Tag Archives: Mission

A Christmas Reflection: Incarnation, Mission, and Worldview

Here’s a completely different kind of Christmas reflection for you: my BreakPoint column, Incarnation, Mission, and Worldview. It begins, It was about a dozen years ago that our church’s pastor came back from a pastors’ conference and told us our denomination was growing rapidly everywhere in the world except North America. We were shrinking here, …

December 22, 2011 – 3:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Service, The Faith, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

A Few More Thoughts on “Cru”

A week and a half has passed since Campus Crusade for Christ announced it is changing its name to Cru. There has been a lot of support expressed for the change, for which we in Campus Crusade/Cru are grateful. The criticisms seem to be of four general kinds: That Christ is dishonored by our removing …

July 28, 2011 – 10:33 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Is Campus Crusade Falling Away From Christ?

Update: See also It’s Not About Us I am a long-term staff member with Campus Crusade for Christ who has believed that it was time for a change in our movement’s name. Last Monday the announcement was made that our U.S. ministries would become “Cru.” In this article I am speaking for myself and not …

July 22, 2011 – 10:36 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Bible, Service, The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (32)

The Hole In My Mission

Book Review As if the Sermon on the Mount and the Prophets weren’t disturbing enough, now I’ve gone and read Richard Stearns’s 2009 book, The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World. I don’t know whether to recommend you read …

March 19, 2010 – 9:48 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Service | Tagged , , | Comments (6)

Christianity in China

Christianity in China: Official numbers fall far short of the actual total. Recent surveys calculate the number of Christians worshipping independently of the State churches in China to be as high as 100 million. That means that almost one in every ten Chinese may now be a Christian, making Christianity bigger than the 74 million-member …

March 28, 2009 – 1:05 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (2)

The Present Future: Six Tough Questions For the Church

Book Review A counselor once told me he had just one problem with a particular book: “I wish I had written it myself,” he said. He meant that in that book, the author had expressed all of his own most crucial beliefs about personal growth. I’ve never felt that way about a book before. Usually …

August 18, 2008 – 7:31 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments (2)