Nowadays, Islam achieves rapid growth and influence throughout the world. It is not only a religion of the Middle East anymore but it has become a major religion of the entire world. Besides, they are sending the Muslim missionaries to propagate to ma...
Nowadays, Islam achieves rapid growth and influence throughout the world. It is not only a religion of the Middle East anymore but it has become a major religion of the entire world. Besides, they are sending the Muslim missionaries to propagate to many countries all over the world continually.
Indonesia is the largest Islamic country because there are two hundred million Muslims among the whole world's Muslim population of twelve hundred million. For this reason, Indonesia is the main object of evangelism and prayer for us as Christians.
We know that a missionary can't evangelize to all of the people in the country, so that we must help and cooperate with local people, particularly, university students because they are quite within the realms of possibility to lead their country.
This study includes effective missions methods for Indonesian university students with a focus on Satya Wacana Christian University. Satya Wacana Christian University is located in Salatiga, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia. This university, since its founding in 1956, has participated in the Christian community through Christian education based on the motto of Proverbs 1:7.
For effective Indonesia missions, on the assumption that university students are effective, this study explains the concept of their fellow countrymen missions and limits, then deals with the necessity of university student missions. It explains the historical background of world university missions movements and tries to find the cause of revival and decline. After that, studies have found out the historical background of the Korean university missions movement and tries to find the cause of revival and decline there too. It became one standard to reevaluate missions and its history in Indonesia.
While studying the history of Indonesia university missions, the status of university students was explained through the Indonesian thesis. The Christian university movement in Indonesian universities and the problems of it were explained. After this, Christian circles on the campus of Satya Wacana Christian University, its general situation and part of the lack of activities were discovered. Based on experience of studying and associating with the Indonesian university at Satya Wacana Christian University, I suggested that effective missions methods for Indonesian university students are to evangelize through the Korean culture including teaching Korean, Korean cafe, Christian education and culture, and boarding houses("Kost"), etc.
In conclusion, it is said that if we want to do missionary work successfully, there are four things to consider. First, all christians should have humbleness as Jesus.
Second, Christians have to be evangelizing while living like Jesus Christ. Moreover, missionaries should understand and know local people's culture and situation. It helps to evangelize them and it is the first step to lead them to becoming desirable Christian leaders.
Third, Missionaries cooperate with another missionaries because it is hard to do missionary work alone. Other missionaries aren't competitors but cooperators. Namely, for producing good results, cooperative work is most important of all. It is so important that we work together with local churches and missions parties to do missionary work in the university setting.
Lastly, we have to pray and correctly understand how to do missionary work for university students, especially, Satya Wacana Christian University students', therefore, we expect that many faithful and well-trained Christian students will become leaders with the love of Jesus for all of Indonesia.