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An Unlikely Gay-Straight Alliance

Campus Crusade launches HIV/AIDS outreach with campus gay-lesbian group.

Amy Green, Religion News Service | posted 1/13/2009 08:14AM

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Back at UCF, Spavin attributes the new interest in social justice issues to a more global world. Internet-savvy young adults read about AIDS and poverty afflicting the world — and they want to do something, Spavin said. Just before Christmas, Spavin's group joined with a gay student group, a pro-marijuana group and fraternities and sororities to gather gifts for underprivileged children. Some 400 shoeboxes of gifts were collected for Samaritan's Purse for distribution worldwide.

"It's not just Christians but young people now — it's almost like they're waking up to the world," Spavin said. "In general, Christianity has, like, a negative connotation to it. People feel like we are putting ourselves on a pedestal and condescending to people, and that's not the love of Christ."

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Posted: January 21, 2009 2:57 AM

"When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 'Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?' He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prohpets." (Matthew 22:34-40, NRSV)

KR	Posted: January 20, 2009 2:28 PM

Kudos to Campus Crusade for going to where the unbelievers are and showing the love of Jesus to them. They understand what Paul is saying in 1 Cor 5:9-10: "I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world." James also speaks to our calling to love the lost where they may be found in James 1:27. God's calling is clear and indisputable: Do not judge the unsaved. That's God's business, not ours. We must go into the world and make disciples and trust the Holy Spirit to give you the power to be a witness and to keep you unspoiled by the world (Acts 1:8) Let's stop wringing our hands over the theoretical Campus Crusader that might smoke dope and focus on the reason we're here. Put on the armor of God and enter the fight!

M.N.	Posted: January 16, 2009 8:18 PM

This article greatly grieves me, but it is a sign of the times and the watered-down 'gospel'. It saddens me on a personal level, because I came to the Lord due to the witness of Campus Crusade back in the early '90's. Over the last decade or so, they have moved away from sound doctrine, and this is the latest "fruit". The world needs to witness of the true Gospel of repentance - it is a narrow road. Instead of trying to find "common ground", they should go back to being salt and light. Jude commends us to warn the wayward and snatch them out of the fire. Vindicating and indirectly condoning homosexuality, which is a sin as surely as alcoholism, drug abuse or eating disorders are, is neither loving nor honest. Just another sad case of Christians abandoning truth and conforming to the (rationalized) evils of this world. WWJS? "Go and sin no more."

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