Distinctives

The distinctives of Campus for Christ flow out of our goal: Helping to change the world through turning lost students into Christ-centered labourers. These distinctives describe Our Power, Our Task, Our Means and Our Scope to accomplish this goal.

Our Power

The Ministry of the Holy Spirit

Part of our ministry uniqueness is that we recognize that we are unable to grow on our own, that we cannot obey in the flesh and that anything we do in our own strength is not ultimately glorifying to God. We recognize that spiritual power comes from God alone, who grants it to us through the person of the Holy Spirit. Only through being filled with the Holy Spirit can we grow, obey and do what glorifies God. We experience spiritual power by being constantly filled with the Holy Spirit, moment by moment. This involves confessing any known sin in our lives to God and surrendering our lives, dreams and hopes to Him as well. We then ask God to fill us with the Holy Spirit as we are commanded in Ephesians 5:18.

Concerted Prayer

We emphasize prayer as the foundation for all that we do, from seeking God’s wisdom, to His dreams, to the planning of these ideas, to their execution, the tiniest detail is not too important to pray about. We pray for others and actively seek people to participate with us in prayer. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain Psalm 127:1.

Our Task

Initiative Evangelism

Success in initiative evangelism is simply taking the initiative to share the good news of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God (Bill Bright). This is done one-to-one and through group evangelism.

Small Group and Individual Discipleship

Following Jesus’ example, we believe that people are best discipled in small groups. This aids in multiplying our time, the encouragement of group members and a process whereby we can find those who want to have a deepening relationship with the Lord. We also disciple people individually. They are discipled to Christ and not to us. Our goal is to help people become independently dependent on the Lord.

Our Means

Spiritual Multiplication

In 2 Timothy 2:2, Paul encourages Timothy to pass on what he has learned to other reliable people who in turn are to pass this on to others. Although we want to build into our new and young Christians, our goal is that what we give them would not end with them. Until they are giving away what they have been given we are just having a ministry of addition. Our goal in ministry is multiplication.

Transferability

For Spiritual Multiplication to take place, transferability of thoughts, ideas and material need to happen. We believe that it is vital for material to be passed on from one generation to another, one culture to another, discipler to disciple. Thus, any materials need to be easily understood, easily used and easily passed on to others. As Jesus said, “make disciples . . . teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” (Matthew 28:19-20)

Our Scope

Reaching the World in this Generation

Jesus’ goal expressed in Matthew 28:18-20 is “make disciples of all nations.” The word “nations” has a fuller meaning than just political boundaries. It includes all people, ethnic, cultural and language groups within the whole world. We are to make disciples of all peoples. Acts 1:8 continues this emphasis: “you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”