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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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    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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    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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    Timely even 25 years later

    With the turn of each page, I wondered if he wrote this.yesterdau. what prophetic insight and helpful lasting truths. having a larger framework to Creation,the Fall, Redemption, Restorative helps us address what is going on in our world and how we can engage people to think diffrronanswer the ontological questions we all wrestle with: How did I get here? What is the purpose of my life? Where am I going?

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    A great summary of the difference between the secular and Christian worldview

    Great book. A good compliment to Nancy Pearcys book Total Truth. I love the comment about principle versus power. I think that is a foundational difference in many of the topics of today.

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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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    1st Audio

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

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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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    Timely Book in Todays World

    Easy read but challenging, thought provoking in todays culture. Should be read by all Christians today to help understand and explore how we should live as Christians

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    Pursuing a Christmas Worldview in a Brother Would

    Practical, engaging insights to Christianity that go far beyond heating and believing. Colson has the timeless "been there, don that" insights that grow and matur Christmas. Winsom, intentional, and sage insights in today's increasingly secular world.

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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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