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What Is CCC?
Understanding Our Mission,
Vision, and Beliefs
Our
Mission
To turn lost students into Christ-centered
laborers.
Jesus said, "I have been given all authority
in heaven and earth. Therefore go and make disciples in all the nations,
baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, and then teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have
given you; and be sure of this-that I am with you always, even to the end
of the world." (Matthew 28:18-20)
Our Strategy
The method and approaches used to accomplish
the mission and turn the vision
into reality. Our
Values FAITH -
Moving forward with expectancy, as individuals and as a ministry.
EFFECTIVENESS - Adapting
with sensitivity to a changing culture. DEVELOPMENT
- Creating an environment which encourages growth
personally and professionally. The
Guiding Principles
The foundational thoughts that guide day-to-day
decisions, and the design and implementation
of all strategies. Focus
Leadership Development Ownership
Adaptability Teamwork
Comprehensive Scope
Our
Vision
Our vision is broad and our scope includes
every student in the world -- 60 million of them.
The Campus Ministry: Who are We?
A freshman walks into her history class
in a daze. Her boyfriend broke up with her the night before and she feels
so alone. Does anyone really care about me, she wonders. It's
Monday morning and a junior wakes up late and misses his morning class
again. As he gets out of bed, it hits him that getting drunk and partying
every weekend is leaving him empty. He wonders, Is there more to life
than this?
The professor is lecturing but the student
is not really listening. He lives in a country that has told him since
the time he was born that there is no God. But he questions what he's
been taught. Does God exist?, he asks.
These dramas play out every day on every
campus in every country. Students everywhere are hungry to hear about
a real God who is there and deeply loves them. They want to hear about
Jesus and His offer of forgiveness.
Students are what the Campus Ministry is
about. The most influential leaders in all walks of life come from the
college campus. The most mobile and accessible labor force for the Great
Commission is today's college students. Doesn't it make sense that students
are on God's heart? We believe it and that's why we are here. The Campus
Ministry is believing God for something new and radically different than
anything we have ever seen God do in the lives of college students. There
are 60 million college students in the world. And we believe each one
deserves at least one chance to hear about Jesus Christ.
The Campus Ministry cannot reach every student
alone. The vision requires multiple strategies, full-time laborers and
volunteers. That is why we place Campus Crusade staff on campuses to minister
to students. Reaching every student is why we have an international emphasis,
and why we have a targeted outreach to ethnic students. It is why we partnership
with churches and volunteers to reach campuses where we do not have any
full-time staff.
Believing God for reaching 60 million students.
This is the heart of the Campus Ministry.
Our
Statement of Faith
We accept those areas of doctrinal teaching
on which, historically, there has been general agreement among all true
Christians.
Statement of Faith
The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible,
God's infallible written Word, the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments.
We believe that it was uniquely, verbally and fully inspired by the Holy
Spirit, and that it was written without error (inerrant) in the original
manuscripts. It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which
it speaks. We accept those areas of
doctrinal teaching on which, historically, there has been general agreement
among all true Christians. Because of the specialized calling of our movement,
we desire to allow for freedom of conviction on other doctrinal matters,
provided that any interpretation is based upon the Bible alone, and that
no such interpretation shall become an issue which hinders the ministry
to which God has called us.
There is one true God, eternally existing
in three persons--Father, Son and Holy Spirit--each of whom possesses
equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality.
Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who
became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and
His virgin birth. Hence, He is
perfect Deity and true humanity united in one person forever.
He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned
for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their substitute, thus satisfying
divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone.
He rose from the dead in the same body, though
glorified, in which He lived and died.
He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down
at the right hand of God the Father, where He, the only mediator between
God and man, continually makes intercession for His own.
Man was originally created in the image of
God. He sinned by disobeying God; thus, he was alienated from his Creator.
That historic fall brought all mankind under divine condemnation.
Man's nature is corrupted, and he is thus
totally unable to please God. Every man is in need of regeneration and
renewal by the Holy Spirit.
The salvation of man is wholly a work of
God's free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works
or goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes His righteousness to those
who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies
them in His sight.
It is the privilege of all who are born again
of the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the very moment in
which they trust Christ as their Savior. This assurance is not based upon
any kind of human merit, but is produced by the witness of the Holy Spirit,
who confirms in the believer the testimony of God in His written word.
The Holy Spirit has come into the world to
reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to men.
He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually
indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until
the day of redemption. His fullness, power and control are appropriated
in the believer's life by faith.
Every believer is called to live so in the
power of the indwelling Spirit that he will not fulfill the lust of the
flesh but will bear fruit to the glory of God.
Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His
Body, which is composed of all men and women, living and dead, who have
been joined to Him through saving faith.
God admonishes His people to assemble together
regularly for worship, for participation in ordinances, for edification
through the Scriptures and for mutual encouragement.
At physical death the believer enters immediately
into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and awaits the resurrection
of his body to everlasting glory and blessing.
At physical death the unbeliever enters immediately
into eternal, conscious separation from the Lord and awaits the resurrection
of his body to everlasting judgment and condemnation.
Jesus Christ will come again to the earth--personally,
visibly and bodily--to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers
to proclaim the gospel throughout the world and to disciple men of every
nation. The fulfillment of that Great Commission requires that all worldly
and personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to "Him who
loved us and gave Himself for us. |