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The church is something beautiful

Francis Schaeffer

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Francis Schaeffer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: May 15
Author
Philosopher
Theologian
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
Francis August Schaeffer
Francis A. Schaeffer
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Church
Beautiful

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So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
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I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
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The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral.
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There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.
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If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.
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God has ordained the state as a delegated authority it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.
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Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.
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The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.
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In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in our society. We have been relegated to a cultural backwater, where we are meant to paddle around content in the knowledge that we are merely allowed to exist.
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Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.
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Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.
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Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.
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Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital 'T.' Truth about total reality, not just about religious things. Biblical Christianity is Truth concerning total reality - and the intellectual holding of that total Truth and then living in the light of that Truth.
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To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.
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Truth carries with it confrontation.
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Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.
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If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.
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Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
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