Marxist ideas are surfacing all over the world. We need to educate, especially the younger generation, about the toxic ideas developed by Karl Marx and spread through nearly every institution.

Dr. Erwin Lutzer has written an important book, Marx and Moody, to educate Christians and draw some important distinctions between Marxism and Christianity. He was on my radio program to talk about his book and educate my listeners.

We talked about the fact that he had been to both gravesites. As the former senior pastor of The Moody Church in Chicago, he often visited the grave of D.L. Moody in Northfield, Massachusetts. More recently, when he was in London, he also stood by the grave of Karl Marx and delivered a message that warned about the incalculable damage that resulted from the pen of Karl Marx.

One of his chapters provides a summary of some of the major points of the Communist Manifesto. Another chapter deals with Democratic Socialism, which he calls Marxism Lite. These chapters clearly show the difference between a Marxist and Christian worldview.

His chapters on D.L. Moody present the story of someone who many refer to as the “Billy Graham of his day.” Like Marx he observed the problems of urbanization and industrialization. Chicago had poverty, human and animal waste, and many diseases. He preached the gospel but also provided practical, biblical programs to deal not only with people’s souls but with their significant social and moral problems.

His book ends with a challenge: two tombstones, one choice. The question is: What will be our epitaph on our tombstone? Individually and collectively, we need to answer that question.