Judge rules that Christian club can have Christian leaders: Why our faith is key to experiencing the power of God
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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A judge ruled recently that a Christian club on a university campus can have Christian leaders. In The Daily Article for April 13, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison explains why this news is good news, then focuses on the faith of Prince Philip, the fact that God is working in ways we cannot see, and the urgency of measuring our capacity to change the culture by his abilities rather than our own.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.7 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.6 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:18.4 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison, the Denisonformed, and this is the daily article for Tuesday, |
| 0:22.3 | April 13, 2021. The title is, Judge Rules that Christian Club can have Christian leaders, why our |
| 0:29.1 | faith is key to experiencing the power of God. Let's begin with good news. You wouldn't think |
| 0:34.1 | to be news. A Christian club in Michigan can legally require its leaders |
| 0:38.6 | to be Christians. In a varsity Christian Fellowship, as a student ministry, that provides community |
| 0:44.2 | and Bible studies on college and university campuses. It's been part of Wayne State University |
| 0:49.2 | in Detroit, Michigan for 75 years. The club has opened to all students, but it requires its leaders to agree with |
| 0:56.4 | the organization's statement of faith. As the Beckett Fund noted, Wayne State, quote, rightly allows |
| 1:02.3 | fraternities to have only male leaders, female athletic clubs to have only female members, and African |
| 1:07.7 | American clubs to have only African American leaders, end quote. However, it |
| 1:12.4 | claimed that a Christian club should not be able to have only Christian leaders, deeming intervarsity's |
| 1:18.1 | leadership policies as discriminatory and deregistering the club in 2017. Judge Robert H. Cleland |
| 1:26.1 | of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan |
| 1:29.4 | ruled last week that the university's actions, quote, strike at the heart, end quote, of the First |
| 1:35.4 | Amendment and are, quote, obviously odious to the Constitution. He added that the school's attempts to |
| 1:41.5 | dictate the club's leadership are categorically barred |
| 1:45.0 | by the Constitution. This is not the only good news in the news. Premier Christian News is reporting |
| 1:52.1 | that Prince Philip encouraged Queen Elizabeth II to talk more about her Christian faith ahead of |
| 1:57.9 | her Christmas broadcast in the year 2000. Those who knew him well were |
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