Fall of the Student Christian Movement
Steve Addison’s seven lessons from the rise and fall of the Student Christian Movement
- Drift to secularism
- Failure of Gospel nerve
- Powerless to mobilize
- Treated with indifference
- Hijacked agenda
- External life support
- God is faithful
OnMovements.com comments on the post and adds Campus Crusade for Christ as another movement in this genre that proved unfaithful. I’m not sure I’d say Crusade is unfaithful. I see it more as a blindness to the systems story that really drives our organization. So we continue to reorg, try harder, create new strategies on an order that is insufficient to create the change that is truly necessary.
Crusade knows it is facing a challenge and is trying hard to figure it out. It’s hard for me to say it has been unfaithful because you have to apply a moral judgment to their blindness. Perhaps there is a moral obligation upon leadership to lead through these challenges. I only know that it is sad to watch.