“What I want to really create is a sense of urgency that God has called us into something extraordinary,” says Pastor, Erwin McManus.  This is the driving motivation behind the Student Life Tour 2006.  McManus continues: “We’re really all chasing daylight.  While it is day we need to be working.  While it is day we need to be doing something.  While it is day we need to be touching people’s lives… and fulfilling the mission of Christ because night is coming when no man will work.”  This is not just a challenge or a calling or a command.  This is a way of life, a way of living not in the future but right now. 

At the Student Life Tour we will examine three aspects of what it means to live as one who is chasing daylight.  We must be willing to not be paralyzed about what we should do but rather simply take the initiative to do something, seeking to honor God and fulfill His will for the world.  As we do so with integrity we become people who might influence others to come to a better understanding for themselves of God and His work, with them and through them.  However, living this life is not always safe or convenient.  Very few things are for certain, but what we do know is certain is powerful. When we chase daylight we do not begin to live risk-free, but instead become free to risk.

These truths will be presented in a number of different ways.  Erwin McManus will speak three different times throughout the weekend, once on influence, once on initiative and once on risk.  Charlie Hall will also be leading in worship including some songs from his new album appropriately titled Flying Into Daybreak.  All Things To All People will be debuting a new drama taking the themes of 1 Samuel 14, the scriptural story supporting the tour, and placing them in a modern high school context.  Most importantly, though, each of these is excited to see what God has in store for each and every participant as we seek to chase after Him.

(Taken from Studentlifetour.com)