Colson On Getting Our Loves In Order

(Responding to a statement from Episcopal bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori, that the church’s central mission is “to love each other” rather than “bickering” about “fine points of doctrine):

…as we have seen, right doctrine leads to the love of neighbor Schori would like to see practiced. And without first loving God, the first commandment she ignored, we can’t love our neighbor with the consistency and stamina this world demands… The mission of the church is perverted as well. When truth is abandoned, therapy takes its place. We learn how to cope with our problems instead of curing them.

—Chuck Colson, The Faith (Zondervan, 2008), p. 65, emphasis added.