....“(L’Abri) has been eye-opening to say the least,” Brekke said. “It tends to rearrange my thinking. It focuses on the interface between Christianity, culture and arts, which is an area the church doesn’t normally direct itself toward. The talks are enlightening. You might say revolutionary and a bit controversial because it doesn’t speak kindly to mainstream evangelical culture.”
Related threads:
The Letters of Francis Schaeffer
Letter One: The Reawakening of Spiritual Reality
Letter Two: Gradually My Thinking Has Changed
Letter Three: On Resting
Letter Four: A Root Planted in a Garden
Letter Five: On Sickness
Letter Six: The Art of Spiritual Growth
Letter Seven: No Perfect People, Physically or Psychologically
Letter Eight: Being Angry at God
Letter Nine: Something with Both Usefulness and Beauty
Letter Ten: On Knowing the Presence of God
Letter Eleven: Imperfection and the Continuing Work of Christ
Letter Twelve: Spiritual Battles Draw Real Blood
Letter Thirteen: Times of Strength and Times of Weakness
Letter Fourteen: Salvation, Works and Grace, Eternal Security, and the Sacraments
Letter Fifteen: Do Not Be Afraid of the Past
Letter Sixteen: Everything Is Spiritual Because God Made Everything
Letter Seventeen: Quiet In the Presence of God
Other threads
Remembering Francis Schaeffer [25th anniversary of his death: May 15, 1984]
Schaeffer scholars continue his legacy
A Step Forward [Francis Schaeffer on the formation of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) ]
Not Your Father's L'Abri: Swiss retreat now tends to disaffected evangelicals
A (Borrowed) Christmas Reflection [Francis A. Schaeffer's "What Difference Has Looking Made?"]
Using her voice
Morality starts with humanity
Learning to Cry for the Culture: Let's remember Francis Schaeffer's most crucial legacy--tears.
Meeting, talking with Ford always a pleasure
BAPTISM, by Francis Schaeffer [Schaeffer's defense of paedobaptism]
Baylor prof says Francis Schaeffer returned to fundamentalist views [Francis A. Schaeffer]
A Christian Manifesto (Francis A. Schaeffer)
"...Our culture and our country deserve to be under the wrath of God..."
Love Francis Schaeffer!! Saw him at the LA airport many yrs ago. He was very short and had on shorts and suspenders and knee socks. Didn’t want to bother him because he looked in a hurry. His books are great.
For those who would like to know more about Dr. Schaeffer’s teachings I would recommend they start with the book “How shall we than live?”. It is one of his best and easily the most accessible of his works. If you like what you read then move up to “The Francis Schaeffer Trilogy”. These three books provide the theological and philosophical underpinnings for everything Schaeffer wrote.
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Just a word of caution. “The way of Jesus” or “in the way of Christ” is emerging church speak. They believe there are many paths to God, and that Jesus isn’t the only way. That’s why they use this phrase. Also, the conference’s “emphasis on the arts, culture, and faith” also smells like emerging church to me.
The workshop on “The mystery of prayer” has me wondering if they are talking about mysticism, aka unbiblical contemplative spirituality.
There is also a workshop about the heretical, universalist, New Age book “The Shack.”
This deception is creeping in everywhere these days, even among previously well-respected Christian organizations and leaders. Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) is now dabbling in contemplative/emergent. Be watchful, be vigilant!