It's important to seek to influence our world for Christ because the campus environment continually tests students' faith, if they have any at all. As professors, we affect so many more lives than most people do. Others in my church talk of their influence in a small office or neighborhood, but I have relationships with 100 students a semester, plus faculty. These students are the teachers, lawyers, business executives, and leaders of tomorrow. If we can reach them for Christ, they can in turn reach many others.
University students are at an age when they are beginning to think more on their own.
It is important to confront them with Biblical truth at that time in their lives. Our living testimony is also encouraging to Christian students. Whenever I speak about my faith at the beginning of the semester, I can see their faces light up. I've heard many Christian professors say their witness is in their church. But my thinking is while others can do the job in our churches, only we can affect the lives of those in our spheres of influence on campus.