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Articles and Messages by Francis Schaeffer

• No Little People, No Little Places

  As a Christian considers the possibility of being the Christian glorified (a topic I have discussed in True Spirituality), often his reaction is, "I am so limited. Surely it does not matter much whether I am walking as a creature glorified or not." Or, to put it in another way, "It is wonderful to be a Christian, but I am such a small person, so limited in talents - or energy or psychological strength or knowledge - that what I do is not really important." The Bible, however, has quite a different emphasis: With God there are no little people.

• The Great Evangelical Disaster: What Really Matters?

  Something happened during the last sixty years – something which cut the moral foundation out from under our culture. Devastating things have come in every area of culture, whether it be law or government, whether it is in the schools, our local communities or in the family. And these have happened within the lifetime of many who are reading this book. Our culture has been squandered and lost, and largely thrown away. Indeed, to call it a moral breakdown puts it mildly. Morality itself has been turned on its head with every form of moral perversion being praised and glorified in the media and the world of entertainment.

  How can we make sense of what has happened? In the main essay of this special edition Time offers an explanation. The essay, entitled "What really mattered?" suggests: "To determine what really mattered in this jumble [of events] seems to require a sense of something beyond the particulars." We will need, Time says, to discover the "idea characterizing [our] age."

• The Universe And Two Chairs

  "If there is to be a constructive revolution in the orthodox, evangelical church, we must comprehend and speak of the lostness of the lost, including the man without the Bible. As with Paul this must not be done with a cold orthodoxy but with deep compassion for our own kind. Finally we must add that these things cannot be done once for all, nor in our own humanistic effort; we must be in the believer’s chair moment by moment.

  Reformation and revival are related to God’s people sitting moment by moment in the believer’s chair. And with such reformation-revival will come constructive revolution in the evangelical, orthodox church. Even in the midst of death in the city, the evangelical church can have a really constructive revolution, a revolution that will shake it in all its parts and make it live before God, before the unseen world, and before the observing eyes of our post-Christian world."

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