There is a movement on university campuses throughout the world which needs to be exposed. It is called, Campus Crusade for Christ.

What Is Campus Crusade for Christ?

The campus ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ is part of a family of 60 ministries under Campus Crusade for Christ International based in Orlando, Florida. Founded at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1951 by Bill and Vonette Bright, the underlying concept of Campus Crusade for Christ is to “win the campus today and change the world tomorrow.” Campus Crusade serves as a network of more than 1000 movements on university campuses in the United States and approximately 220 campuses overseas.

Campus Crusade has movements on more than 100 college campuses throughout Indiana, including Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana-Wabash Valley, Indiana State University, and Harrison College – Terre Haute Campus.

Campus Crusade looks “for the ‘catalyst’ on a specific campus – a key student, a church partnership, a professor – who can help launch and lead the ministry.”

Campus Crusade’s goal is “to take the gospel to the 110 million university students in the world.”

Campus Crusade for Christ Does Not Bring the Gospel Plan of Salvation!

1. The Four Spiritual Laws. One year after founding Campus Crusade for Christ, Bill Bright wrote The Four Spiritual Laws – likely one of the most widely distributed religious booklets in history, with approximately 2.5 billion printed to date. The booklet ends with this explanation of how you can receive Christ:

You can receive Christ right now by faith through prayer: (Prayer is talking to God)

God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart. The following is a suggested prayer:

“Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person Yo u want me to be.”

Does this prayer express the desire of your heart? If it does, I invite you to pray this prayer right now and Christ will come into your life, as He promised.

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Where does the Bible teach that Christ is received by faith through prayer? Where was a non-Christian in the New Testament ever told to pray a suggested prayer like this in order to accept Christ and have his sins forgiven? Does anyone have a Scripture for this?

When folks in New Testament days asked, “What shall we do?” (Acts 2:37), they were not told to pray a prayer as suggested. Rather they were told, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38).

2. Campus Crusade’s Statement of Faith. Article 8 of Campus Crusade’s Statement of Faith states: “The salvation of man is wholly a work of God’s free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works or goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies them in His sight.”

This statement is contradictory. If salvation is wholly of God’s grace, then it cannot be true that God imputes His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ. The word “wholly” means “1. Completely, totally, or entirely. 2. Without exception; exclusively” (World English Dictionary). If God imputes His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ, then salvation cannot be wholly (entirely or exclusively) of grace!

If the salvation of man is wholly a work of God’s free grace, then ALL men will be saved whether they put their faith in Christ or not. “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men” (Tit. 2:11).

If it’s true that salvation is not the work, in whole or in part, of humans, then man is saved without faith. Faith is a work (John 6:29).

The statement that salvation is not the work, in whole or in part, of humans is patently false! The Bible says, “Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only” (James 2:24).

Paul wrote, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed” (Gal. 1:6-9). We plead with you to submit to the original and pure gospel plan of salvation taught in the Bible and not put your trust in a perverted plan brought by man.