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• Illustration: Colson comments on a Washington Post article that understands radical changes in political views but can't understand his conversion to Jesus Christ.
• Illustration: Colson comments on a Newsweek article about the baby boomers' obsession with money.
• Illustration: Colson tells about a man renting a car who insisted upon having a black Lincoln Continental.
• Illustration: Colson tells his own life story to show that nothing but a relationship with God through Jesus Christ can give us security.
• God doesn't demand our achievement, he demands our obedience.

• Be careful to discern what's really Christian.
• Understand that being a Christian won't necessarily be comfortable.

• The Bible is the inerrant, inspired Word of God, and you can live and trust your life under its authority.
• Read the Bible and let it change you.

• Holiness is not following a set of rules.
• Holiness is conforming to the character of God.
• Faith in action is true holiness.
  - Illustration: Christian convicts demonstrated holiness by helping rebuild the home of a poor family, and people running a home for relatives of prisoners demonstrated holiness to those staying there.

• We are called to be a different people, changed by God.
  - Illustration: Cathleen Webb, who lied about a man raping her, confessed to her lie because God changed her.
• We must not take the grace of God for granted.

• If you are committed to radical Christianity in direct opposition to a culture consumed with self, your course is not without peril.
• God wants us to live our lives as men and women committed to obedient Christian living.