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I LOVE Mike Adams’ columns and I HATE what the abortion mills are doing to our culture. But I’ve gotta interject and say that I disagree with him on this column.

Mike expresses a number of complaints about Cru:
1) He’s upset that they changed their name from Campus Crusade for Christ.
2) He’s frustrated that Cru doesn’t publish a position on specifically abortion.
3) He’s angry that friend speaking on abortion was interrupted in a message he was delivering.
I suspect item #3 prompted him to vent on #1 & #2.

I’m a big believer that we Christ followers are under attack in a spiritual war against Satan. Unfortunately I think that Mike’s well intended attack on this truly outstanding organization is doing damage that favors the wrong side. There’s evidence from comments on this Freeper forum that this column has damaged their reputation. Mike needs to reread 1 Peter 3:15 (look it up or see below).

Cru, formally known as Campus Crusade for Christ is an outstanding “parachurch” organization meaning that they are “Christian faith-based organizations that work outside of and across denominations to engage in social welfare and evangelism, usually independent of church oversight.” (from Bablyon dictionary). Their mission: “Cru is a caring community passionate about connecting people to Jesus Christ.” Their doctrine is rock solid (check it out at http://www.cru.org/about/statement-of-faith.html )

I don’t know why Cru doesn’t put out public statements directly dealing with abortion. Perhaps they feel that doing so gives the enemy an easy way to create attacks (via blogs, advertisements, leaflets on campus, etc) that will put up barriers to reaching the very souls that Cru is targeting. But creating the strategy on how Cru should “connect people to Jesus Christ” is up to them. If Cru thinks that coming out strong against abortion on their website and in their all campus meetings loses more souls than it saves then that’s their issue, not Mike’s. But this doesn’t mean that they’re not dealing with the issue. I have personally been asked by Cru members to pray for those in the trenches on campus dealing with specific cases for college girls considering abortion.

As for my first hand experience with Cru — my son went to UIUC. Despite a Christian upbringing he was not an authentic Christ follower. Long story short, our family went some very dark times but God chose to use Cru as His tool to reach him. During his senior year he became a small group leader for Cru & is totally on fire for Christ. My daughter is at the same school now and Cru is essential to her keeping her walking with Christ. You can watch both of their testimonials along with those of well over 100 other students here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/my2words

Obviously I can’t speak for Cru at other campuses but I know first-hand that they are doing God’s work and they’re doing it extremely well.

BTW - I’m VERY anti-PC. Political Correctness is a tool of Satan. I graduated from Illinois in Champaign and I grieve the loss of Chief Illinwek. I’d much prefer the name Campus Crusade for Christ over Cru especially given the Islam attack on western civilization. But, oh well, what’s the best approach for God’s war? To focus on hearts & souls for Christ and to not be distracted by petty arguments.

“But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,” 1 Peter 3:15