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Francis Schaeffer: “Aping the world’s wisdom…”

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P8QVEpbcBTg/Ry4YTJes2GI/AAAAAAAAAVE/k4-xKGN6QRo/s400/fs.bmpFrom a recent Crossway Books blog post:

Schaeffer’s following summary paragraph has been especially important (and convicting) to me and something that I pray will always be foundational to the work we do at Crossway.

“Is it not amazing,” Schaeffer writes, “though we know the power of the Holy Spirit can be ours, we still ape the world’s wisdom, trust its form of publicity, its noise, and imitate its ways in manipulating men! If we try to influence the world by using its methods, we are doing the Lord’s work in the flesh. . . . The key question is this: as we work for God in this fallen world, what are we trusting in? To trust in particular methods is to copy the world and to remove ourselves from the tremendous promise that we have something different — the power of the Holy Spirit rather than the power of human technique.”

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