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Chuck Colson's Prison Ministry Legacy

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 No human life is irredeemable—no one is beyond the reach of God. And if anyone in recent history embodied that truth, it was Chuck Colson.

In 1969, as a young, hard-driving, fast rising political star, Chuck found himself in the oval office, accepting Richard Nixon's offer to become special counsel to the President. As Nixon's hatchet man, he helped to engineer the President's spectacular landslide reelection.

And by 1974, he was in a prison cell, his career and reputation in tatters.

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But the Colson in prison was a changed man. During the darkest days of Watergate, through the witness of a friend and the writings of C. S. Lewis, Chuck Colson had given his hopes, his failures, ambitions, his sin and his life to Jesus Christ.

You probably know the rest of the story. After leaving prison, Chuck dedicated his life to bringing the Gospel of Jesus to prisoners across the country and around the world through Prison Fellowship.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/prison-reform-the-colson-way-134418/

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