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How Now Shall We Live

By: Charles Colson
Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd
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Christianity is more than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is also a worldview that answers life's basic questions and shows us how we should live as a result of those answers. How Now Shall We Live? equips Christians to confront false worldviews and live redemptively in contemporary culture.

True Christianity goes far beyond John 3:16 - beyond private faith and personal salvation. It is nothing less than a framework for understanding all of reality. It is a worldview.

In How Now Shall We Live?, the 2000 Gold Medallion winner for best book about Christianity and society, Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey show that the great spiritual battle today is a cosmic struggle between competing worldviews.

Through inspiring true stories and compelling teaching, they demonstrate how to:

  • Expose the false views and values of modern culture
  • Live a more fulfilling life the way God created us to live
  • Contend for the faith by understanding how nonbelievers think
  • Build a society that reflects biblical principles.
  • ©1999 Charles Colson (P)2009 christianaudio.com

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    The book's meaning was great however, a lot missing from audible that's in physical version.

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    This appears to be heavily abridged.

    As best as I can tell, this version is missing the end of chapter 15 through chapter 21 according to the boot. Not sure if anything else is missing.

    Audio part 4 begins with "Chapter 14, good intentions" but Good intentions is chapter 22 in the book...

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    Does not follow the paper book

    I enjoyed both versions, but the audio book does not follow the paper form. It’s theoretically an abridged version. However, it is still worth a listen.

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    Heavily Edited - Does not include much of the book.

    This narration does not reflect the printed book. It omits multiple paragraphs in each chapter, sometimes omits multiple paragraphs on a single page, and it appears to omit entire chapters. Frustrating that this is not made clear in Audible.

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    Great Book, horrible audio version

    Wayne Shepard does a fine job reading this book.
    The book is fantastic! I highly recommend it!

    The audio books chapters do not match the print books chapters in any remote way. The audio book has 6 chapters. The print book has 45. The narration doesn't even call out all of the beginnings of the chapters.

    The audiobook leaves out large chunks of the print book.

    I ordered this to be able to switch back and forth between reading and listening. Not possible with this audiobook.

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    The original book is fantastic! However, this version is very much abridged, leaving out many chapters and much information. It should be advertised as so.

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    What a overview of the Christian life!

    This is a super audio and Colson has credibility from life at the top, to his fall with time spent in prison. Our accountability group will use this as a study/ discussion for the fall.

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    A reassertion of one’s role in life

    For those who experience a lack of personal importance in legitimate endeavors in life, this can be a reassurance that what you do is good and contributing to society, There is also advice on what is constructive and what is destructive contribution to culture. The story at the end of the little girl who was photographed running from a flaming village in Viet Nam, having been horribly burned by napalm, that appeared on front pages of newspapers across America during the Viet Nam war, was very touching. It was a story of real forgiveness.

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    Great book

    I struggles at first but by the end I was cheering and loving all that was being shared!

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    Great book!

    This book is worth your time if you are interested in strengthening your relationship with Christ and your neighbors.

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    Fantastic book

    Fantastic work. Intellectually stimulating ...informative, visionary and contains pioneering thought and useful resources. A must read for every Christian.

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