THE REAL CHURCH IN ACTION
In a recent article in Christianity Today, Charles Colson tells of a recent radio interview he did in Dallas, while on a book tour. He ran into some typical “Christian bashing” in the light of recent televangelist scandals that have rocked the world, and tarred Christianity. Colson pointed out that: There are 350,000 churches across America where people’s spiritual needs are being met. Thousands of missionaries are living in conditions you or I couldn’t. Thousands of volunteers are working in prisons, soup kitchens and rescue missions. That’s the church in action! I was almost shouting into the microphone . . . As it happened, only a few days after my dismaying encounter in Dallas I was scheduled to break ground for a prison chapel in Delaware and attend a Prison Fellowship dedication service. Georgetown, Delaware, is a small town surrounded by chicken farms and corn fields. The closest thing to a skyscraper there is a grain-storage silo. The town’s…
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