A Response to Colson's Fantasies
I hear
Colson every day on the radio. It’s amazing but whatever the topic he has an
almost perfect track record, he gets it wrong almost every time.
The latter part of the 20th century has seen some incredibly destructive forces at work in the Church...
Francis Schaeffer, RJ Rushdoony, Billy Graham, Pat
Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Chuck Colson are all part of the
generation that is rapidly disappearing.
The new
generation is just as bad if not worse…except for one thing. Their errors are
perhaps more obvious in some ways. Maybe I’m fooling myself to think that, but
it would seem the Joyce Meyer’s, the Joel Osteen’s, the Rick Warren’s and the
Brian McLaren’s are so obvious that no one reading their Bible would fall for
them…but I guess people still do. The nature of the error changes or in some
cases is just repackaged and tracks differently.
But you
have to hand it to Colson, he’s achieved some pretty amazing stuff. Within a
generation he softened the Evangelical posture toward Roman Catholicism and
that coupled with Dominionism’s ever growing fondness for the Middle Ages has
brought about a new appreciation for Rome and its errors.
He’s
influenced a lot of people and done great harm to the cause of Christ and His
Kingdom. Here’s yet another interaction with his daily commentary. Today’s just
put me over the edge. He contradicts himself terribly and he has either a very
inverted sense of truth, reality or both.