Chuck Colson is correct that the church in America needs to return to orthodoxy and truth. We need more leaders rejecting the postmodern trend that is rethinking and redefining known Christian truths.
Having said that, Chuck Colson is part of the problem because he wants the largely dead church in America to go back to the truth it never embraced. The true Church in America is much smaller then Colson would have you believe. It does not include most of the apostate Liberals and the Catholics that Chuck Colson so readily embraces as Christians. Most of these have a culture or a religion, not Christ.
Muslims are better theologians because they base their beliefs on literal interpretations of their scriptures and most of them are well trained in it. While most American Christians only know what their denomination or pastor told them and haven’t a clue what the Bible really says or how to properly apply the biblical passages.
How can the Church have a proper worldview when “leaders” like Chuck Colson deny the prophetic implications of what is going on in the Middle East? There is Bible prophecy unfolding right in front of us in the Middle East but Colson is blind to that. He says knowing the scripture will give Christians a proper biblical worldview. It does only if you take what God meant to be literal, literally.
If you allegorize and spiritualize what is literal, if you replace Israel with the Church, if you sign on with those who oppose Israel, if you kowtow to terrorists organizations that seek the destruction of Israel, then What in the world can you teach any Christian about proper worldviews?
Chuck Colson says he hopes his new book will provide a new theological grounding for Christians. Why would it? The Bible is the book Christians need to understand for theological grounding not Chuck Colson’s book. Colson always takes a might high view of what he says but from some of the things I have heard him say, I am not impressed. Who make Chuck Colson America’s theologian?
Colson, who served time in prison for Watergate-related crimes, says the church in America needs a return to orthodoxy — a term he says is often misunderstood. “Orthodoxy is a bad word to use [because] people think it means going backwards — but it doesn’t, it means going to the pure truth,” he adds. “It’s radical in the sense that it is building on the teachings of the Apostles directly given to the counsels who were writing the Bible in the first centuries.”
A proper biblical worldview, notes Colson, will also affect a Christian’s political involvement.
The ministry founder says he is hopeful that his book will provide a new theological grounding for Christians.
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