RADICAL
INDIVIDUALISM

Topics: Body of Christ; Church; Community; Culture; Individualism; Revival

References: Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 12:12–31; Ephesians 1:22–23; 3:21

Many Christians have been infected with the most virulent virus of modern American life: radical individualism. They concentrate on personal obedience to Christ as if all that matters is “Jesus and me,” but in doing so miss the point. For Christianity is not a solitary belief system. Any genuine resurgence of Christianity, as history demonstrates, depends on a reawakening and renewal of that which is the essence of the faith—the people of God, the new society, the body of Christ, which is made manifest in the world—the church.

—Chuck Colson, The Body (Word, 1992)