Imagine what could happen if the church led the way in restoring what's broken.

That's what happened when Ryan joined the Colson Fellows program.

Shortly after completing the program, he worked with his church to launch his senior home,

an addiction recovery center, and a foster care closet, real answers to real needs in his community.

That's exactly why the Colson Center exists,

to equip believers like Ryan to bring restoration. But none of it happens without donor support.

As we close our fiscal year, we need your help to expand the impact of programs like the Colson

Fellows, as well as the other ministries of the Colson Center. Give by June 30th at colsoncenter.org slash May and help the church be the church.

Well, going 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.

This month, 1700 years ago, was one of the most significant and consequential events in all

of church history. Across the Bosporus straight from Constantinople in Nica, a council met to

settle a question that was plaguing the church. Who precisely is Jesus Christ? Their work shaped the future of Christian theology.

In the first few centuries after Christ's resurrection, Jesus was understood in a variety of ways.

The Gnostics doubted his humanity, arguing that Jesus was a purely spiritual being who only

seemed human. Others suggested that Jesus

was an angel or archangel, specifically the angel of the Lord mentioned in the Old Testament.

By the third century, the church had accepted the deity of Christ while seeing him as subordinate

to the father. But around 318 to 319, the nature of that subordination became the source of a controversy

between Arius, a priest in Alexandria, and Alexander I, the patriarch of Alexandria.

Alexander argued that Christ was eternally begotten of the father's substance, and thus,

equal to the father and without a beginning.

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