"How beautiful Christianity is - first, because of the sparkling quality of its intellectual answers, but second, because of the beautiful quality of its human and personal answers. And these are to be rich and beautiful. A crabbed Christianity is less than orthodox Christianity...There must be orthodox doctrine, true. But there must be orthodox practice of those doctrines, including orthodoxy in the human relationships...
God means Christianity to be fun. There is to be a reality of love and communication in the Christian-to-Christian relationship, individually and corporately, which is completely and truly personal." "True Spirituality", Francis Schaeffer
What I loved about listening to Dr. Schaeffer speak was how he connected words like, intellectual, orthodox with beauty, personal and fun. It revolutionized my dry joyless fundamentalism.
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Thanks for sharing! I think that there is a way to be inbetween, too. Being classically orthodox in our Judeo-Christian beliefs doesn't mean we have to be wet wood.
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