You Cannot Live Your Life

Hostility To Religion Is Having An Effect. In 1963, The Number Of Americans Who Said That They Believed The Bible Is Literally True Was 65%. Today, The Number Has Dropped To 32%.

The Life Function Of [the Local Church] Is To Love The God Who Created It - To Care For Others Out Of Obedience To Christ, To Heal Those Who Hurt, To Take Away Fear, To Restore Community, To Belong To One Another, To Proclaim The Good News While Living It Out. The Church Is The Invisible Made Visible.

Redeeming Culture Is The Never Ending Mission Of The Church.

But All At Once I Realized That It Was Not My Success God Had Used To Enable Me To Help Those In This Prison, Or In Hundreds Of Others Just Like It. My Life Of Success Was Not What Made This Morning So Glorious -- All My Achievements Meant Nothing In God's Economy. "no, The Real Legacy Of My Life Was My Biggest Failure -- That I Was An Ex-convict. My Greatest Humiliation -- Being Sent To Prison -- Was The Beginning Of God's Greatest Use Of My Life; He Chose The One Thing In Which I Could Not Glory For His Glory.

Over The Years Since I Became A Christian, I Have Always Deliberately Explained That I Have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These Words Are Invariably Translated Into 'colson's Professed Religious Experience.' I Discovered That One Major U.s. Daily, As A Matter Of Policy, Will Not Print The Two Words Jesus Christ Together; When Combined, The Editor Says, It Represents An Editorial Judgment.