{"id":4661,"date":"2011-07-22T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2011-07-22T18:58:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T22:58:45","slug":"author-why-drop-christ-from-campus-outreachs-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/07\/author-why-drop-christ-from-campus-outreachs-name","title":{"rendered":"Author: Why drop &#8220;Christ&#8221; from campus outreach&#8217;s name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beliefnet&#8217;s Robert Mims, a longtime\u00a0Christian author and former Associated Press reporter, is puzzled that Campus Crusade for Christ would change its name to &#8220;Cru.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his column, he muses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems having\u201cJesus\u201d or \u201cChrist\u201d or even \u201cChristian\u201d on the signs of churches or logos of ministries \u2013 even long-established ones dedicated to spreading the gospel \u2013 has become pass\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Even evangelical and fundamentalist congregations have been jettisoning those reminders of the founder of the faith in favor of more palatable \u2013 dare I say, politically correct \u2013 terms. This is, after all, the age of the \u201cseeker friendly\/seeker sensitive\u201d church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHope\u201d churches are aplenty. A Google search yields 82.8 million results for that choice. \u201cLife\u201d churches garner 56.3 million. \u201cFaith\u201d churches pull down 23.4 million, and \u201cJourney\u201d is popular, too, at 8.4 million. (Full disclosure: I worship at Lifechurch Utah, a name selected a couple years ago to replace the words \u201cValley Assembly.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/preacherskid\/2011\/07\/campus-crusade-for-christ-is-now-just-cru-at-least-its-not-cru-x.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CLICK HERE to read more<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beliefnet&#8217;s Robert Mims, a longtime\u00a0Christian author and former Associated Press reporter, is puzzled that Campus Crusade for Christ would change its name to &#8220;Cru.&#8221; In his column, he muses: It seems having\u201cJesus\u201d or \u201cChrist\u201d or even \u201cChristian\u201d on the signs of churches or logos of ministries \u2013 even long-established ones dedicated to spreading the gospel&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[460,2201,1106],"class_list":["post-4661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian","tag-campus-crusade-for-christ","tag-news","tag-robert-mims"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Author: Why drop &quot;Christ&quot; 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