Life on Mission

Use this 7-day campaign of Cru’s “Life on Mission” material to share how recent graduates can use their life after college to glorify God. We suggest using each of the bullet points for your Twitter account and choosing just one for your daily Facebook post. For graphics, click the link on the text and you’ll be taken to the graphic on our Facebook.

Day 1

• Article: "What does it look like to live your life on mission for Christ?"
  https://www.cru.org/communities/campus/lifeonmission.html
• “There is nothing stronger when the body of Christ comes together and says: We are going to be counted to make a difference.” – Bill Wilson, Metro Ministries
• #EvangelismOutreachIdea: Personal approach: One-On-One. Invite a friend, colleague or neighbour for coffee, to lunch or barbecue etc. and share your personal story how you met Jesus.
• Graphic: “The way you store up treasure in heaven is by investing in getting people there.” – Rick Warren

Day 2

• Article: "18-month roadmap for life on mission after graduation"
  https://www.cru.org/content/dam/cru/communities/campus/new-graduates-tips.pdf
• “Go out there, step out in faith. Do something you haven’t done before!” – Nick Vujicic, Life Without Limbs
• #EvangelismOutreachIdea: Practical help: Offer to go shopping, give someone a ride, help out in your neighbor’s yard, wash someone's car, clean the house, mow the lawn. If you have special skills, offer them for free: financial counsel, repairs, etc. Check out #EvangelismOutreachIdea on Twitter for more ideas!
  • Twitter Text: #EvangelismOutreachIdea: Offer to give someone a ride, help out in your neighbor’s yard, wash someone's car, clean the house, mow the lawn.
• Graphic: “Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.” – Paul Tournier

Day 3

• #EvangelismOutreachIdea: Share sketches, dances, artistic presentations – use creative gifts & ideas to point to the message of Christ.
• Article: "Storytelling and Creative Evangelism Help Bring Gospel Across Europe"
  https://www.cru.org/communities/locations/europe/spain/creative-evangelism.html
• Graphic: “God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to accomplish this task.” – Theodore Epp
• “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.” Mark 16:15
• We want to challenge you to be the multiplying disciple Christ called us to be. So, who will you tell?
• VIDEO: Check out this video that teaches you to do evangelism in 3 steps!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bveX2UoAJyM&feature=youtu.be #goandmake

Day 4

• Graphic: “The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.” – C. S. Lewis
• #EvangelismOutreachIdea: Large Events! Use gospel concerts, street festivals, or church events to build relationships in your community.
• Graphic: “For I will proclaim the Name of the Lord; ascribe greatness to our God.” Deuteronomy 32:3

Day 5

• Graphic: “If you had the cure to cancer wouldn’t you share it? … You have the cure to death … get out there and share it.” – Kirk Cameron
  • Text: “In him was life, and the life was the light of men.” John 1:4
• “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9
• #EvangelismOutreachIdaes: Neighborhood, street & district campaigns. Reach complete areas with strategic home to home, block for block or area specific campaigns to tell people about Jesus!

Day 6

• Article: "Catch the excitement of the Great Commission!"
  https://www.cru.org/train-and-grow/transferable-concepts/help-fulfill-the-great-commission.html
• VIDEO: Hear Cru’s president, Steve Douglass, share how to do Conversational Evangelism
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bveX2UoAJyM&feature=youtu.be #thatvoicethough
• #EvangelismOutreachIdea: Share gospel booklets or books, hand out DVDs with testimonies and healings, & use media to open a conversation!
• Graphic: “The mission of the Church is to seek and to save them that are lost.” – James H. Aughey

Day 7

• #EvangelismOutreachIdea: Flashmob. Start a flashmob that gathers people and then spread out together to talk to the people why you did it. Then send us a video of it!
• “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8
• #EvangelismOutreachIdea: Internet. Link your friends to web platforms that share the gospel, send them video clips, use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, chat with them about what you believe!
• Graphic: “And he said to them, Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.” Mark 16:15