What It Means to Be On the Front Lines
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Every follower of Christ is on the front lines when they take their faith into every walk of life, as "salt and light" to a world that desperately needs the redemptive power of the Gospel.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint, daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth, |
| 0:06.1 | the Colson Center and John Stone Street. |
| 0:09.5 | A feature of life today is just how quickly culture changes. |
| 0:13.5 | I can leave many Christians, even those with a strong personal faith, struggling to make |
| 0:17.6 | the connection between what is true, real, and good, and all the issues that seem to |
| 0:21.9 | barrage us all the time. |
| 0:23.8 | What Christians need is a strong public faith, one that provides clarity and meaning. |
| 0:28.9 | The Colson Center equips Christians to see that though Christian faith is certainly personal, |
| 0:34.0 | it is not private. |
| 0:35.4 | The implications of the Christian faith built on Christ and committed to what is true |
| 0:39.8 | shapes our public witness, makes us able to think critically about culture, drawing |
| 0:44.0 | from the entire story of Scripture, and also able to communicate wisely with others. |
| 0:49.1 | And short, what we want to see is every Christian able to live like one, and this time, and |
| 0:54.4 | in this place where God has called us. |
| 0:56.2 | Now to be clear, we do not think of ourselves as being on the so-called front lines. |
| 1:02.1 | Rather every follower of Christ is on the front lines, whenever they take their faith |
| 1:05.9 | into every walk of life, as salt and light in a world that desperately needs the redemptive |
| 1:11.0 | power of the gospel. |
| 1:12.6 | For example, Abbey Foltz, a cardiac nurse from Colorado Springs, Colorado, she's on |
| 1:17.0 | the front lines. |
| 1:18.3 | In addition to igniting her passion for caring for people in moments of crisis, diving |
| 1:22.7 | deeper into the Christian story of reality has helped Abbey make sense of the big, wide |
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