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