I found this, I believe it will minister something to someone. Read prayerfully. Men today do not perhaps burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Catholic Church any longer put it on the [forbidden] index, as it once did. But men destroy it in the form of exegesis; they destroy it in the way they deal with it. They destroy it by not reading it as written in normal literary form, by ignoring historical- grammatical exegesis, by changing the Bibles own perspective of itself as propositional revelation in space and time, in history, by saying only the spiritual portions of the Bible have authority for us. I would say to you who call yourselves Bible-believing Christians, if you see the Word of God diminished as it is in our day and are not moved to tears and indignation, I wonder if you have any comprehension of the day in which we live. If we as Bible-believing Christians can see Gods Word, Gods verbalilzed, propositional communication, treated as it is so often treated and are not filled with sorrow and do not cry out, But dont you realize the end thereof?-I wonder: do we love His Word? If we fight our philosophic battles, our artistic battles, our scientific battles, our battles in literature, our battles in drama, without emotional involvement, do we really love God? How can we do it without being moved as Jeremiah was moved? How can we speak of judgment and yet not stand like the weeping prophet with tears? Taken from The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer , Vol. 4, Death in the City, pp. 244-245.
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