Wondering what kind of view you all hold on the parachurch organizations, especially campus and college ministries like InterVarsity, Campus Crusade, Navigators.
My working philosophy right now is that a church is marked by teaching, sacraments, and baptism. (Teaching including preaching and Bible studies.) Of course we would get bent out of shape if Campus Crusade started offering communion, but what about when they teach?
My church has recently decided to send some members to serve in local parachurch orgainzations, but we're not trying to recruit students, we're just trying to encourage the Universal Church in my city. My concern is that when we teach all of God's Word to students, we build a strong foundation for them to persevere and serve. When we join the paras, we lose our theological distinctives, and end up teaching the students the 4 spiritual laws.
By opposing my church's "service" to the parachurch, am I opposing the work of the Spirit, or am I contending for the truth? Please help me as I struggle to hold fast to my conscience yet live in submission to my church and her mission.
Yours,
JK
PCA
Cambridge MA
My working philosophy right now is that a church is marked by teaching, sacraments, and baptism. (Teaching including preaching and Bible studies.) Of course we would get bent out of shape if Campus Crusade started offering communion, but what about when they teach?
My church has recently decided to send some members to serve in local parachurch orgainzations, but we're not trying to recruit students, we're just trying to encourage the Universal Church in my city. My concern is that when we teach all of God's Word to students, we build a strong foundation for them to persevere and serve. When we join the paras, we lose our theological distinctives, and end up teaching the students the 4 spiritual laws.
By opposing my church's "service" to the parachurch, am I opposing the work of the Spirit, or am I contending for the truth? Please help me as I struggle to hold fast to my conscience yet live in submission to my church and her mission.
Yours,
JK
PCA
Cambridge MA