Posted on 10/11/2024 3:53:21 AM PDT by Morgana
Back in May, Evangelical Dark Web, Protestia, and Jon Harris of Conversations The Matter exposed the gay-affirming curriculum of Cru, the most prominent campus evangelism organization. Cru was heavily influenced by Preston Sprinkle of the Center For Faith Sexuality and Gender, as well as other people in the Side B Theology movement. The curriculum is characterized by its effeminate language push, villainizing the church, affirming transgenderism, and promoting a gay seeker-friendly model. Side B Theology asserts that homosexual and transvestite identities and desires are not sin.
The exposure of this nonsense was not without retaliation. Preston Sprinkle unsuccessfully went after Protestia who published a leaked montage in its entirety. Cru fired whistleblowers Uriah and Marissa Mundell over their public objection to this theology.
But after nearly five months of the word being out about their gay-affirming curriculum, it seems that Cru has ended their “Compassionate and Faithful” training series. World Magazine writes:
One of the nation’s leading evangelical ministries is discontinuing its controversial staff training on sexuality and gender less than two years after launching it. Cru employees will no longer have access to the Compassionate and Faithful curriculum by the end of this year, according to a leaked recording of a Sept. 26 meeting for U.S.-based staff.
“Our plan going forward is to integrate our LGBT+ equipping into existing developmental venues,” Keith Johnson, Cru’s director of theological education and development, told staff during the meeting leaked on a podcast last week. “Going forward, we think it’s increasingly important for us to speak in our own theological voice.” That means Cru will rely less on “external communicators,” Johnson said.
It seems there is no real plan on establishing or maintaining biblical sexual ethics for Cru leaders. World then details the backlash that the curriculum received from prominent ex-gay Christians.
On Oct. 2, author and commentator Jon Harris released portions of the late September virtual meeting on his podcast, Conversations That Matter. A former Cru staffer who attended the meeting sent the recording to Harris. I spoke with the former staffer, who asked to remain anonymous due to ongoing interaction with current Cru staff.
During the meeting and in a follow-up email to WORLD, Johnson referred to the Compassionate and Faithful materials as a “learning experience,” not a curriculum. Since most staff had completed the training, Johnson told me it made sense to incorporate future training on sexuality and gender issues into Cru’s Institute of Biblical Studies for incoming staff and interns. The Compassionate and Faithful materials were designed to “provide clarity” and “align all our staff to a historic Biblical understanding of sexuality,” Johnson said.
Cru makes it clear that they are not repentant of pushing gay-affirming heresy.
During the Sept. 26 meeting, Johnson and Mark Gauthier, Cru’s vice president and U.S. national director, referenced recent public criticism. “We hold dearly … the calling to communicate the gospel to everybody,” Gauthier said. “That puts us in a situation over the years where we open up to criticism and critique … what we’ve gone through, it’s been significant over the last few years.”
But Gauthier and Johnson stopped short of admitting error or stating that public criticism influenced Cru’s decision to scrap its Compassionate and Faithful curriculum and pivot away from using outside presenters to instruct staff.
“What divides us from many of our critics at the end of the day, isn’t our view of sexuality and gender,” Johnson said. “It’s our vision for cultural engagement.” He added that when Cru is at its best, it has a “Jesus first” approach to cultural engagement.
Cru’s lack of repentance and restoration of the fired whistleblowers is a reason to distrust their motives in ending the curriculum. While Cru refused to specific that the revelations of being gay-affirming harmed donations, it’s clear that this was an effort to cover their tracks to their donor class.
...what...on...earth...is this all about...?
Wouldn’t it just be easier for all of these people simply to be (authentically) Catholic?
Secret meetings are not Christ like.
Translation from Kamalaharrisese: "We're not letting outsiders push perversion for us ... we'll be doing it ourselves."
Very sad decline of Cru.
It was a solid Christian ministry for decades.
No more.
Like Catholicism and so much of Protestantism. It has beaded from the Scriptural basis and standard.
Look at the Vatican and the Pope...that’s Catholic in name only. It’s a pedophile protection agency.
They're still on board, they're just going to control it better.
Thanks, but no thanks!
“Cru Ends Gay Affirming Curriculum Amid Backlash”
Good, but it also shows how THOROUGH the Left is when they penetrate institutions, even Christians aren’t safe from them.
And the KEY THING to remember is that it all started in our schools - once they got control of them, then it was only a matter of time before they could get control of adult institutions (since the adults are now indoctrinated).
I'm familiar with groups like Varsity Christian Fellowship, but I never heard of that group. By the way, What's a Cru?
Originally known as Campus Crusade for Christ, this organization has shed two offensive words from its title.
See also Bill Bright and “Four Spiritual Laws.”
It's a safe bet that the two offensive words were not "campus" and "for."
Cru is the former Campus Crusade For Christ.
For unknown reasons, they changed their name to Cru.
Perhaps they got caught up in political correctness and that the word “crusade” offends Muslims and liberals.
Perhaps they felt the same way that they don’t wanna offend anyone with the mention of Christ.
So sad. I came to Christ through Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC then), and joined staff after graduating from college, was on staff for year and a half.
In ‘68, the true leader of CCC then was Jon Braun - most powerful speaker I’ve ever heard - and I’ve heard them all after ‘66. He was forced to resign because there was a movement of small groups on the campuses (campi?) that started acting like little churches, and it was a threat to the survival of CCC as now local churches started losing CCC students and threatened to cut off support for CCC - “now you are competing with us...”
After Braun, all the top 10 leaders & Bible teachers (Hal Lindsay one of them) were forced to resign, one-by-one, over 6 months. I was the assistant of one of those men. Dr. Bright personally forced me to resign in Dec. ‘68 because on his interrogation of me, I admitted that I might join these men in the distant future.
Many of these men went on to form a new denomination (as Gene Edwards told them they would do in Jan. ‘69 - I was there) and I left them in ‘71 before that started happening, but I watched it from a distance.
I still thank the Lord for the foundation of “Christ Jesus and Him crucified” that was laid in my heart by the great leaders and Bible teachers of CCC in the mid/late ‘60’s. It and the grace of God have kept me Christ-centered ever since.....
“...and the grace of God have kept me Christ-centered ever since.....”
Amen, Bro.
“..My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand....”
One of the nation’s leading evangelical ministries is discontinuing its controversial staff training on sexuality and gender less than two years after launching it. Cru employees will no longer have access to the Compassionate and Faithful curriculum by the end of this year, according to a leaked recording of a Sept. 26 meeting for U.S.-based staff.“Our plan going forward is to integrate our LGBT+ equipping into existing developmental venues,” Keith Johnson, Cru’s director of theological education and development, told staff during the meeting leaked on a podcast last week. “Going forward, we think it’s increasingly important for us to speak in our own theological voice.” That means Cru will rely less on “external communicators,” Johnson said.
That doesn't sound good.
One of the folks our congregation supports was affiliated with Cru. He moved on to some other group about the time this was all coming out. I do not recall what.
Mega dittos
If they changed their name, they are not very stalwart Crusaders.
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