Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. I'm Shane Morris, and joining me today is John Stone Street for something I think will be a pretty special and memorable exercise here. As we prepare to mark Christ's resurrection this Sunday, we want to play for you some of Chuck Colson's classic Easter breakpoint commentaries.

And then John and I want to take a few minutes just to

talk about each of them and try to apply what Chuck said years ago, in some cases decades

ago, in light of our current moment culturally and spiritually. The first of these commentaries

is called The Truth About Everything, John. You're right. This is, I think, a very special episode.

We'd love to hear Chuck again. You know, Chuck's commentaries always seem to be more relevant today than even when he said them.

And his distinct voice, I know, is something that a lot of us remember and a lot of us, you know, really mess.

It's really a beautiful thing. In this first commentary that we're going to play, this idea of the truth about everything is something that just burned deeply in Chuck's soul.

And that was this idea that we say often and we repeat often, that Christianity is personal but not private.

That Christianity is public truth.

And of course, there's nothing even more significant than the resurrection, that the resurrection

isn't just something that I believe in order to have a significant spiritual moment in my life.

The resurrection, and especially since coming on the tales of what was accomplished at the

crucifixion, is the central event in human history.

It's actually the thing upon which all of history turns.

It's the hinge upon which the door of history swings, that this is public truth. And, you know,

Shane, our first Christian forebears, the first followers of Jesus, when they said Christ is risen,

usually when we say it, which will say here on Sunday morning, what we mean is, is that I believe

Jesus rose from the dead, which I hope everyone here believe Jesus rose from the dead. But the first

Christians were saying to a group of people who saw Jesus die, Christ is risen. It wasn't a statement

of personal, private faith. It was a statement of public proclamation. It was a barbaric

Yelp that actually gave birth to the church.

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