“Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church’s ranks for real people, and have a hard task finding them.\u00a0 All too often, evangelicals are paper people.\u00a0 If we do not preach these things, talk about them to each other, and teach them carefully from the pulpit and in the Christian classroom, we cannot expect Christians so to act.<\/p>\n
This has always been important, but it is especially so today because we are surrounded by a world in which personality is increasingly eroded.\u00a0 If we, who have become God’s children, do not show Him to be personal in our lives, then in practice we are denying His existence, and He cannot be anything but grieved.” [print_link]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church’s ranks for real people, and have a hard task finding them.\u00a0 All too often, evangelicals are paper people.\u00a0 If we do not preach these things, talk about them to each other, and teach them carefully from the pulpit and in the Christian… <\/p>\n
\n…. Francis A. Schaeffer, The God Who is There<\/a> [1968]<\/p>\n