CRU Update

What is the best news you have ever heard? Maybe you’re thinking about a test result or finding out you are in a certain sports team. The best answer was revealed at CRU last week.

If you don’t fully understand Christianity, this term at CRU is for you. We are going through a course called Christianity Explored to discover what Christianity is about. This week, Rev. Benn gave a quick introduction before we listened to a soundtrack outlining the faith’s basic foundations. After this, we divided into groups and discussed what we had learnt, asking questions to understand Christianity better. 

A main idea we looked at this week was the misunderstanding of what Christianity revolves around. We heard that some people think Christianity is about going to church or following rules. Some other answers you might hear include it being restrictive, something to solve all our problems or something that should not exist. 

But after reading Mark 1:1, we saw that the heart of Christianity is all about Jesus. Christianity is all about the good news that Jesus is the Messiah who came to die for the forgiveness of our sins before rising again, now offering us eternal life. Even though we are sinful and deserving of death and God’s righteous judgement, God loved us so much that He sent His only Son to die in our place so that we can have eternal life by trusting in Him.

If you are interested in any of these topics, come along next Friday lunchtime to the Christian Studies space in the Grant Centre to dig deeper into what Christians believe.

Daniel Becker
10 TY4