Excellent Parachurch
Luke Wood has written a wonderful article interacting with something written by Jonathan Carswell. In it he outlines what those of us with a slightly stand-off-ish attitude to Christian Unions tend to think about parachurch.
He does more than that though, he also outlines what excellent parachurch looks like! Christian Unions can look like this, many of them do. Any criticisms leveled against them by me are not intended to hint at their abolition, but at their reformation. Here are a few juicy quotes to wet your appetite:
In a similar vein, CUs provide a mechanism for the church of God in any given city to gain access on campus which they would not otherwise have …
… Excellent parachurch recognises its role as nothing less than assisting in the work of the local churches. This is a high calling indeed!
Absolutely! Since the (local) church is God’s primary method of mission the natural conclusion is not, ‘let’s get rid of everything else,’ but ‘how can these organisations best serve the church?’
Let’s make sure that these convictions, which I imagine most members of a Christian Union hold, actually effect the way CUs operate to give the Church the primacy in reaching the lost.
Luke has clarified what I’m trying to get at far better than I’ve ever managed.
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