What can a break point?

A daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

With the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

A recent study commissioned by the Wall Street Journal found that the percentage of those

who self-reported valuing things like hard work, community involvement, patriotism, and tolerance

for others has tanked in recent years.

In fact, the only value that showed a marked increase, according to the study, was money.

Our changing values reflect a deeply changed worldview, and they're at the root of the

broader issues we face as a society, including our heightened political ranker, the growing

number of what are called deaths of despair, and the loss of fundamental freedoms, like

rights of conscience.

Still, it is to this cultural moment, not another, that God has called His people.

It is in this cultural moment that Christ has placed His church to be sought in light,

to be His hands His feet, His body.

Over the last two years, dozens of churches have wrestled more deeply with what it means

to fulfill this cultural responsibility, as church affiliates of the Colson Fellows

program.

Recently, we spoke with a few of the pastors who've implemented the Colson Fellows program

in their churches as affiliates.

That conversation will be heard in its entirety in an upcoming bonus episode of the Breakpoint

podcast.

But here's a sample of what these pastors had to say.

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