Humans make ripples that go on for eternity. Through his writing, preaching, and counseling, Schaeffer left a deep, wide, and true mark on the world. These books were timely, biblical, and compelling. It was the first of more than twenty books he would write before he died in 1984 at age seventy-two. The God Who Is There was published when Schaeffer was fifty-six years old. The history of evangelicalism in the twentieth century cannot be written without careful attention to his body of work. This smallish man with a high-pitched voice was the mentor I never met. It is no cliché to say the book changed my life for the better and helped define my calling. This was Christianity with backbone, brain, muscle, guts, and heart. He courageously ranged over philosophy, theology, painting, poetry, and all things cultural to demonstrate that the Christian worldview offers the best answers to life’s deepest questions. The book was The God Who Is There: Speaking Christianity into the Twentieth Century by Francis Schaeffer. I was back in school, trying to get my intellectual bearings as a fledgling and intellectually confused Christian. In the fall of 1976, I bought a medium-sized paperback book with an odd abstract cover in the University of Oregon bookstore in Eugene. For further information or to subscribe to the C HRISTIAN R ESEARCH J OURNAL go to: The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. Only when we learn both of these things will we be able to communicate the gospel message in meaningful ways.This article first appeared in the C HRISTIAN R ESEARCH J OURNAL, volume 39, number 04 (2016). 11) This requires Christians to know the language and the worldview of the culture in which we live.
"Every generation of Christians has this problem of learning how to speak meaningfully to its own age." (p. What is true for our hypothetical traveler is true in a similar way for Christians living in a secular, godless world. Only when a man has learned the language and the worldview of a people will he be able to communicate with those people in a meaningful way. However, in addition to learning the language, this hypothetical traveler would also need to learn "the thought-forms of the people to whom he speaks" (p.
11) This language learning would certainly include vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and anything else that might be involved in written and spoken communication. "If a man goes overseas for any length of time we would expect him to learn the language of the country to which he is going." (p. Author: Francis Schaeffer Publisher: IVP Date: 1968 / 2006 Pages: 121
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