We had a GREAT time at our "Jesus Wept" event today. We haven't had a chance to debrief what happened yet, but our graffiti wall asking people to write their answers to the questions "What is injustice?", "What breaks your heart?", "How would Jesus respond to injustice?", and "Who is/was Jesus?" got a lot of traffic... by the end of the four hours, most of the boards were covered with thoughts ranging from "Injustice is women being paid less than men" to "My heart breaks for gay bashing" to "Jesus was just another nice Jew" to "If Jesus did exist, he probably wouldn't know what was going on in the world today." It made for some great conversations, and many of us got to share how Jesus really does care about injustice and that His heart breaks for many of the same things that break our hearts. And it was a great way for us to show that, contrary to unfortunate popular belief, followers of Christ should (and if they are true followers, DO) care about injustice in the world!
Our graffiti boards right after we set them up
We also had people be "walking graffiti boards" wearing t-shirts with similar questions and getting people to answer on video
Baptist Campus Ministry used Soularium (one of our cool tools I've talked about in a semi-recent post) to engage people in conversation. They also invited people to help out in a homeless feeding event
Intervarsity set up a board with some graphic images of different forms of injustice and asked people to write the injustices that break their heart on a ribbon and stick it on Jesus. Great for starting conversations
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