Letters of Francis A. Schaeffer: Spiritual Reality in the Personal Christian Life
Overview
In this collection of Francis Schaeffer’s letters, the personal, spiritual, and practical side of Dr. Schaeffer’s work comes shining through so clearly. Each of us will find here something of ourselves, our frailty and our human need, but also something of what we might become through the transforming presence of Jesus Christ in our lives.
Top Highlights
“There was a girl who was supposed to make cakes in the Les Mélèzes kitchen, and she got all messed up until she had nothing but a mess of goo. It would have seemed as though there was nothing to do but throw the whole mess out. But as you know, we don’t have a great deal of money, and so Edith has learned to be very economical in the kitchen. Thus she sat down and figured out what was in the gooey mess, and by adding an extra ingredient was able to make it into the most marvelous noodles you have tasted in your life.” (Page 108)
“I am more and more realizing that Scripturally none of us are ready for leadership until we come to the place before the Lord where we are really ready for His will—regardless of what it is—and therefore, of ourselves, we would prefer not to have the leadership, or at least be neutral concerning it. It is out of such stuff that true Christian leadership can come.” (Page 34)
“There are indeed many reasons why we should go on living, and the largest one is that God really is there, He really does exist, and He made us for Himself.” (Page 113)
“innermost circle is the spiritual—the personal relationship of the individual soul with a personal God” (Page 49)
“I do not think the Bible is against birth control as such. As I see it, the Bible says that one result of the Fall was increased conception. [Since increased conception is a result of the Fall and therefore abnormal, the use of] birth control in offsetting conception would then be the same as [the use of] medicine [in treating disease which, of course, is another abnormal consequence of the Fall]. The difficulty is, of course, that in the relativistic world in which we live, birth control is then used not only in sexual relationships in marriage, but to make easy promiscuous sexual relationships. But this does not make birth control wrong in itself.” (Page 229)
- Title: Letters of Francis A. Schaeffer: Spiritual Reality in the Personal Christian Life
- Author: Francis Schaeffer
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 1985
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Schaeffer, Francis A. (Francis August) › Correspondence; Christians › Switzerland--Correspondence
- ISBNs: 9780891074090, 0891074090, 9781433516580, 9780891073611, 1433516586, 0891073612
- Resource ID: LLS:LTTRSFRNCSSHFFR
- Resource Type: text.monograph.letters
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:23:36Z
Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) was an evangelical missionary. After studying at Hampden-Sydney College, Westminister Theological Seminary (where he studied under Cornelius Van Til), and Faith Theological Seminary, Schaeffer pastored churches in Pennsylvania and Missouri.
In 1948, Schaeffer moved to Switzerland and founded L’Abri, a community where people discuss philosophy and religion. Thousands of people have passed through L’Abri, and it has expanded into several other countries. Schaeffer held a presuppositional approach to apologetics which many believe heavily influenced the Christian Right movement in the United States.
He was the author of many books, including Escape from Reason and How Should We Then Live?, which have sold millions of copies worldwide.