Daniel_Cheung
10-31-2009, 10:05 AM
Protestant debate on justification is reigniting questions about Rome
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/november/10.19.html
An InterVarsity Christian Fellowship chapter can look very different in the fall than it did the previous spring. But the chapter at George Washington University (GWU) in the nation's capital is dealing with change of a more uncomfortable kind than absent graduates and incoming freshmen.
Shortly before students left for summer vacation, the D.C. chapter split when all ten student leaders resigned to form a new campus ministry called University Christian Fellowship. More than half of the chapter's roughly 100 students joined them. At issue was student leaders' worry that the national ministry confuses the gospel by cooperating with Roman Catholics, and has a mission statement that Catholics could sign without violating church teaching on the doctrine of justification--how sinners are declared righteous before God....
Alec Hill Responds
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/octoberweb-only/143-41.0.html
I appreciate the opportunity to respond to Christianity Today's article, "Not All Evangelicals and Catholics Together." In particular, I want to address the concern--raised by a relatively small group of fellow believers--that Intervarsity may have watered down its view of justification in order to become more inclusive. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Since 1941, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA has been bringing the Gospel to campuses across America. Our 859 chapters reach out to non-believing students and faculty, develop leaders and equip graduates to pursue God's purposes in the world.
Our purpose has remained unaltered for seven decades. InterVarsity has always been, and will continue to be, unapologetically both evangelical and transdenominational. Our vision is to call students and professors from every church tradition--and those with no faith background at all--to be transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ....
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/november/10.19.html
An InterVarsity Christian Fellowship chapter can look very different in the fall than it did the previous spring. But the chapter at George Washington University (GWU) in the nation's capital is dealing with change of a more uncomfortable kind than absent graduates and incoming freshmen.
Shortly before students left for summer vacation, the D.C. chapter split when all ten student leaders resigned to form a new campus ministry called University Christian Fellowship. More than half of the chapter's roughly 100 students joined them. At issue was student leaders' worry that the national ministry confuses the gospel by cooperating with Roman Catholics, and has a mission statement that Catholics could sign without violating church teaching on the doctrine of justification--how sinners are declared righteous before God....
Alec Hill Responds
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/octoberweb-only/143-41.0.html
I appreciate the opportunity to respond to Christianity Today's article, "Not All Evangelicals and Catholics Together." In particular, I want to address the concern--raised by a relatively small group of fellow believers--that Intervarsity may have watered down its view of justification in order to become more inclusive. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Since 1941, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA has been bringing the Gospel to campuses across America. Our 859 chapters reach out to non-believing students and faculty, develop leaders and equip graduates to pursue God's purposes in the world.
Our purpose has remained unaltered for seven decades. InterVarsity has always been, and will continue to be, unapologetically both evangelical and transdenominational. Our vision is to call students and professors from every church tradition--and those with no faith background at all--to be transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ....