Window on the World - The Shelter (L'Abri)

This marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of L'Abri Fellowship. It is appropriate that we recognize it because Francis Schaeffer was born and raised in Philadelphia, in Germantown, and has had close ties to Tenth Church. He worked with Dr. Boice on the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy and when Tenth Church was received into the Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Synod, it was Francis Schaeffer who preached the sermon here, welcoming us into the denomination.

Excerpt: 'In spring of 1968 I was a graduate student in Paris. My faith had shattered, I was angry with God. I knew that there was a place in Switzerland called "L'Abri" and a man called Francis Schaeffer, who might be helpful. When I arrived and poured out my case against God, my listener replied,"It's no mistake that you came here."

"How do you know it's no mistake?"

"Because we don't advertise this place, but we pray every day that the Lord will bring along the people of His choice and keep all others away, so if you came, it was no mistake."'

The Window on the World is our weekly opportunity to examine our culture from the vantage point of biblical Christianity.

Many of these are now published in 'My Father's World: Meditations on Christianity and Culture', 2002, and 'He Speaks to Me Everywhere', 2004, both by Philip Graham Ryken, P&R Publishing.

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