{"id":1215,"date":"2009-04-09T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T18:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/04\/09\/further-to-my-cc4c-post\/"},"modified":"2009-04-09T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T18:23:30","slug":"further-to-my-cc4c-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/04\/09\/further-to-my-cc4c-post\/","title":{"rendered":"further to my cc4c post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/04\/07\/on-the-influence-of-bill-bright-and-cc4c\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post<\/a> re: the Christian Century review of Bill Bright\u2019s biography was picked up by Greg Linscott in the filings section of SI. (Thanks, Greg.) A <a href=\"http:\/\/sharperiron.org\/showthread.php?t=9634\" target=\"_blank\">bit of ensuing discussion followed<\/a>, where one commenter was somewhat defensive of Bright and Campus Crusade, due to personal experiences.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it might be worth clarifying the point somewhat.<\/p>\n<p>I am not suggesting that Campus Crusade is\/was the incarnation of evil! Nor would I suggest that local churches couldn\u2019t learn a thing or two from their methodology, especially regarding discipleship (although one has to wonder how a local church can perform one-on-one discipleship functions when its best and brightest are siphoned off to parachurch organizations).<\/p>\n<p>However, when criticism is made of parachurch organizations and their impact on local church ministry, it is Campus Crusade that historically spawned this criticism by its philosophy of ministry. It is important to note that the article I originally linked to, the liberal Christian Century review, also noticed that fact. Remember, it was Christian Century that said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Despite the merits of helping irreligious students to become intentional followers of Christ, Crusade\u2019s way of doing campus-based church altered young adults\u2019 understandings in such a way that the older denominational congregations now appeared backward and culturally in accessible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s not me\u2026 that\u2019s Christian Century, a <em>liberal<\/em> rag. If the liberals can see it, clearly those who are conservative should see it also, only more so.<\/p>\n<p>Thank the Lord for the spiritual benefits in individual lives, to be sure, but it is to the <em>church<\/em> and to <em>preaching<\/em> that God really assigned the task of evangelism and discipleship. The free-agent mentality that exists across the breadth of evangelicalism and fundamentalism is partly attributable to Campus Crusade and its powerful influence. I don\u2019t think we can deny that when liberals notice it also.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/don-sig27.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"don_sig2\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/don-sig2-thumb1.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My earlier post re: the Christian Century review of Bill Bright\u2019s biography was picked up by Greg Linscott in the filings section of SI. (Thanks, Greg.) A bit of ensuing discussion followed, where one commenter was somewhat defensive of Bright and Campus Crusade, due to personal experiences. I thought it might be worth clarifying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[71,77],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-jB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}