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Unshaken Faith

#15 Orange Curriculum: An Urgent Warning to Churches

Unshaken Faith

Alisa Childers & Natasha Crain

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Orange organization may be the most influential organization you’ve never heard of when it comes to church curriculum for the next generation. According to the Orange website, at thinkorange.com, they have 10,000+ partner churches, influence over 1 million kids and teens per year, and serve over 80 denominations. They also report that 49 percent of the fastest growing churches use Orange. We have long had concerns that this widely used curriculum is primarily moralistic (meaning it’s focused more on so called good values rather than on the Gospel) and that it’s becoming increasingly progressive. In today’s episode, we’ll focus on three recent events which we think demonstrate our continued concern—particularly about progressivism—and bring awareness to these issues.Why is the Gospel Good News? Orange Leaders (https://orangeleaders.com/2023/03/31/why-is-the-gospel-good-news/)Dan Scott (https://twitter.com/danscott77), Director of Orange 252 Kids & Preteen Curriculum (https://orangeleaders.com/speakers/dan-scott/)Orange Resources on Racism (https://orangeleaders.com/2023/02/07/resources-on-racism-every-leader-should-watch-read-and-share-2/)Neil Shenvi's review of "How to Be an Antiracist" (https://shenviapologetics.com/the-gospel-of-antiracism-a-short-review-of-kendis-how-to-be-an-antiracist/)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Natasha Crane, and I'm Elisa Childers.

0:05.0

Welcome to Unshaken Faith, where we equip you to live your Christian faith

0:11.0

boldly in a chaotic culture. There's a good chance that many people listening to this have never heard of the orange organization.

0:33.0

But it may be the most influential organization

0:36.0

you've never heard of when it comes to church curriculum

0:38.0

for the next generation.

0:40.0

So just to give you an idea of the scope that we're talking about today,

0:42.9

according to the orange website at think orange.com, they have 10,000 plus partner

0:47.6

churches, influenced over 1 million kids and teens per year,

0:51.3

and serve over 80 denominations. They also report that 49% of the fastest growing

0:56.3

churches use Orange. A Lisa and I as well as our friends Krista Bon Traeger and

1:00.3

Monique Dusan over at the Center for Biblical Unity have long had concerns

1:04.2

that this widely used curriculum is primarily moralistic meaning it's focused more

1:08.8

on so-called good values rather than on the gospel and that it's becoming increasingly progressive.

1:15.0

In fact, a year ago, the four of us did a 2.5 hour live stream to discuss our concerns in detail.

1:20.8

If you'd like to see that, you can look up the video called

1:23.0

when a National Kids Ministry starts promoting progressive ideas on Elisa's YouTube channel.

1:27.5

But in today's episode, we want to focus on three recent things, which we think demonstrate our continued concern, particularly on the

1:35.3

progressivism part and bring awareness to these issues.

1:38.7

We think that churches should take this as an important and urgent warning. But first on a brighter note,

1:45.0

Elisa has some exciting announcements about our Unshaken conference.

1:49.2

Well we are coming to Calvary Chapel Chino Hills here in just a couple of weeks so all of our

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