On Thursday, July 10, I was able to attend a reception at the US Capitol building. It was held to launch a new DVD hosted by Charles Colson entitled Politics and the Christian Faith. Dr. Colson, former special council to President Richard Nixon and founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries, was in attendance and I had the distinct pleasure of meeting him.
As I approach the end of my undergraduate study, I am bombarded with questions about my calling. My internship here at Faith and Action has only made the questions more intense. Should I be a lawyer, a politician, a lobbyist, or a preacher? What is the best way to reach the degrading culture of America? What is more powerful, the Gospel of Jesus or governmental reform? Is the Church doing enough?
With all these questions and ideas running through my head, I thought I would seize the moment and ask Dr. Colson what he thought. I asked him this: What is the best way to change America? Does the most effective change come through politics or through the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Which should I choose to be my vocation?
Dr. Colson said that preaching the Gospel and governing hold equal importance because they are both ordained by God. As far as which one I should choose, he could not comment, but he did give me an illustration. He asked me to remember the scene in “Chariots of Fire” when others were urging Eric Liddell to stop running. Liddell responded this way: [1]“I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.” Dr. Colson told me to find the thing in my life that, in doing it, I felt the pleasure of God.
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082158/quotes
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