My father had all of the Francis Schaeffer L’Abri lectures on reel-to-reel tapes. I would lie beside him on Saturday mornings and listen for hours to lectures such as “Our Ash-Heap Lives”.
My father gave me the name Jeremiah because of the influence of “Death in the City” on him. He would tell me often, “Jeremiah is the prophet of our time.”
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been listening to a speaker at a conference and heard echoes of those Francis Schaeffer lectures from my childhood. Francis Schaeffer sits silently alongside the often quoted C. S. Lewis as one of the most influential Christian men in the 20th century.
Trevin Wax has gathered a number of reflections on Francis Schaeffer on the event of his 100th birthday.
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Jeremiah Fyffe • BibleTogether.com