Vision: The 'Why'
Seek is the fluid movement of God bringing together all His children for the sole purpose of serving our Lord Jesus Christ. It is a response to a distinct call of the LORD and is evidenced in revival and in lives transformed by the Holy Spirit. As the body of God continues to grow, together we will SEEK to live in the light God gave to us in the person of Jesus Christ. Arm in arm we promise to walk beside Him in the newness of Eternal Life.
All throughout scripture and history, we find this pattern of whole peoples gathering together in unison to beckon God's presence and His mercy on the land. As the Spirit draws us and we seek the Lord with hunger, we begin to experience the transformational work of the Spirit. Only the Lord can unite people from different backgrounds and different views and give them the same heart-cry and vision for our campus. Much of what Seek does is driven from understanding that our dreams for our campuses are often God-dreamt dreams that He chooses, in His grace, to reveal to His very own children. It excites us to know that we get glimpses into the dreams that the Father dreams. Even moreso, it excites us to know that we are this living manifestation of His imagination and the fruition of the prayers sent before us.
When we stand together, with His Spirit pouring into us and through us to the world, we believe we have power from Christ to see mountains move and dividing walls fall. We long to imitate the early church and experience that kind of revival and newness for our generation. Seek exists because it is convinced that with the united persistent cry of the Christ followers at UVA, we could move God to come and to move here in our city (Luke 18).
Seek longs for the kingdom of God on earth, on our campus, in our living spaces, as it is in Heaven. So with our Seek semesterly event and weekly prayer meetings, it is our hope for us all to encounter God personally and corporately. With that, we hope that in these settings we learn better of what it actually means to worship and to pray- we'll admit we do not know how to do it well, even after years of doing this thing.
