BONUS: The Colson Fellows Program with Michael Craven
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
John Stonestreet welcomes Michael Craven to discuss the growth and impact of the Colson Fellows Program.
To learn more and apply for the program visit https://colsonfellows.org/.
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| 0:00.0 | We're welcome to a special edition of the Breakpoint podcast, a bonus episode. |
| 0:09.0 | Joining me today is Michael Craven, who leads the Colson Fellows program here at the Colson |
| 0:15.1 | Center. |
| 0:16.1 | We are at that time of year where about 1,300, 1,200 Colson Fellows are wrapping up their |
| 0:23.0 | study with us for the last year and another group is thinking about joining us. |
| 0:29.6 | The growth of this program has been one of the most remarkable things that we have experienced |
| 0:35.6 | at the Colson Center and it has, I think, revealed an awful lot about where the church |
| 0:40.0 | is right now and really happy to talk to Michael about what is going on. |
| 0:44.6 | Michael, good to talk to you. |
| 0:46.7 | John, great to be here. |
| 0:47.7 | I feel like one of the popular kids getting to be on Breakpoint with you. |
| 0:50.9 | I know you are and you should consider it that way and, you know, stay humble about, |
| 0:57.3 | you know, this remarkable privilege and opportunity that you have. |
| 1:02.5 | The Colson Fellows program is one of those things that God led Chuck Colson to start and |
| 1:10.6 | he really saw it as a central part of how he could serve the church, a central part |
| 1:16.1 | of his legacy. |
| 1:18.1 | And he was inspired by a lot of different things about history where, you know, the biggest |
| 1:23.2 | bang for the buck, so to speak, in terms of long-term investment for the kingdom. |
| 1:28.3 | It's not just in, you know, pouring into the writing of books or producing of this, |
| 1:33.2 | you know, the media products that he was doing, including, you know, the daily Breakpoint |
| 1:38.0 | commentaries and the Breakpoint podcast that we were doing together, but specifically |
| 1:43.6 | pouring into people, people that God had placed around the country, even around the world |
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