This summer, thousands of school children will descend upon Christian summer camps, where they will fellowship, worship, and hear Scripture taught, many for the first time. Many will be saved, and many will receive the encouragement they need to persevere in faith the rest of their lives.
And yet, because of the twentieth century context in which the Christian camp movement arose, many if not most of those camps will be teaching the view that the world has been gradually growing more and more corrupt, more and more ungodly, since the first century. The world is finally reaching the height of its wickedness, and Jesus will be returning to Rapture His Church soon, after which the world will enter into the Great Tribulation.
Now think about this. The Church, which began when Jesus called twelve men to follow Him, has so grown over the past two thousand years as to spread to almost every country and corner on the face of the earth. Her faithfulness has been blessed by God’s grace with the financial means to buy acres upon acres of land, on which believers have planted camps to bring even more people into fellowship with Christ and His people. And that’s just one small sliver of all that God has done for His people since our Lord walked the earth and gave up his life, the one Who in His life “had nowhere to lay His head”.
Praise God for all the good He will do in these camps. But there is hardly anything more self-contradicting than a summer camp that teaches Dispensationalism. The summer camp movement arose, and continues to exist, because Postmillennialism is true. And in spite of the erroneous end times doctrine these camps teach, the Gospel will continue to triumph, because the complete, sufficient work of Christ makes the contrary impossible.
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