CRU Update

Do you have a friend who is perfect? Do you think they would ever die for you?

Continuing with our big questions topic in CRU group, Rev. Benn spoke on Jesus’ death. He importantly started with the fact that God is holy, perfect and just, which means that He cannot look upon sin. This means that when we’ve disobeyed God, we cannot be in a relationship with Him. We looked at the sacrificial system in the Old Testament and how innocent blood had to be shed for forgiveness. This was all pointing to Jesus’ sacrifice. God loved the world so much that He had a plan to send His only Son to Earth to die on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins so that we can be forgiven, have a relationship with God and have eternal life because He was raised from the dead. This is only possible because Jesus is perfect, so He could take our place so that we are made perfect in God’s eyes. He is the only name under heaven by which we can be saved since no one else obeys God without failing. By believing in Jesus, we have eternal life waiting! If you want to find out more about this, come along next week to hear about Christian identity!

Shore and Roseville College CRU
For the first time ever, we had a Shore and Roseville College CRU meeting on Friday afternoon at the Roseville campus. After starting with some fun games such as human bingo and a version of numbered one-on-one hockey, we looked at some things that people find happiness from in life. Reading 1 Peter 1:3-9, we heard from Ruby that Christ should be where we find joy, and even though we haven’t seen Him in the flesh, we can know and love Jesus just as He knows and loves us. Since He died for us, we have a living hope for the inheritance to come that cannot fade, and this is certainly a reason to rejoice. We look forward to more of these events in the future. Next week, we will be catching the train into St Andrew’s for a ‘Mega CRU’ where we will be gathering with CRU groups from all around our area, hearing another great talk, praying for each other and of course, eating food and having lots of fun. It would be great to see many Shore boys there.

Daniel Becker
9 TY4