Campus Crusade for Christ Drops the "Christ" From Its Name

Another organization has done it!  This time, Campus Crusade for Christ !  In early 2012, the organization will become Cru.  Excuse me, but what is a Cru?

“We felt like our name was getting in the way of accomplishing our mission ... proclaiming Christ around the world. ... We were not trying to eliminate the word Christ from our name. We were looking for a name that would most effectively serve our mission and help us take the gospel to the world. Our mission has not changed. Cru enables us to have discussions about Christ with people who might initially be turned off by a more overtly Christian name. We believe that our interaction and our communication with the world will be what ultimately honors and glorifies Christ.”   Steve Sellers, the vice president for Campus Crusade

These people need to be very careful!  In their search for "relevancy," they are stepping very close to the edge.   We need to be more openly proclaiming Christ, not retreating into a stealth campaign. 

"But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." Matthew 10:33

  

"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."  Matthew 7-20-23. 

UAB Gospel Choir

The UAB Gospel Choir held a fifteenth anniversary reunion concert at the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center in Birmingham, Alabama on Monday evening, 22 November 2010. The UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham)choir is under the direction of Kevin Turner. The choir has released four CD's and has sung with Stevie Wonder,Ruben Studdard, Lee Greenwood, and Taylor Hicks.


Since its creation in 1995, the choir has had over 4500 members. Average membership each semester is 120 to 150. Turner says, "We started with thirty students." Members of the choir study the history of gospel music, biographies of famous gospel performers,and techniques of performance and touring as a group; the academic study of gospel music.


The keyboardist for the group, Rev, Clinton Green, says, "There's not many places you can get a college credit for being in a gospel choir. It's preparing people for ministry." Seventeen other universities have begun gospel choirs on the UAB model.

Canyonview Equestrian College

Canyonview Equestrian College is a co-educational non-profit Christian horsemanship college. The two year program teaches riding, training, stable management, Bible study, and evangelism training. The theological stance of the Oregon-based college is evangelical, pre-millenial, and fundamentalist.

http://www.canyonviewequestriancollege.org/