http://www.summit.org/ en michael@summit.org Copyright 2013 2013-05-22T16:09:06+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/history-or-just-stories/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/history-or-just-stories/ If we aren’t clear about this, they won’t be either. For the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point. A friend recently asked a group of her Sunday School children, “Is the Bible real history, or is it just a collection of stories?” With few exceptions, the children either didn’t know or said “a bunch of stories.” My friend was shocked, but it makes sense to me. 2013-05-22T16:09:06+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/virginity-ruined-my-marriage/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/virginity-ruined-my-marriage/ Abstinence doesn’t guarantee a good marriage, but that’s not why we do it. For the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point. A few days ago in Salon, Jessica Hernriquez wrote about how she grew up in a Christian home and got a purity ring at church. After years of waiting, she married her high school sweetheart and when the sex disappointed them, they got a divorce. This trouble would have been avoided, she says, if they’d lived together before marriage to see if they were compatible. 2013-05-21T16:44:05+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/did-we-create-gosnell/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/did-we-create-gosnell/ Just when you think you’ve heard it all...For the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point. Writing for The Guardian last month in the midst of abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s murder trial, Jill Filipovic argues that pro-lifers are to blame for this horrifying case because they “promote unnecessary regulations…the very things that allowed Gosnell’s clinic to exist in the first place.” According to Filipovic, those who oppose abortion “make it more difficult and dangerous,” and their goal, she says, (repeating a tired cliché) is not to help women, but to punish them. 2013-05-20T15:46:29+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/what-hath-roe-wrought/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/what-hath-roe-wrought/ Gosnell is guilty. Now what? For the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point. Abortion rights advocates are scrambling to separate what they call “safe” abortion from the atrocities of Kermit Gosnell, who was found guilty Monday of three counts of first degree murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter. Gosnell now faces life sentences for his crime. 2013-05-17T16:27:27+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/its-more-than-morality-its-cosmology/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/its-more-than-morality-its-cosmology/ The debate is about way more than same-sex marriage. For the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point. According to Rod Dreher, Christians lost the debate over same-sex marriage before anybody was even talking about it. In a recent essay. Dreher points out that the fierce debates over same-sex marriage and sexuality in general aren’t just about morality. They’re about worldview, or cosmology, as Dreher puts it. 2013-05-16T16:07:32+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/rare-genomics/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/rare-genomics/ This geneticist is fighting for kids and families. For the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point. A genetics presentation brought me to tears recently, and it wasn’t because the geneticists was a professor and I had to pass a genetics test. No, this was Jimmy Lin, a graduate of the Colson Center’s Centurions program and a 2012 TED fellow with a degree in theology who is almost a medical doctor. He is also the founder of Rare Genomics, which gives families whose children have rare and undiagnosed genetic conditions access to genome sequencing. Leveraging crowdfunding and the big hearts of genetic scientists who are willing to donate their time and mental energy to unsolved genetic mysteries, Rare Genomics is a stunning example of pro-active, creative and redemptive thinking in the world. 2013-05-15T17:19:34+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/proactive-or-reactive/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/proactive-or-reactive/ Proactive beats reactive every time. For the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point. Yesterday I mentioned Dr. Anthony Bradley’s insightful blog post in which he argues the new legalism of today is pressuring young Christians into thinking they have to do big things with their lives, not just settle down, start a family, and live an everyday faithful life. Bradley thinks the phenomenon comes from young Christians reacting against their parents’ Christianity. 2013-05-14T15:10:50+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/the-new-legalism/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/the-new-legalism/ Is “missional” a new legalism? For the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point. Dr. Anthony Bradley of the Kings College in New York hit a nerve with a recent post at the Acton Institute blog by suggested that young Christians today are smothered with a new legalism: “…many young adults,” he said, “feel ashamed if they ‘settle’ into ordinary jobs, get married early and start families, live in small towns, or as 1 Thessalonians 4:11 says, ‘aspire to live quietly, and to mind [their] affairs, and to work with [their] hands.’” 2013-05-13T20:25:08+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/the-gods-we-worship-part-2/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/the-gods-we-worship-part-2/ We don’t just make our idols, they make us. For the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point. Yesterday I said that idol worship is just as alive and well in our culture, as in cultures throughout human history. Psalm 135, which I quoted yesterday, describes how the idols which we make are blind, deaf, and dead. How foolish to worship them! But the next verse says our idols make us blind, deaf, and dead too. “Those who make them, will be like them,” it says. “And so will all who trust in them.” 2013-05-10T21:21:37+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/the-gods-we-worship/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-point/the-gods-we-worship/ Idol worship is alive and well. For the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point. In the 135th Psalm, David – after describing the history of YHWH’s redemptive work for Israel says, “The idols of the nations are silver and gold made by the hands of men. They have mouths but can’t speak, ears but can’t hear, nor is their breath in their mouths.” In other words, idols are dead so why would you worship them? 2013-05-09T15:21:13+00:00