"Intergenerational youth ministry" may sound like an oxymoron, but think about it - what can be more normal than other generations being a part of ministry to young people?
I get a fair amount of email. Some of it is a blessing and quite encouraging. Some not so much in either category. But the ones that break my heart are the emails from wounded and deeply discouraged people who have been devastated by life, the church and especially other churchgoers. I try to be encouraging. I try to offer perspective. But I wish I could do more. I wish I could help those battered and limping fellow travelers find the abundant life that I wrote about recently.
The more I reflected on it, the more I realized any pastor coming into a new church would give a month's salary for these three gifts.
Francis Schaeffer was a small man whose giant passion for truth, for reality, for God, and for the needs of people made him a key shaper of modern Christianity, larger than any label put on him. This new, comprehensive biograph illuminates the complex person and vivid teaching that made the man.