Comments on: Further thoughts on Chuck Colson http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2012/06/thoughts-on-chuck-colson/ A First Things Blog Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:35:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Michael Snow http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2012/06/thoughts-on-chuck-colson/#comment-21227 Michael Snow Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:29:10 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=12335#comment-21227 Colson spoke at the Yokefellows Conference in 1978. When Dean Orr brought him into Jones House where he was lodging, I was studying in the basement which housed the Yokefellow Academy Library. When I heard his voice, I quickly picked up my books and headed out the basement exit, being sure that the dean would show him the library. I have long rued my timidity. But I have followed and supported his ministry ever since then. This mindset, "that Christian political involvement [is] for the purpose of saving America rather than for being faithful to a God who sovereignly works out his purposes throughout the world," effects our thoughts on many fronts. http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Pacifism-Fruit-Narrow-ebook/dp/B005RIKH62/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_t_2 Colson spoke at the Yokefellows Conference in 1978. When Dean Orr brought him into Jones House where he was lodging, I was studying in the basement which housed the Yokefellow Academy Library. When I heard his voice, I quickly picked up my books and headed out the basement exit, being sure that the dean would show him the library. I have long rued my timidity. But I have followed and supported his ministry ever since then.

This mindset, “that Christian political involvement [is] for the purpose of saving America rather than for being faithful to a God who sovereignly works out his purposes throughout the world,” effects our thoughts on many fronts.
http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Pacifism-Fruit-Narrow-ebook/dp/B005RIKH62/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_t_2

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