HOW GOD BRINGS CHANGE
Charles Colson told the following story in an address at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. I love the illustration about a man named Jack Eckerd. A few years ago I was on the Bill Buckley television program, talking about ‘Restitution’ (one of my favorite subjects) and Criminal Justice. Bill Buckley agreed with me. A few days later I got a call from Jack Eckerd, a businessman from Florida, the founder of the Eckerd Drug Chain, one of the largest drug chains in America (second largest). He saw me on television and asked me to come to Florida. He agreed Florida had a criminal justice crisis, would I come down and do something about it? And we did, we got the Attorney General of the state, the President of the Senate, we got on Jack Eckerd’s Lear Jet, we went around the State of Florida advocating criminal justice reforms and everywhere we would go Jack Eckerd would introduce me to…
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