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Evotional

updated 8/20

               Every couple weeks, a new “evotional” will appear here.  Check in from

               time to time for a thought, a prayer, a reflection, a devotion… 

 

 

AUSTIN AGAPE - What's in a name?

We’ve changed our name. UPC’s campus ministry, that is—we’ve changed our name. We used to call ourselves “Presbyterian Campus Ministry.” Exciting, isn’t it? OK, maybe not. But that old name was sure... um... precise! Still, you have to admit that there wasn’t much chance of anybody mistaking us for anything else, right?

 

Here’s the thing, though—we got tired of “Presbyterian Campus Ministry.”  Sure, it was hard to mistake us for something else, but it seemed so institutional and, to tell you the truth, it looks downright boring on a T-shirt.  Our new name says a lot about who we are and who we aim to be...

 

        AUSTIN AGAPE

 

“Agape” is a Greek word and it means “love.”  Actually, it means more than love.  Once somebody asked Jesus what the greatest commandment was.  His response went like this:

 

 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.  This is the greatest and first commandment.  And a second is like it:  You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 

- Matthew 22:37-39

 

“Austin” is, well, where we happen to find ourselves.  Calling ourselves “Austin Agape” is another way of saying, “Right here and right now, we’re going to love God and God’s people!” 

 

As this school year gets under way, our hope is that we might all be open to acting on behalf of God’s love at work in our lives—open to ways that our hearts, souls, and minds might be opened to God’s love in new ways—open to ways that we might embody that same love for our neighbors.

 

 
     

 

         203 San Antonio St.

         Austin, TX  78705

         (512) 476-5321

         upccampus@upcaustin.org

 

 

 

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