Word: ccc
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...basis of what we've seen and heard, we can assume hundreds of millions." Along with Graham, says Timothy George, dean of Beeson Divinity School, Bright led evangelicals out of self-imposed isolation into their current rich (if bittersweet) engagement with the secular world. A tally of CCC grads among today's evangelical leaders, he adds, would be "enormous...
...offers a wonderful plan for your life./Man is sinful and separated from God, thus cannot know and experience God's love and plan./Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin./We must individually receive Jesus as Savior and Lord.") Armed with this "spiritual pitch," CCC recruits could not only consolidate their faith but purvey it one-on-one like Amway. Once converted, more subtle souls often moved past the Laws. But, explains Tommy Oaks, an itinerant evangelist who has observed CCC on dozens of campuses, "Bright's like the guy who invented the crescent wrench...
...everyone approves of Bright's reductivism, which historian Mark Noll once said led to an evangelical environment that is "naive, inept or tendentious." Columbia University religion professor Randall Balmer contends that the Laws "flatten the Gospel," while CCC's culture cramps "faith into a dualism between saved and damned, right and wrong, moral and immoral." Immoral often meant liberal: Bright helped lay the groundwork for the religious right. Of his stylistic critics, he notes "Jesus had to be simple so the masses would hear him gladly...