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Weekly insights from Chuck Colson and great saints of the past and present

“If we are to face today’s grave threats to the Christian Church and to Western civilization, we must look across the sweep of Christian communions, Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox, to find the original consensus of the early Church; that is, those essential elements of our faith that, from the beginning, all true Christians have believed – what Oxford scholar C. S. Lewis meant by the title of his classic book, Mere Christianity.”
-Chuck Colson, The Faith

“When true religion falls under a general and remarkable decay, it is time for all that are concerned to awaken and arouse themselves to fresh vigor and activity, in their several posts of service. If the interests of piety and virtue are things fit to be encouraged and maintained in the world, if the kingdom of the blessed God among men be worthy to be supported, surely it is a necessary and becoming zeal for every one who hath the honor to be a minister of this kingdom, to take alarm at the appearance of such danger; and each of us should enquire, What can I do to strengthen the things which remain and are ready to die, as well as to recover what is lost?”
-Isaac Watts, An Exhortation to Ministers

“The theologian, thus, has a direct duty to Christians as such, in helping them to live by an essentially unchanging Gospel in an essentially changing world…Thus, because both the thought-forms and the needs of the concrete situation of Christians in one age differ from those in another, the theologian has a continual duty to relate the unchanging Gospel to the contemporary situation in order that Christians themselves shall understand their faith as adequately as is possible and feel at home in it as contemporary men and women.”
-E. L. Mascall, The Secularization of Christianity

“Radical Christians will be iconoclasts intent on bringing down the secular towers of Babel, which often wear a religious label. Such Christians will be considered spiritual and even social revolutionaries, for they will be conspicuous in their refusal to pay obeisance to the false gods that enthrall a secularized culture.”
-Donald G. Bloesch, Crumbling Foundations

“Each famous author of antiquity whom I recall places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of later generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds and the writings that their ancestors had produced through toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.”
-Francesco Petrarch, Letters

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
-Romans 15:4

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