The Idol of Personal Peace and Affluence (Schaeffer) [1of3]

I posted this three part series because it is such a horrible problem today, and it needs to be addressed. Francis Schaeffer addressed it in the best way I've seen so I wanted to share it with you all.

The idol of 'personal peace and affluence' is being served not only by those professing atheism and humanism, but also many who profess Jesus Christ. It is a damnable idol which is a product of humanism or a person being consumed with themselves. This idol as all idols needs to be abstained from.

I've posted several clips of Schaeffer's before, but they are all coming from the same source: his wonderful DVD documentary called "How Then Shall We Live". He took humanism and unbelief and showed how it has affected societies in different ways starting in the times of the Apostles. Here is how he broke down the ages:

I. The Roman Age
II. The Middle Ages
III. The Renaissance
IV. The Reformation
V. The Revolutionary Age
VI. The Scientific Age
VII. The Age of Non-Reason
VIII. The Age of Fragmentation
IX. The Age of Personal Peace and Affluence
X. Final Choices


You can get this series here:
http://tinyurl.com/32rpjv
It's a great documentary and has helped me grow much.

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[888plant]

I met him at Madison Square Garden.

[LaneCh]

I would have loved to.  I'm reading his complete works now. I highly recommend them.

[bberchin]

Schaeffer was a treasure and this series is wonderful. It should be tought in every church! To young people in particular!

[LaneCh]

I agree, Brett. I know I would have benefited and understood it if I would have heard it when I was younger. I think when it's said that we shouldn't show things like this to younger people because it would be "over their heads" it is just an excuse so the older people won't have to deal with the content of it for the most part.

[TheCelticChimp]

@jaffacec

The "idol" of evolution. Don't like reality, not to worry, God will massacre loads of people to change reality to something you find more palatable. One of the richest organisations on earth is the Catholic church... no wait don't bother. They aren't REAL Christians. Atheism is often associated with liberal thinking, liberals are always accused by conservatives of wanting to distribute wealth more evenly which is just unamerican dammit!. The Christian right hates any form of charity

[TheCelticChimp]

Professors who taught that life had no meaning are there are no fixed values :) What a tool.

This is the equivalent of a non-Christian claiming that pastors teach that human sacrifice is wonderful.

He is espousing such a crass, idiotic re-imagining of secular thought and history. This man is a testament to how poor an agument need be to be accepted by large groups of people who want the same conclusion.

[DazedSpy2]

him saying ninteen hundred and sixty ___ is really starting to bug me.

[bixntram]

Spoken like a true Christian.

[bixntram]

"Judge net lest ye be judged" -- Mr. Christslove. Not something I would expect a presumed Christian to say. I met the man, by the way. He didn't come across that way at the time, but he sure does in this video.

[TheChristsLove]

@bixntram He comes across as that to you. It's a personal problem you have. Not Schaeffer.

[ij11wilson]

Christians need to wake up and realize that for all the government has done, we are less safe & nearly bankrupt. The politicians are llars by and large. They will say anything to us to get elected. We need to look at voting records to see who really beleives what they talk about. This is where the truth of politicians character is.

[ij11wilson]

We wouldnt stand for one foreign military base in America, and we shouldnt be so arrogant to assume that other human beings would feel differently. 1 million Iraq women & children have died since our invasion of that country over 10 years ago. That "Christians" would endorse America being bogged down in a 10 year war that is spreading to nearly 5 additional countries, and not recognize that our immoral foreign policy is the driving factor-is repugnant.

[ij11wilson]

Ron Paul dares to point out to Christians that America's foreign policy of intervention into the affairs of nations is what is causing the blowback & retaliation against us. Ron Paul states that we should (especially Christians) seek to understand the motivations of others & why they strike us, to understand how to solve the problem. The only way to solve our problem is to quit invading countries & telling the people how to live

[ij11wilson]

Ron Paul reminds me of Schaeffer in this modern time...pointing to the truth of so many pressing issues we face, from the Federal Reserve Manipulation of the economy for the benefit of the few, to the corruption in both major poloitical parties, who endorse the same ideology in practivce, only they speak like they are different to the people to get elected/re-electected. Very obvious.