The Church at the End of the 20th Century"Does the church have a future in our generation? I believe the church is in real danger.... We are facing present pressures and a present and future manipulation which will be so overwhelming in the days to come that they will make the battles of the last forty years look like child's play." --Francis A. Schaeffer Today the pressures and battles Schaeffer predicted have engulfed the evangelical church. They come from the moral decay of the surrounding world. They come from the conflict between Christian principles and political ideologies. They come from the growing compromise morally and theologically within the church and among evangelicals in particular. Dr. Schaeffer's insights, republished here, have crucial significance in helping Christians to understand and confront these battles. "Does the church have a future in our generation?" Schaeffer's answer challenges every Christian to examine his or her life for a reality rooted in a personal relationship to Jesus Christ and lived out in an orthodoxy of doctrine, Christian compassion, and true community. |
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... question Dr. Schaeffer raises concerns every Christian- not just as an abstract theological idea , but as a something that affects the daily practice and reality of our Christian faith . These two books look at two different sides of ...
... question . Schaeffer emphasizes that everything hangs on one point - namely , " the existence of a personal relationship to God . " Without this there can be no spir- itual reality either for the individual or in the corporate life of ...
... question of where true Christians may agree and disagree , and what the absolute limits are . As the church today faces the end of the 20th century , the two books combined in this volume provide clear insight into the growing pressures ...
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Contents
The Roots of the Student Revolution | 13 |
The International Student Revolution | 31 |
The Church in a PostChristian Culture | 45 |
Form and Freedom in the Church | 59 |
The Practice of Community and Freedom | 69 |
The Threat of Silence | 77 |
Modem Man the Manipulator | 87 |
Revolutionary Christianity | 95 |
The Church Before the Watching World | 105 |
A Historical Critique of Theological Liberalism | 109 |
Adultery and ApostasyThe Bride and Bridegroom Theme | 125 |
Practicing Purity in the Visible Church | 143 |