In God’s grace, the ‘Who is Jesus?’ course was able to run face-to-face before transitioning online, allowing students and staff to meet and build relationships that could be continued through video.

As part of the Year of Evangelism, the EU is running a ‘Who is Jesus?’ course exploring the historical Jesus. Staff had been asked by students to run these courses every single hour of every day throughout the first three weeks of semester. The course is a simple look at the fundamentals of Jesus’ life, His teaching, His death and resurrection. It is a course designed to drive to the heart of people’s claims about truth in a way that is easily accessible to all – even those who have never heard the gospel before. It aims to help those who are curious to investigate Jesus to see, with clarity, that Jesus is Lord.
In my mind, the course was for those who don’t know Jesus yet. The great irony was that I needed to reflect on how big Jesus was for myself too.

As I sat at café Parma at 8am on a Monday morning having prepared to run this course, I couldn’t help but feel disappointed when no one showed up, and quickly disappointment turned to disbelief that anyone would ever want to hear about Jesus. In my second hour, again, no one, and my thoughts only hardened.

My view of Jesus was far too small. But thankfully, Jesus’ wasn’t.

In God’s grace, over the first three weeks, God has given me the opportunity to run the course three times with four different people, often in hours where I wasn’t meant to be running the course at all. The moments of joy that have come with running the course have been indescribable; from the nominal Catholic or Agnostic who seems interested, to the Buddhist student exclaiming that Jesus seems much greater than the demands and pressures of Buddhism, to the sceptic who travels through life with low expectations in every relationship for fear of being hurt.
For all of these students, Jesus is the answer to everything that is missing in their lives. I have been privileged to see first-hand Jesus’ power to save and to change hearts, but most importantly I have felt my own heart grow in love and appreciation for Jesus’ Lordship!
Jesus is not small, Jesus is Lord!