There is a way to share the truth in love. On the Tuesday edition of Live the Promise Owen Strachan joins Susie to explore the legacy of Chuck Colson and his tone of humble engagement.
Owen describes what led him to write this new book, .
“We’re in an age that is hard on heroes and earnestness. Young people today have grown up jaded. My generation needs to see the power of conversion.”
Owen has a heart for millennials, being one himself, and wants to remind the younger believers in the church that it is possible to be a Christian in the public square.
What can we learn from Chuck Colson, a man who lived as both a believer and an unbeliever before a watching world?
• Engage the younger generation. Chuck Colson believed the next generation would be the one to truly bring about change.
• God defines us. “At the end of the day let man do his worst and let God lift us up.”
• Fame is really a destabilizing presence in someone’s life.
• Even in the face of public shaming, we have hope in Christ. “We need to recognize that the worst possible thing has happened to us – we’ve been declared guilty [before God]. But we’ve been washed clean by Christ. We don’t have to fear what the world throws at us.”
• Chuck had a prophetic voice. He wrote and spoke about the end of the traditional family, the narrowing of the freedom of religion and the increase of hostility toward Christians.
• Lobbing truth bombs at the culture doesn’t work. We have to be involved. “It’s not enough to be against the world. You have to love the world. That’s a posture we must have. We want people to see that we have skin in the game as self-sacrificial activists.”
• Christians need to speak! Owen explains. “Pastors have to preach the whole counsel of God. Then people are equipped to go out and preach the gospel.”
• Die “with your boots on.” To the end of his life, Chuck knew he had a mission to fulfill. He died with a passion to see God’s truth spread around the world and Jesus calls us to do the same.
Key Scriptures: Ezra 7:28; John 14:6; John 3:16
Theme Song: We Believe by the Newsboys
