In 1951 Francis Schaeffer’s life and ministry were turned upside
down, despite already having walked with the Lord for many years and
having seen much fruit in ministry. He was 39.
In the introduction to his book True Spirituality, Schaeffer recounts what happened.
I faced a spiritual crisis in my own life. I had become a
Christian from agnosticism many years ago. After that I had become a
pastor for ten years in the United States, and then for several years my
wife, Edith, and I had been working in Europe. During this time I felt a
strong burden to stand for the historical Christian position and for
the purity of the visible church. Gradually, however, a problem came to
me—the problem of reality. This has two parts: first, it seemed to me
that among many of those who held the orthodox position one saw little
reality in the things that the Bible so clearly says should be the
result of Christianity. Second, it gradually grew on me that my reality
was less than it had been in the early days after I had become a
Christian. I realized that in honesty I had to go back and rethink my
whole position. Keep Reading...
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