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The factions that Dr. Campolo seeks to reconcile cannot be reconciled outside of the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:13-14). Our political and theological debates today are heated and filled with passion because the issues are far from peripheral--they are life itself. There is no neutrality in an abortion clinic. The child either lives or dies. There is no common ground between child and abortionist. There is no basis for common ground in the state school classroom where God has been thrown out and children are made to suffer for reading their Bibles. There can be no common ground between those who believe that government is the source of our rights and privileges and those who believe that those rights come from the throne room of the Most High God. There is no commonality between those who reject God's eternal Word and those who submit to it.

      "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

      "Wherefore come ye out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you." (II Corinthians 6:14-17)

Men like Tony Campolo cry out, "Reconciliation, common ground, dialogue!" as the sounds of strife can be heard in the streets and in the churches of America. It's the sound of war against God Himself. We hear the angry cries of the sodomites descending on the halls of Congress, demanding acceptance for their perversion and promising to fight until they prevail. We hear the child-sacrificers in their white doctor's coats, brandishing the tools of their trade and daring anyone to stop them in their unquenchable thirst for money and blood. Listen to the anarchy in the pulpits of churches across the land, men and women who claim to speak for God while they ridicule His Holy Word.

No, Tony Campolo doesn't offer us a biblically prescribed vision for the future, neither for America, nor the church. He offers us a vision out of the imagination of his own heart. He has been called upon to repent and he has refused. Yet he continues to influence countless young people across America.

Tony Campolo is scheduled to address tens of thousands of junior high and high school students at the Youth For Christ sponsored DC/LA Youth Conference in June and July of 1997.
Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah
Offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
'Twixt that darkness and that light.
James Russell Lowell