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

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

While each year the Colson Fellows program equips a group of Christians from various places,

callings, ages to think and live with a kind of clarity, confidence, and courage that

only comes through a Christian worldview.

The goal of the program, as Chuck Colson originally imagined it was to see Christians

from all walks of life embrace the full implications of the gospel beyond just

personal salvation to becoming the agents of reconciliation that Christ saved them to be.

Colson Fellows participate in the program via online or mostly through regional cohorts,

studying together with a group of like-minded believers that are connected

by geography.

However, many fellows are now participating with other members of their own churches.

That's because of the Church affiliate option of the Colson Fellows program.

Right now, at least 88 churches around the country offer the Colson Fellows program in-house.

And I say at least because new churches seem to be signing up all the time.

This past year over 600 Colson fellows were mentored by church affiliates with leaders

and their own local churches. One of these churches is Walnut Street Baptist Church from Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Back in 2023, Pastor Gray Falanga found himself searching for a way to articulate the hope of the

gospel in light of the specific issues

that his congregation and many like it were grappling with, things like racial tensions and

post-pandemic challenges, critical theory, sexual brokenness, and more.

Here's Pastor Gray.

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