Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Sir Isaac Newton in a letter written in 1675 to fellow scientist Robert Hook said this,

if I've seen further than most, it's by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Well, Chuck Colson was one of those giants

for so many of us, and it's our privilege today to steward his legacy through the Colson Center.

In fact, Chuck Olson believed that his most important legacy, even more than the organizations

that he founded or the books that he wrote, would be people. And that's why he started what he

called the Centurions program.

It's something that continues today as the Colson Fellows Program. Here's Chuck Colson, in his

own words, describing the important vision that he had for this program.

I have a burning passion. It's the first item on my prayer list every day. And that's to see a movement of Christians raised up from the churches to defend truth in the marketplace of ideas, and to live out the gospel.

Nothing less than this kind of an awakening can possibly save our quickly deteriorating culture.

That's why I'm now spending all of my time working at Breakpoint

and the Colson Center. One of my major projects is developing Christian leaders who can understand

and defend a biblical view of all of life. We call this the Centurions program. For the past six

years, we brought a hundred of the best and brightest into this year-long teaching effort

to study under some of the best minds

in the Christian world. It's demanding. We read books together, review movies, critique them,

do a lot of teaching online, and have three residencies during the year in Lansdown, Virginia,

near our offices. Our Centurion graduates are like the Marines or Navy SEALs. They're on the

front lines, the next wave of leaders.

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