As our nation’s college campus’ grow increasingly diverse and decreasingly “Christian,” attractional models of ministry are having a much more difficult time making a significant dent in the 85%+ of college students that are unchurched, de-churched, or altogether unreached.
There is a growing consensus among university pastors that we have inherited a model of ministry that is simply no longer (if it was ever) effective in reaching the 80% of students on campuses that are unchurched and don’t know Jesus. I’ve hesitated to write this post for a few days now because of the implications that it might have on the future of our university ministry. But I can’t NOT write it. My heart is full of “what if’s?”