Okay, maybe the title is a little misleading. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m a professor or anything.<\/p>\n
I did get to give a lecture, though. Let me tell you about it\u2026<\/p>\n
Jimmy Lim<\/a>, a grad student who helps lead worship for Chi Alpha @ Stanford<\/a> is taking a class called Voluntary Social Systems. The class basically seeks to describe a maximally free society, one in which all laws flow from the maxim that \u201cpeaceful, honest people have a right to be left alone.\u201d<\/p>\n Anyway, each student who is taking the class for full credit is required to bring in an outside speaker, and Jimmy chose me!<\/p>\n It was really an astounding opportunity\u2013I was able to talk about \u201cReligion and the Maxim Society\u201d to a group of mostly unbelieving grad students. In fact, I think the bulk of the students were atheists. <\/p>\n In case you\u2019re wondering, the lecture went really well (at least, that\u2019s my take on things). They applauded when I was done and we had a wonderful time of question and answer. I was able to talk very forthrightly about my faith in God, the centrality of religion to human experience, and to present the gospel in a highly contextualized manner.<\/p>\n Woohoo!<\/p>\n Please pray that these students (and the professor, Ron Howard) would become sensitive to God\u2019s presence in their lives. Pray also that Jimmy and Lynn (the other Chi Alpha student in the class) would have opportunities to talk with their classmates about spiritual things.<\/p>\n Also, please pray for more cool opportunities to share the gospel at Stanford!<\/p>\n