InterVarsity forces two leaders to step down due to conflict of beliefs
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship removed students from leadership in its Trinity chapter last spring due to noncompliance with the organization’s Biblical Standards of Leadership. One student was demoted because she dated someone who did not share her Christian faith, while another student was removed from her position because she no longer believed in hell.“To be a leader means that you have a role of spiritual authority in our organization,” said Thomas Bell, president of IVCF. “To be in a role of spiritual authority requires that you exhibit Christ-like behavior. We know that we live in a world with values vastly different than our own, and we prefer to adhere to a biblical standard of behavior.”...