Theonomists and the Gospel

Since 1993, I have posted hundreds of articles on my website concerning Christian Reconstruction. I've even written the highest ranked article on "Theonomy" on the Internet. (Google search "theonomy" if you don't believe me.) I've also produced several video presentations from a Christian Reconstructionist viewpoint.

While there are a lot of other theological passions that drive me, I am more known on the world wide web by quotes from my Theonomy FAQ than any other piece of writing I've done. It's quoted in hundreds of places. It's far from my best work, and I am not one of the major Reconstructionist writers, so I am surprised at the attention paid to this piece. Since I've received more than my allotted 15 minutes of unlikely fame (or infamy?) as a mere chronicler of the Reconstructionist movement, I have a few observations to make.

1. One of the reasons I first became interested in Christian Reconstruction in the first place was because of the distortions by Christians and non-Christians alike. There is a lot of animosity toward postmillennial (that is, optimistic and victorious) eschatology and God's Law. I understand why non-believers feel threatened by the oracles of God, but I've never understood why Christians are so afraid of this association. If I see a theology that is within the pale of orthodoxy which I don't agree with, I study it so that I can decide exactly why I don't agree. Often we are most afraid of what we don't understand.

2. There is little understanding about Christian Reconstruction (and especially theonomy and postmillennialism) among Christians. The most popular refutation is that imposing the Old Testament penal sanctions in capital cases would be "cruel, barbaric and harsh." Christians often don't stop to think that the God of the Old Testament who gave these Laws is Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, who was present in the Godhead when the Law was given to Moses. These Christians don't stop to think that they are impugning Jesus as "cruel, barbaric, and harsh" when they reject the Law out of hand. A more fitting objection would be that the application of the Law has changed under the New Covenant. Ironically, this an aspect of the theonomy upon which virtually all theonomists agree!

3. The other objection is that Reconstructionists are people who want to use politics to enforce the Gospel or that theonomists believe that God's kingdom can be brought about by killing who we think are "God's enemies." Usually a few choice quotes (including some by me) are wrenched out of context in order to make theonomists appear to be the "Christian equivalent of the Taliban." I even had a former pastor tell me that a society run by biblical law would be no different than an Islamo-fascist dictatorship. How low a view of God's Law! In fact, Christian Reconstructionists believe that the Law of God is only a tutor to point people to Christ. The Law can never save people. However, we do measure our growth in sanctification by the Law. Codifying the Law of God in a converted society would add glory to the Gospel because it would reflect God's character in the civil realm.

Below is a more accurate view of theonomy and the Gospel in the words of the leaders of the Christian Reconstuctionist movement.

[Quotes complied by David Field]

"It must be stressed that the creation of a Christian nation could
be accomplished only as a result of the widespread work of the Holy
Spirit, not through some bureaucratic top-down, coercively imposed
order on a non-Christian majority by a Christian minority. --G.
North, Healer of the Nations" [p.34]

"It is the missionary ... who is best equipped to begin the bottom-
up process of evangelism that ultimately leads to the establishment
of a covenanted confederation of Christian nations." --Healer [p.157]

"We must seek reform first in the Church, not in the State. The
focus on the State as the primary institution of life is the
humanist myth of the age. It must not become the myth of Christian
reconstruction." --Healer [p.287]

"What is God's historic means of making the world better ? The
preaching of the gospel." --Gary North, Reduction of Christianity
[p.xx]

"One of the distinctives of Christian reconstruction is its aversion
to the use of politics as the method to bring about social
change .... But why all the attention to politics in
reconstructionist literature ... ? The answer is very simple.
Politics has become the saviour of the people. Reconstructionists
write about politics and civil government in order to call
Christians and non-Christians back to their only Saviour, the Lord
Jesus Christ." --Gary DeMar, Reduction [p.21f]

"Christian reconstructionists are looking for the transformation of
all of society, including families, churches, business
establishments, the legal profession, education, economics,
journalism, the media and civil government through personal
redemption and adherence to the Bible as the standard for godly
rule." --Reduction [p.23]

"Dominion comes through service ... It is idolatrous to seek
dominion primarily by political means, whether by domination or
anarchic revolution." -- Reduction [p.25]

"Evangelism is the starting point of social transformation." --
Reduction [p.189]

"The key to remedying the [present] situation is ... regeneration.
There is no hope for man except in regeneration ... True reform
begins with regeneration and then the submission of the believer to
the whole law-word of God."
--R J Rushdoony, Institutes of Biblical Law, [pp.113, 449, 627]

"The chief blessing of the kingdom is forgiveness of sins"
--Reduction [p.217]

"It is through the Spirit-filled church, proclaiming the gospel,
that the kingdom of Christ extends throughout the world."
--Reduction, [p.220]

"The negative reaction to social reform comes from secularized
attempts to do what only the gospel can do. This reaction is
legitimate but it should not deter Christians from being truly
evangelical in their attempts at reform."
--Reduction, [p.286]

"If we really do need a graduate school in theology, let us finance
one. But let us no longer fool the donors into believing that this
sort of rarified academic institution is necessary or even useful
for training pastors ... For now, let us get on with the task at
hand: the evangelization of the world."
--Gary North, Theonomy: An Informed Response, [p.340f]

"The authors of this book ... know very well that Christian faith
centers on the saving work of Jesus Christ. They profess to love the
Savior with all their heart. They know that their new life in Him,
their new status of being right with God, and their hope of eternal
life have been granted to them by the grace of God. They have
nothing of which to boast. With Paul they would say, 'Far be it from
me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through
which the world has been crucified unto me and I unto the world'.
Having been saved from the world, their concern is to love their
Lord with all their heart, soul, strength and mind. They now want to
walk in those good works which God intends for them. They make a
sincere effort to heed the words of Christ to 'seek above all the
kingdom of God and His righteousness'. They know that this kingdom,
for which they pray regularly, will not be consummated until after
the return of Jesus Christ and the final judgment, when all
believers will then rejoice in a new heaven and earth wherein
righteousness dwells. In the meantime they seek to perfect personal
holiness in the fear of God and to make all the nations disciples of
their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is only in the light and
context of these beliefs and practices that they see and understand
their Reconstructionist position in ethics and eschatology."
--Greg Bahnsen, House Divided, [p.3f]

"It must be understood the Reconstructionists believe that
evangelism is the absolute pre-condition to worldwide,
postmillennial, theocratic success ... We insist that cultural
influence and change are to be promoted by God's people - who are
saved by grace alone - at large in their callings, not by the
institutional Church as such."
--Ken Gentry, House Divided, [p.194]

"Evangelism, leading to baptism, comes first".
--Ken Gentry, House Dived, [p.194]

"Christian Reconstructionists do not believe that man can be
fundamentally changed by changing the conditions of society. Instead
we believe that society will be changed when men are first changed
inwardly by the Gospel and then seek to apply that change to the
spheres of life in which they are involved."
--Tony Baxter, "Theonomy" article in "Calvinism Today" magazine I.4
17

"First and foremost, our emphasis is on the proclamation of the
saving power of God through Jesus Christ; and then the regenerate
man applying the whole word of God to every sphere of life."
--R J Rushdoony, "Calvinism Today" II.1 14

"The message of the kingdom of God rests on a concept of salvation
which is supernaturally imparted, not politically imparted."
--Gary North, Tools of Dominion, [p.38]

"The primary need today, as always, is the need for widespread
personal repentance before God."
--Gary North, Tools of Dominion, [p.39]

"The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and
missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the
great mass of earth's inhabitants will place themselves under
Christ's protection, and voluntarily use His covenantal laws for
self-government. Christian reconstruction begins with personal
conversion to Christ and self-government under God's law, then
spreads to others through revival and only later does it bring
comprehensive changes in civil law, when the vast majority of voters
voluntarily agree to live under Biblical blueprints."
--Gary North, Tools of Dominion, [p.55]

"The key to cultural transformation is the gospel."
--David Chilton, Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt
Manipulators, [p.234]

"My slogan is 'politics fourth' ... it is my concern after
individual salvation, church membership and family membership."
--Gary North, Westminster's Confession, [p.158]

"The goal of Christian political action then is not to usher in a
theocracy but to acknowledge the theocracy that already exists ....
Christian political action is not supposed to impose a messianic
kingdom from the top down. Only God can lawfully control the hearts
of men by imposing His rule .... Christian political action is
therefore a bottom-up and inside-out process."
--George Grant, Changing of the Guard, [p.11]

"The orthodox Christian faith cannot be reduced to personal
experiences, academic discussions, or culture-building activity - as
important as all these are in varying degrees. The essence of
Biblical religion is the worship of God .... True Christian
reconstruction of culture is far from being simply a matter of
passing Law X and electing Congressman Y. Christianity is not a
political cult. It is the divinely ordained worship of the Most High
God." --David Chilton, Paradise Restored, [p.215]

"I forthrightly reject any reduction of the sacred message to
moralism or politics ... the central thrust of the bible is
recognized to be the accomplishment and application of salvation to
God's people." --Greg Bahnsen, Theonomy, [p.33f]

"I don't disagree that the issues taken up in Theonomy are of
subordinate importance in the Christian life, preaching of the
church, range of theological loci etc ... Surely the fact that some
Christians take up the question of God's law and its relation to
modern penology - and that some write on the subject - does not mean
that they believe that subject is the most vital issue for all
believers (or even for themselves)."
-- Greg Bahnsen, No Other Standard, [p.43]

"We may readily grant that socio-political reconstruction has less
urgency than personal spirituality or the church, but this does not
bear whatsoever upon the truth or error of the theonomic standard
for politics." -- Bahnsen, No Other, p.51

These are the books and magazines from which the quotations come. Most of these can be gotten cheaply as used copies on Amazon.com.

The Changing of the Guard - George Grant
Calvinism Today (magazine)
Healer of the Nations - Gary North
House Divided - Greg Bahnsen & Kenneth Gentry
Theonomy: An Informed Response - ed. Gary North
Inherit the Earth - Gary North
The Institutes of Biblical Law - R.J. Rushdoony
No Other Standard - Greg Bahnsen
Paradise Restored - David Chilton
Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt-Manipulators - David
Chilton
The Reduction of Christianity - Peter Leithart & GaryDeMar
Theonomy in Christian Ethics - Greg Bahnsen
Tools of Dominion - Gary North
Westminister's Confession - Gary North

Young, Restless and Reformed

I usually don't read Christianity Today magazine, because, as the prophet Clint Eastwood once said, “A man’s gotta know his limitations.” But I was interested in reviewing this article when it was first mentioned on the web.

"Young, Restless and Reformed" is now online at:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/009/42.32.html

What Christianity Today notes as a growing phenomenon, actually began in the 1950s in England and Scotland when Banner of Truth began republishing the long out-of-print Puritan classics. The article mentions Jonathan Edwards as having a modern resurgence in popularity among young Christians who want to go deeper in doctrine – along with the writings of Puritan and Neo-Puritan churchmen who literally led revolutions in England, Scotland and America from the 1500s to 1776. Nothing short of a mighty Neo-Puritan Awakening can awake our nation from its slumber today and save us from enemies within and without.

Calvinism, of course, was the prevailing theology of Puritan America and the Great Awakening. It fueled the political philosophy of the American Revolution and was prevalent during the so-called Second Great Awakening of the 1800s. But around 1850, Reformed theology started to die off. Some blame classic Arminianism for its demise. However, Classic and Wesleyan Arminianism actually worked in tandem with Reformed theology for hundreds of years bolstering Christian culture. The real culprit in my view was dispensational theology which began to replace the full-orbed covenantal view of scripture in the 1800s.

See my article on covenantalism vs. dispensationalism: “Two Views of Government.”

Now there is a resurgence of Reformed and covenantal theology which has been going on since the mid-20th century. I have been a part of this, although I have never called myself a “Calvinist.” I have always enjoyed reading the sermons and works of the great preachers of history, most of whom happen to be Augustinian or Reformed.

I’ve been a member of St. Andrew’s Chapel in Sanford, Florida, for the past few years. The noted Reformed scholar, R.C. Sproul, serves as the pastor of preaching and teaching. Many of my Charismatic and Pentecostal friends are surprised to know how happy I am with this church. The emphasis on Reformed theology is a drawing point, but it is the emphasis on just plain “sane theology” and God-centered worship that sets the church apart from almost every central Florida church I had visited in the few years prior. In fact, it is well worth the 55 minute drive each Sunday. I know of other members who actually drive longer distances and almost never miss a service. That speaks of a famine for sound doctrine in an area that is saturated with churches.

The positive side of this is that there is a real hunger among a minority of young Christian leaders who I believe God is grooming for a coming Great Awakening among young people. Like the prior Great Awakenings, this movement will be Reformed in doctrine. I’ve thought this was coming for the past 15 years. At one time, we planned to publish a magazine called Puritan Storm Rising. Now it is remarkable to see a major evangelical magazine comment on the burgeoning Neo-Puritan Awakening.

What do Reformed Christians have to say to other Christians?

The Five Points of Calvinism all necessarily flow from the sovereignty of God (which is not one of the five points) and the total depravity of man (the first point). These are two of the most important things to understand when communicating the Gospel. Yet most Christians have a deficient view of both.

I recently took a Shakespeare class at Rollins College and had the privilege of having a conversation with a Roman Catholic college professor (also the English Department chairman) who thinks of himself as a conservative. He complained about the fact that evangelicals say that Jews go to hell if they don’t believe in Jesus. We had a conversation about the idea of "merit" and I said the key work on merit was Martin Luther's Bondage of the Will.

If you believe that man is able to do nothing to save himself and deserves hell, then these debates about the Jews who won’t accept Jesus; those who have had no chance to hear the Gospel; those dying in infancy; the severely mentally handicapped; etc. – all have little meaning. If God chooses to save some or all of them, then it is by grace alone, just as it by grace alone for the believer who has made a conscious creedal assent to Jesus as the Son of God. We can be sure that He has chosen at least some for salvation from every nation in every generation.

In fact, only a Reformed perspective can consistently hold out hope for all Jews to be saved.

In his book, Holiness, J.C. Ryle devotes a first chapter to sin.

I edited a summary of this chapter a few years back. I retitled it: "Whatever Happened to Sin?"

If we don't understand the depths of sin, it is pointless even to talk about salvation, let alone the second point of Calvinism: God's Unconditional Election – or the latter three points of Calvinism: Limited Atonement, Irresistable Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints (TULIP).

The other base to cover is the idea of God's Will. If God is indeed an omnipotent being then His will is all-encompassing. I came to the conclusion a few years ago, that in order to be a consistent Arminian, one must either deny the omnipotence or omniscience of God. If God is all powerful, then He is able to save everyone but chooses (actively) to save some, but not others.

Rather than go through the five points, I would start with those three points:

Do you believe?

1. Man is totally depraved and can merit nothing to save himself
2. God is both omnipotent and omniscient
3. The will of an Omnipotent Being is always active and never
passive.

Once you accept Absolute Sovereignty of God and the Total Depravity of Man then the U.L.I.P. follows.

For more on the Five Points of Calvinism:

http://forerunner.com/chalcedon/X0016_11._Canons_of_Dort.html

Pope's lecture causes uproar in the Muslim world

Christianity is the only reasonable religion and only "reason" (LOGOS) can show us that advancing the truth by the force of violence negates the truth that we are trying to demonstrate.

That is what I got out of the Bishop of Rome Benedict XVI's lecture on "Faith, Reason and the University Memories and Reflections." This is the speech that has caused an uproar in the Muslim world. On the most basic level, it's an interesting history lesson about a dialogue that occurred in the 14th century between a leader of Persia and the Byzantine Emperor, even while the city of Byzantium was under seige by Muslims.

As a result of the declaration that "reason" (LOGOS) is supreme, and violence cannot advance truth, riots have erupted in the Muslim world and churches have been bombed.

I read the first part to the speech (and skim read the remainder) and I think it is a good example of "reasonableness." Of course, the speech's rendering by the very unreasonable drive-by-media has blown it up into a fiasco that has angered many Muslims to violence. Of course, most of those reading the media reports have not actually read the speech itself.

I am interested in other responses to the speech -- especially from my truly Reformed and Roman Catholic friends. Benedict makes some thought provoking comments about the Reformed faith and Kantian philosophy that have gone uncritiqued in the light of the Islamic uproar.

It's ironic that Muslims would respond to criticism of Islam as a violent religion with violence. It would be even more ironic if the truly reformed did not provide a reasonable response to the implied statement that many Protestants have "set aside thinking in order to make room for faith."

Here is the link to the pope's lecture:

Faith, Reason and the University

Forerunner Blog Feed

After some months of publishing a blog, I thought I should write a brief explanation on how to subscribe to The Forerunner blog feed.

What is a blog feed?

Most blogs have a feed of their content, sometimes known as an RSS or an ATOM feed.

You can use a stand-alone program to subscribe to feeds of websites you are interested in and read them in the program when you have some free time. One advantage of subscribing to blog feeds is that you can know when new content is added to your favorite websites.

Firefox and Internet Explorer 7.0 now have this functionality within the browser itself.

You can also use a web-based feedreader. For instance, if you have a Yahoo! account, you can add http://forerunner.com/blog/atom.xml to your RSS content and you will see something like this:



If you don't have an RSS reader, go to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/forerunner and you'll see something like this:



Then you should choose one of those little icons (called "chicklets") under "subscribe now" and feedburner will add The Forerunner RSS feed to a personalized web page of your choice. You can add as many RSS feeds as you want to one web page, that way you can keep track new content on your favorrite web sites by just looking at one page.

You have already seen RSS feeds everywhere whether you realize it or not. This is how most news services add fresh content to their web sites on a daily basis. But did you know that you can easily publish your own blog for free and publish the content?

A QUICK PRIMER ON BLOGGING AND CREATING RSS FEEDS --

Do you want to set up a blog in just a few minutes:

Go to: blogger.com and follow the directions. These are really easy!

Do you have a blog and need help adding RSS feeds to your blog?

That's also easy and here is how you can do it:

Log into your blogger account

Go to "settings"

Go to "site feed"

Copy the "site feed url"

Then go to www.feedburner.com

Scroll down to where it says: "Ready to burn your feed? Type your feed or blog URL here" and paste your "site feed url" and then click "next." You'll be at "select services." There are lots of options on that page and you can look through them all, but to get to the feeds you need to go to the bottom of that page and click on "next."

Then you can log in or sign up. It's free to sign up. After you fill in your info then click and that page will allow you to "activate your feed". Click on that and then click on "launch your publicity tools" and then click on "chicklet chooser." Then you have many options. I always choose "My Yahoo" and "XML." Click on each one and you'll see the code you need to copy and paste. You'll have to do it for each one.

Then just go back to your blog template and paste it in the links section. You're set. As you can see there are other different things you can do at feedburner.com. So look around and check them all out.

That is just the basics of getting a feed up. Now, when you get that feed added let me know so I can add you to my personal My.Yahoo page!

God's Law and Society Study Guide available for free download

A few years ago, I produced a video series called, God's Law and Society with Eric Holmberg and Reel to Real Ministries.

The video was an outgrowth of a web site I created with on-line streaming interviews with ten Christian leaders, we called it: The Second American Revolution.

Once the website was created, I wrote brief introductions and conclusions to each "program." We added a half dozen more participants to our "panel of experts" and produced a ten part, four hour long video presentation. It wasn't too difficult to put together a study guide after that. For the past few years, the guide has existed only in electronic text format as a Microsoft Word file. I've emailed this people who bought the video when they requested it.

Last month, I bought the Adobe Creative Suite which has enabled me to offer this in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. The Study Guide can be used as a companion to the video series or by itself.

Download your free copy at: http://forerunner.com/law/glsbook.pdf

Thoughts on location, location, location

I was recently updating the God's Law and Society Study Guide for an on-line version available at: www.forerunner.com/law/glsbook.pdf. The introduction has a brief biography and contact information for each of the Christian leaders featured in the presentation. I was amazed that almost every one of the addresses of these people had changed in the past five years. In most cases, it was not a move across the country, but a P.O. Box or a website address.

If this book had appeared in print format as we had originally planned, almost all of the contact information would have changed and it would be useless to the reader. Thankfully, God has graciously given us electronic text and the Internet and such information can be instantly changed.

I have had the same mailing address since 1993 and the same website and email address since 1996. The mailing address is a small inconvenience in that I have moved a few miles away from Melbourne. But I keep the mailing address because it is printed in books, magazines, newspapers and video format in countries from the United States, South Africa, Latin America, Russia, Ukraine and literally around the globe.

Similarly, I was offered $7000 this summer if i would sell my domain name: www.forerunner.com. When I refused the first two offers the negotiator wanted to continue. I explained that they were not even close to what my domain name is worth to me. Although that was no small amount of money to refuse, it is less than what I would have to lose as far as contacts and new opportunities to connect with people. In the past year alone, the web site has had over one million visitors. That's the fruit of 20 years of editing a publication of some type. I look at my physical address in the same manner. I wonder how many people lose contact with ministries because they are constantly changing their mailing address, email and web domain? As in real estate, location is everything.

The Spirit of Massachusetts

About 20 years ago, the state of Massachusetts launched a campaign to compete with "I Love New York" and "Virginia is for Lovers." Since then, I haven't seen too many "The Spirit of Massachusetts is the Spirit of America" bumper stickers and t-shirts. Nevertheless, that statement is a profound truth. For good or evil, the spiritual trends that have taken place in Massachusetts since 1620 have influenced the rest of the nation and even the world. While Massachusetts is thought of as one of the most liberal and therefore Godless states in the union, there are several signs that a Christian Awakening is under way.

A few years ago, Christianity Today published an article on Boston's "Quiet Revival" -- a growing church movement has doubled the number of evangelicals in Massachusetts even while the population of the state has remained the same. The article notes that it is a "quiet revival" mainly because it is occurring among Hatian, Brazilian, Korean and other Asian churches in inner city Boston and Cambridge -- ethnic churches that few in the white mainstream are aware of.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/104/32.0.html

Soon after that the liberal Boston Globe published an article called "The God Squad" about the growing number of evangelical students at Harvard and MIT. One observer noted that there is a higher percentage of evangelical students at Harvard than at any time since the 17th century. While I think that is an exaggeration (the Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century had a great influence too)even my native Bostonian skepticism is forced to take leave and I admit that God is up to something in Boston.

God On The Quad

The Harvard Crimson has been running a lot of articles on the topic in the past few years. Understand that with a student population of only a few thousand, just a few hundred evangelicals at Harvard is a phenomenon. Contrast this with ten years ago, when the total number of professing conservative Christians was less than one hundred and you see what some have called an "Awakening" of evangelical Christianity. Some say it is a precursor to something major akin to the Awakenings of past centuries.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=357109

In order to really shake the nation, any type of student led revival will have to deviate from the pietistic movements that have characterized "revivals" in the past 100 years. In fact, every revival that has led to a Great Awakening (The Puritan movement, the First and Second Great Awakenings) have been Puritan or "Neo-Puritan" in character. It was when the majority of American churches rejected Calvinism in the mid-1800s that "revival" began to focus more on individual blessings rather than how the revived saints can be salt and light in the society. But even that is changing. Christianity Today this month ran an article about how more and more Christian youth are getting interested in theology and are rejecting the "seeker sensitive" and "emergent" models of church growth. They are looking for something of more substance and are finding it in Calvinism. After all, America was founded not just on Christianity, but on a Protestant model influenced more by the theology and social theory of John Knox and Oliver Cromwell than any other figures.

The Christianity Today article is not on-line yet, but check back at their site to see it eventually -- or pick up a copy at your local Christian book store. I'll be reviewing the article in a few days.

See a review of : Young, Restless and Reformed

Last month also marked the 200th anniversary of the "Haystack Revival" -- a prayer awakening at Williams College in Western Massachusetts led by three students helped to launch the World Missions Movement in America. Students around the world are being asked to fast and pray for a revival of missionary vision among college students. What is strange about the anniversary is not that Christian groups such as InterVarsity are promoting it, but that it is getting favorable mention even from many liberal groups. That secularists would celebrate the positive influence of Christian Missions inthe world needs some explanation that I cannot explain other than a sovereign act of God.

http://haystack.williams.edu/

Haystack Awakening '06

Of course, I've written about these phenomena since 1989 in The Forerunner, so it is actually exciting to see these movements gain a beach head and get noticed by the national press. It's happening at a time when I had almost despaired of ever seeing an Awakeing in the northeast in my lifetime. In 1989, I started a project called The Northeast Invasion. The plan was calculated to flood the Norteast College campuses and especially the Ivy League where future leaders are studying, with Christian literature.

This month we plan to continue this strategy with The Boston Awakening magazine. I was initially hesitant to take on the project, my skeptical nature rising to the forefront, but then I realized a simple truth. When one aims for great things, we only fail when we do not try.