Not a religion, not even merely a relationship with Jesus.

Weekly insights from Chuck Colson and great saints of the past relating to the Christian worldview.

“Christians must see that the faith is more than a religion or even a relationship with Jesus; the faith is a complete view of the world and humankind’s place in it. Christianity is a worldview that speaks to every area of life, and its foundational doctrines define its content. If we don’t know what we believe – even what Christianity is – how can we live it and defend it? Our ignorance is crippling us.”
-Chuck Colson, The Faith

“The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

“We will destroy the church if we do not have the courage in a radical day like ours to hold onto the absolutes of the Word of God regardless of the cost. But also when we train children to take equally what the Bible says and what people will think, we destroy the Bible’s authority when the chips are down in the university.”
-Francis A. Schaeffer, Back to Freedom and Dignity

“The real problems of men are always, in the last analysis, religious; so that if we spoke only of reforming lives and of concrete discipline, we should be doing no more than proposing a tedious moralism or a cult of discipline. This would be tackling people from the outside. The only true source of discipline in this world is fellowship with Christ. The moment Jesus Christ really comes into a person’s life, he finds a new discipline, one which is no longer rigid, formalist, or heavy, but joyous, supple, and spontaneous. Discipline is not the goal of life, nor even a means of coming to Christ. It is a consequence of the change in outlook which takes place when Christ breaks into a person’s life.”
-Paul Tournier, The Healing of Persons

“Our age is suffering because of the rift between the spiritual and the temporal. It is suffering not only because of the despiritualization of the world, but also because of the disincarnation of the church. The church, it seems to me, has separated itself from real life and thus simply abandoned the world to its practical difficulties and taken refuge in an ivory tower. And for this it bears a heavy responsibility for our present crisis. True, it still goes on preaching, but far from the public place where the practical life of men is lived.”
-Paul Tournier, The Whole Person in a Broken World

“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”
-Jeremiah 29:7

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy…The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works.
-Titus 3:3-5, 8

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