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Summary: Worth Reading Twice
Review: It's simply astounding how good this book is. It's content-rich, intellectually satisfying, spiritually convicting, and culturally and politically relevant. It's the last book I asked my daughter to read before she left for college. It's all organized brilliantly and presented with intellectual dignity. Colson and Pearcy don't hold any punches spiritually, arguing that Christianity offers the best answers to all philosophical, scientific and ideological challenges -- we must simply resolve to articulate them to a lost society. In sum, a very engaging and profound work. I'll be going through it again with each of my other three children.
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Summary: Should Be Required Reading for Christians
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read; to be honest, five stars isn't enough! Colson convincingly demonstrates the importance of worldview and ideas,and how almost all of today's problems stem from incorrect worldviews and bad assumptions. Especially touching are the people who are real life examples of how faith can change our nation, one community, one person at a time. He shows that a healthy nation can only come about only when our basic assumptions about God and our purpose here on earth are correct. Buy it, and put it at the top of your bookshelf.
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Summary: Awesome perspective
Review: This is a very non-preachy way of explaining why Christianity makes sense in light of so many other choices. This is a very clear and easy to read book that isn't dumbed down, so the intellectually studied and the casual reader will both find it time well spent.Simply put, this book explains how the most natural thing we can do is live a Christian way of life. Yeah God for Chuck Colson!
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Summary: Soli Deo Gloria
Review: This book had the same effect on me that lightning has on a tree. My mind has never been the same since. This book reminds Christians that Christianity goes beyond the walls of the Church into the secular arena. Its mandate is for Christians to engage secular culture with the demands of God. The outline of the book is simple: How did we get here (the debate on creation vs. evolution)? What is wrong with us (here they show the fallacy of any worldview that denies the sinfulness of man and builds a worldview on human goodness as opposed to biblical morality)? And finally, How do we fix it (Showing that redemption is found in Jesus Christ alone)? After addressing and answering these questions Colson this shows how we, as orthodox Christians, should live. The Chapter. "Soli Deo Gloria" I read on my knees in worship of such a God. This chapter has offended several reviewers, namely the reader from Oakbrook, IL. This reader claims that Colson's list of "classical offerings" has "lyrics or imagery" as bad as the (I won't use an adjective) rock bands. First, the reader provided no source; secondly, and I have personally checked the "classical offerings" that Chuck presents and very few, if any, have lyrics at all (so much for the reprehensible lyrics Colson is guilty of presenting. Honestly, how many classical music songs have lyrics?)! All of this notwithstanding, this is one of the finest books written this decade. It has permanently changed my thinking and possibly my future. Now that I have praised it I will now critique it. Colson, and I will keep my criticism low because he has heard this complaint many times, came very close to betraying orthodox Christianity when he and Neauhus devised the Evangelicals and Catholics Together Document. I rejoice that Catholics oppose the modern day holocaust known as abortion, and their deviant doctrine notwithstanding, they strive to maintain a biblical worldview. But surely Colson realizes that Rome conceded nothing in the document and he and the Evangelicals surrendered the high ground. Fortunately this document does not speak for mainstream Evangelicalism. Please understand, Colson is my second favorite author (after John Piper) and he is a modern day prophet and I will read everything he writes, but I felt obligated to show where he erred. All in all, this is the book to read for the counter-cultural Christian. Soli Deo Gloria!
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