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Being the Body: A New Call for the Church to be Light in the Darkness is unavailable, but you can change that!

Charles Colson has been called, "one of the most important social reformers in a generation." Ten years ago in The Body, Colson turned his prophetic attention to the church and how it might break out of its cultural captivity and reassert its biblical identity. Today the book's classic truths have not changed. But the world we live in has. Christians in America have had their complacency...

Second, the church is more than simply a collection of people; it is a new community. Many modern Christians see the Christian faith primarily, if not exclusively, as the gospel of “Jesus and me.” Christianity is simply a personal relationship with Jesus. Accept Christ into your life and you will be saved. This is true, of course, but it falls short of the whole. We are justified through our individual faith. Yet Christianity is much more than a private transaction with Jesus. When Peter made his