Campus Crusader for Christ | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction

Colin Hansen of Christianity Today reviews the new book Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America, by John G. Turner. Campus Crusade missionaries are working in places you's never imagine employing missionaries not just from America, but from missional churches in countries you wouldn't even think of as sending missionaries. I'm being a little vague on purpose. Some of their work is secret because it's dangerous. This is not mentioned in Hansen's review, and I'm not sure if it's discussed in Turner's book. But Bill Bright is an incredible leader and missionary hero.

Below is an excerpt from Hansen's article.

God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life." Probably no slogan outside the Bible is so familiar to evangelicals as Bill Bright's first spiritual law. More than a few non-Christians have heard this line as well, thanks to tireless evangelism by Bright and staff for Campus Crusade for Christ, which he founded in 1951. Since then, Crusade has become the largest non-philanthropic evangelical parachurch organization, collecting about $500 million in annual revenues. Nearly 30,000 staff around the world share Bright's Four Spiritual Laws tract. These staff members raise their own financial support, a practice pioneered by Crusade that has become standard among missionaries.

Campus Crusader for Christ | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction

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