Francis Schaeffer On Christians’ Responsibility For Politics

Francis Schaeffer was a major, prolific evangelical author and thinker decades ago. I remember reading his books as a young man.

He is interviewed here by Pat Robertson. Robertson, of course, was mocked and vilified by the left for many years. The two men speak in this video as if the cultural left had made great inroads because of the failures of Christians. The situation is now much worse, of course.

But Schaeffer has some fascinating comments on the topic of Christians’ responsibility for government and politics. He argues the lordship of Christ over the totality of life:

Francis Schaffer in 1982 answering the question of what has gone wrong with evangelicals that allowed the Christian consensus to be lost in our nation:

"I think a false view of spirituality, a Platonic view of spirituality which follows Plato, but certainly isn't biblical. And… pic.twitter.com/ZzDFGydusg

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