam (who is Christ) became a life-giving Spirit. Thus, He is available anytime and any place to be received by men. We simply have to call on His name to receive Him.  Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.