Chuck Colson and the Centurions Program are featured today on the
front page of the Washington Post's Style section.
Please give it a read and tell me what you think about it. There's a lot of discussion in the office today . . . "Accurate." "Love it!" "Too snarky!" "What's this 'Army' stuff?" "Ugh," etc.
The takeaway for me was that the
Post did get this right: Colson does see a crisis in the church, he isn't riding off into the sunset (or the golf course), and he's spending all of his time teaching others his understanding of the faith and Christian worldview.
Would love your thoughts.
Comments:
But all in all, I don't think it was negative exposure and it definitely conveyed that Chuck's Christianity is real and not false and his work sincere.
http://www.getreligion.org/2011/03/mean-girls-take-on-chuck-colson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mean-girls-take-on-chuck-colson
As such, I don't think the article has a general framework of Chuck's selflessness and desire to serve God. There are certainly elements of it that are accurate and endearing, but the idea that he is trying to clone "himself" rather than help do within others what has been done within him is probably not the message that fits his personality the best. He does not want mini-Chuck Colsons so much as movement of fellow believers who have been as dramatically transformed as he has. The transformation in his life was DEFINITELY well said in the article.
I also don't know Chuck as well as many of the other BP contributors to this blog, and will defer to their thoughts first on what Chuck really wants to do with his ministry and what he wants his legacy to be.