As the Presbyterian Church got more and more involved in social justice and introduced more and more of their youth to connect the gospel to social action, Young Life came to town and pulled the middle and upper-class white kids out of the Presbyterian (what became the PC-USA) church-based fellowship groups and would meet separately with them to focus on individual salvation and personal spirituality and to keep them out of getting involved in social justice. The goal was to get them to camp. They would keep these teens Christianity separate from the social issues of the day. (He also mentioned that at camp the Presbyterian kids would then loses their Presbyterian commitments and when they graduated high school would join non-denoms and be introduced to all kinds of muddled theology)."
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