Dec 10, 2019

THE CHURCH HISTORY CYCLE:

"In church history a cycle seems to recur: living orthodoxy moves to dead orthodoxy and then to heterodoxy."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Church Before the Watching World

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Dec 07, 2019

THE BRIDE IN LOVE:

" Our call is first to be the bride [of Christ] faithful, but that is not the total call. The call is not only to be the bride faithful, but to be the bride in love."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Church Before the Watching World

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Dec 30, 2018

AVOIDING THE CLIFF:

"...in our generation the whole direction is toward being unwilling to say that any system is right or wrong...But we must affirm the possibility of right and wrong with regard to systems and categories. We fall off the cliff...if we do not do so."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Some Absolute Limits, Appendix A to The Church Before the Watching world

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Dec 09, 2018

THE CHURCH HISTORY CYCLE:

"In church history a cycle seems to recur: living orthodoxy moves to dead orthodoxy and then to heterodoxy."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Church Before the Watching World

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Dec 08, 2018

THE BRIDE IN LOVE:

" Our call is first to be the bride [of Christ] faithful, but that is not the total call. The call is not only to be the bride faithful, but to be the bride in love."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Church Before the Watching World

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Jul 26, 2018

HOW SCIENCE FORGOT IT'S ORIGINS:

"...the view of the older science (a science whose concept of the uniformity of natural causes in an open system was completely consistent with biblical thought) was being replaced by what I call modern, modern science (a concept which, by the uniformity of natural causes in a closed system, eventually leaves no room for God or a significant man)."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Church Before The Watching World

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Jul 16, 2018

NONDETERMINISTIC:

"Christianity does not have a deterministic system. We must always keep away from any sense of a deterministic system regardless of the phrases used to state such a system. The reason Christianity is nondeterministic is that in Christianity we have a nondetermined God. This cannot be stressed too strongly. God did not create because He had to. He is 'there' and He is 'free,' and His freedom includes the important point that He did not have to create."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, ~ Some Absolute Limits (Appendix to The Church Before The Watching World)

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Jun 21, 2018

THE CIRCLE OF FREEDOM:

"Christianity [doctrinally] is not to be considered a single point or a narrow repetitive line, but as a circle which provides form. Within the circle there is freedom to move in terms of understanding and expression."

~ Francis Schaeffer ~ Some Absolute Limits (Appendix to The Church Before The Watching World)

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May 27, 2018

MODERN-MODERN SCIENCE:

~ Francis Schaeffer, The Church Before The Watching World.

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May 26, 2018

DOCTRINAL FAITHFULNESS:

"We must ask, 'Do I fight merely for doctrinal faithfulness?' This is like the wife who never sleeps with anybody else, but never shows love to her own husband. Is that a sufficient relationship in marriage? No, 10,000 times no. Yet if I am a Christian who speaks and acts for doctrinal faithfulness but do not show love to my divine Bridegroom, I am in the same place as such a wife. What God wants from us is not only doctrinal faithfulness, but our love day by day. Not in theory, mind you, but in practice."

~ Francis Schaeffer, The Church Before The Watching World.

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Jan 31, 2018

DOCTRINAL FAITHFULNESS:

We must ask, “Do I fight merely for doctrinal faithfulness?” This is like the wife who never sleeps with anybody else, but never shows love to her own husband. Is that a sufficient relationship in marriage? No, 10,000 times no. Yet if I am a Christian who speaks and acts for doctrinal faithfulness but do not show love to my divine Bridegroom, I am in the same place as such a wife. What God wants from us is not only doctrinal faithfulness, but our love day by day. Not in theory, mind you, but in practice."

~ Francis Schaeffer, The Church Before The Watching World.

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Dec 14, 2017

THE CHURCH HISTORY CYCLE:

"In church history a cycle seems to recur: living orthodoxy moves to dead orthodoxy and then to heterodoxy."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Church Before the Watching World

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Dec 08, 2017

THE BRIDE IN LOVE:

" Our call is first to be the bride [of Christ] faithful, but that is not the total call. The call is not only to be the bride faithful, but to be the bride in love."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Church Before the Watching World

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Nov 20, 2017