Let’s start with a quick quiz. Name this book:The United States is in great peril because it has abandoned its Christian roots and is being taken over by people who are immersed in a humanistic worldview which is antithetical to God. The result will be a tyranny which will oppress Good Christians everywhere. Trick question, obviously. There are thousands of books fitting that description. Even more books fitting that description will be published in the next six months. And the six months … [Read more...] about Battle Cry in the Culture War
Francis Schaeffer
Schaeffer and the Modern Evangelical
“We live in a post-Christian world. What should be our perspective as individuals, as institutions, as orthodox Christians, as those who claim to be Bible-believing? How should we look at this post-Christian world and function as Christians in it?...The church in our generation needs reformation, revival, and constructive revolution.” (italics in original)That is the opening paragraph of a book. In what year was this book written? It seems like something that could have been written in … [Read more...] about Schaeffer and the Modern Evangelical
The World is Watching the Church
Sometimes a book from a half-century ago is the best way to see the problems of the modern age. Francis Schaeffer’s The Church Before the Watching World is a book like that. Schaeffer begins by noting there are two seemingly conflicting principles governing the church: 1. “the principle of the practice of the purity of the visible church in regard to doctrine and life,” and 2. “the principle of the practice of an observable love and oneness among all true Christians regardless of who and … [Read more...] about The World is Watching the Church