Being the Body
- Christian Living
- Publisher: W Publishing Group (Thomas Nelson)
- Published: 2004
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Publisher's Description
Charles Colson has been called, "one of the most important social reformers in a generation." Ten years ago in The Body, Colson turned his prophetic attention to the church and how it might break out of its cultural captivity and reassert its biblical identity. Today the book's classic truths have not changed. But the world we live in has. Christians in America have had their complacency shattered and their beliefs challenged. Around the world, the clash of world views has never been more strident. Before all of us, daily, are the realities of life and death, terror and hope, light and darkness, brokenness and healing. We cannot withdraw to the comfort of our sanctuaries...we must engage. For, if ever there was a time for Christians to be the Body of Christ in the world, it is now. In this new, revised and expanded edition of The Body, Charles Colson revisits the question, "What is the church and what is its relevance to contemporary culture at large?" Provocative and insightful, Being the Body inspires us to rise above a stunted "Jesus and me" faith to a nobler view of something bigger and grander than ourselves--the glorious, holy vision for which God created the church. Hardcover ISBN 0849917522
Endorsements (4)
“Scriptural, searching, haunting, humbling, challenging, energizing, down-to-earth, up-to-the-minute—all this and more is true of Being the Body, a radical update of Colson’s blockbuster of a decade ago, now even more powerful than it was before. Here is visionary dynamite. Read it thoughtfully, and it will mark you for life.”
“No one can match Colson’s unique blend of story-telling, contemporary insight and prophetic vision.”
“Chuck Colson and Ellen Vaughn have once again given us a compelling and humbling testament to how God’s grace and truth are best embodied when the church truly lives Coram Deo—before the eyes of God. Through numerous stories from the earliest days of Christianity to the present . . . your heart will be touched and your mind challenged.”
“Chuck Colson is a national treasure—not only that, he is a light for the universal church. The church, as Dr. Colson teaches us again: that embodied presence of Christ active in the world, today as yesterday.”
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