Session 5 - Charles Colson

Charles Colson is the founder of Prison Fellowship and Speaker for Breakpoint radio.

Notes from this session:

- Spurgeon said "to preach the whole truth is an awful charge."

- Calvin said "you cannot be a Christian apart from the church."

- A healthy church will breed a healthy culture

- Today we've replaced truth with therapy.

- George Barna did a survey - he asked in this survey about 13 fundamentals of the faith (directly from the Nicene Creed - nothing wacky here) - only 1% agreed with all 13

- We are not teaching the fundamentals of the faith

- "We cannot defend our faith, nor can we live it, if we don't know what it is"

Takeaways (still processing...)

1. Wow. 1% agreed with all 13 - likely because they didn't understand what and why they believe. Scary. Definitely points to a need for systematic teaching of what we believe and why...

2. "To preach the whole truth is an awful charge." Indeed. A humbling, terrifying, privilege.