“Private Decisions”

                                                                                                       Vol. XX, No. 3, March 2007

Yes, cultures can be renewed-even those typically considered the most corrupt and intractable. But if we are to restore our world, we first have to shake off the comfortable notion that Christianity is merely a personal experience, applying only to one's private life. No man is an island, wrote the Christian poet John Donne. Yet one of the great myths of our day is that we are islands, that our decisions are personal and that no one has a right to tell us what to do in our private lives. We easily forget that every private decision contributes to the moral and cultural climate in which we live, rippling out in ever widening circles, first in our personal and family lives, and then in the broader society.

     Chuck Colson & Nancy Pearcey, How Now Shall We Live, (Tyndale House, 1999) p. 294